The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

The Book reflects an author's imagination about workplace that is an accumulation of happiness and hazards which a common man experiences in his day to day life. The book takes the readers to the journey that has various stations which are related to varied occupations ranging from rocket science to biscuit manufacture, accountancy to art. These various occupations relate to the journey of the job occupants who are either experiencing their jobs as satisfying or are defeating the purpose of their existence. The reader is able to taste the life of an ordinary workplace and escalates their experience by escalating their imaginations to a totally different world.