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Working
Author: Dan Holohan

Working - Tales of life, love, mechanical mayhem . . . and getting even! — Do you like a good story? Here are 41 of them - just for you. They're all based on incidents that actually happened. Well, sort of. I got to strech them a little, but not that much. I think you'll like these characters. Some of them, you've probably met at one time or anot... more »her.

Put a copy of Working in your the bathroom. You won't be sorry.

Dan Holohan

Reader Reviews:

"I enjoyed Working so much because it took me back to a time of my youth and upbringing. Dan's writing makes it easy to visualize the words that he paints on his colorful canvas." - John R. Hall, Business Management Editor, The Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News

"What business are you in? You think it?s heating, hydronics, plumbing or the sanitary arts? Although I?m a ?Rent-A-Geek? by trade, you and I are in the same business. Or should be. Don?t believe it? What do computer consulting and pipes have in common you ask?

Perhaps a read of Dan Holohan?s book Working - Tales of life, love, mechanical mayhem . . . and getting even! would provide an answer. This is a compendium of short stories compiled from bits and pieces from Dan?s extensive experience in the heating business. Although none of the stories are necessarily true events, they are amalgams and representations of true-life experiences that Dan has observed through the years.

There are 40 stories, each about 5 pages, written in the clear and witty Holohan style. The stories range through the clever such as ?Buddy?s Beaters? wherein a heating contractor comes up with a unique way to get his deadbeat customers to pay; to ?The neighborly thing in which a certain ?The Duke? passes his vast knowledge of everything to his neighbors, mostly involving pouring Oatmeal into what ever?s broken, including leaking boilers; ?Phelan on the phone? details how to create telephone tag, to assure you never have to talk to a client.

Each story takes a bite out of the contractor or the client or the manufacturer, or the poor slob who works for them. Some stories have a wonderful sense of sarcasm (?The power of negative thinking?), some poignantly funny (?So thorough. So quiet!?, ?Katie Delaney?s marshmallow roast?), others are just plain clever and funny (?Bailey?s great experiment?, ?Flott?s bold move?; ?Doc Feeney and the Trickle-Down Principle?).

In all, Dan?s tales present real and recognizable characters and situations, many of which could be us in any of the roles. Recognizing ourselves in these stories is what I believe Holohan is trying to show in the diversity of stories in ?Working?. It may even show you what business you?re in, or, perhaps, should be in.

ISBN: 317695
Publication Date: 9/1999
Pages: 194
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Publisher: Dan Holohan Associates, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
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