eBook Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab ePub

In her late twenties and after a series of unsatisfying office jobs, Melissa Plaut decided she was going to stop worrying about what to do with the rest of her life I had always thought about driving a cab, just thought it’d be interesting and different, a good way to make money. But it always seemed like a fleeting whim, a funny idea, something I would never actually do.

Having driven a cab myself back in the seventies in Boston, I know what she went through and just how tough the job . I would recommend this book to everyone, but in particular to those who use cabs often. Read what a driver feels and then examine your behavior while you are in the back seat.

Having driven a cab myself back in the seventies in Boston, I know what she went through and just how tough the job really is. The author well describes the terrible drivers, the constant hustle, the tense interactions with the police and the lunatic customers that seem to be everywhere. The author describes the day to day tidbits of driving, interspersed with her own personal demons about the job. It is really one of those jobs you can love and hate at the same time. It may open your eyes a little.

Автор: Plaut Melissa Название: Hack: How I Stopped Worrying about . Martin Plaut& book offers a glimpse into a relatively young nation marred by a stifling dictatorship.

Hack traces Plauts first two years behind the wheel of a yellow cab traveling the 6,400 miles of New York City streets.

Hack was merged with this page. In her late 20s, Plaut decided to honor a long-held secret ambition by becoming a New York City taxi driver. With wit and insight, she recreates the crazy parade of humanity that passes through her cab and shows how this grueling work provides her with a greater sense of self. 31 people like this topic.

Hack traces Plaut’s first two years behind the wheel of a yellow cab traveling the 6,400 miles of New York City . Melissa Plaut was born in 1975 and grew up in the suburbs of New York City

Hack traces Plaut’s first two years behind the wheel of a yellow cab traveling the 6,400 miles of New York City streets. Melissa Plaut was born in 1975 and grew up in the suburbs of New York City. After college, she held a series of office jobs until, at the age of twenty-nine, she began driving a yellow cab. A year later she started writing New York Hack (newyorkhack. com), a blog about her experiences behind the wheel. Within a few months, the blog was receiving several thousand hits a day. Melissa Plaut lives in Brooklyn.

Her subsequent book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab was published by Villard (a division of Random House) in 2007

Her subsequent book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab was published by Villard (a division of Random House) in 2007. At the time of publication, women made up only about 200 of the 40,000 cab drivers in NYC. She has written for The New York Times, The Huffington. Post, and has had essays air on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Weekend America

Hack : How I Stopped Worrying about What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab. by Melissa Plaut. I had always thought about driving a cab, just thought it'd be interesting and different, a good way to make money. But it always seemed like a fleeting whim, a funny idea, something I would never actually d. In her late twenties and after a series of unsatisfying office jobs, Melissa Plaut decided she was going to stop worrying about what to do with the rest of her life and focus on what she was going to do next.

Melissa Plaut's Hack is an interesting and entertaining read. Plaut also examines the ideas of how to figure out what to do with one's life, but that stream of thought is never resolved, somewhat appropriately. There's not a big conflict and resolution in the book, but rather a general overview of what it's like driving a taxi in New York City for a couple years. Plaut also examines the ideas of how to figure out what to do with one's life, but that stream of thought is never resolved, somewhat appropriately