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Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory

Mickey Hess

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Description:Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is about choosing what you want to be when you grow up, and finding out you still have to wait tables on the weekends.When Mickey Hess discovers that he can list his experience as a college instructor on an application to work as an ice cream man -- and still get the job -- he starts to wonder if being a professor has lost its prestige. With college enrollment and tuition costs at record highs, universities are staffing their courses with part-time instructors who commute between different schools to make a living. Big Wheel follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader. The jobs begin out of financial necessity, but become more of a diversion from a teaching career that Hess fears he is starting to take far more seriously than this employers are taking him."Mickey Hess will make you laugh. His book will ring very true for that segment of the population (statistically growing) that can't quite let go of school once college is over and can't quite settle into the career path that leads to middle age and death, without having just a few existential yucks beforehand. However, even if you went straight from university to marriage and the nine-to-five, you can still enjoy this book as a look at how the other half struggles….buy the book and tell your friends they'll have to buy their own. It's worth it." —Curled Up With A Good Book"Big Wheel is a rollicking adventure of Hess’s early years trying to stay afloat in the world of college teaching….It’s a light-hearted book dealing with that period in life when you have to go from being a reckless youth to an adult, without sacrificing anything…what I like most about Hess’s writing is that he’s funny and self-aware enough to make great observations about himself and others…highly recommended." —The Sly Oyster"Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is an absolute winner, exploring the difficulties and trials of finding a job, facing a lifetime of work, and searching for meaning somewhere within that work. Mickey Hess writes with truthful insights and rip-roaring hilarity." —Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned"Like White Noise, without the angst or postmodernism" —Al Burian, author of Burn Collector"Mickey Hess has taken his experiences as a struggling writing instructor and made them into a wry, picaresque novel. Thoroughly humorous." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer"Underground publishing advocate Mickey Hess uses deadpan humor and pungent observations to describe the price he pays for pursuing a passion—teaching college students how to write." —Chicago Reader, which awarded Big Wheel "Critic’s Choice""Big Wheel is the story of a young part-time college lecturer and his friends, and their relationship to working. Mickey Hess is a passionate, funny man who loves to teach writing to his students, encouraging creativity with sometimes very unconventional ideas (playing basketball with baby doll heads comes to mind)." —Christopher Taylor, Boxcar Books"Mickey Hess’s story of a year in the life of an English instructor brings to mind Whitman’s celebration of himself as an observer and mirror image of life’s parade in Song of Myself. He takes on varied odd jobs—ice cream man; improv comedian; volunteer at a Billy Graham crusade revival—for both the money and what he finds to be a requirement of teaching: experience" -Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor"The book is insightful, but also funny as hell … made me laugh out loud. Mickey has great comedic timing with a deadpan delivery. Highly recommended." —Xerography Debt"Got my attention … I found myself nodding (and smiling)." —Mary Beth Marklein, USA TodayWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory. To get started finding Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is about choosing what you want to be when you grow up, and finding out you still have to wait tables on the weekends.When Mickey Hess discovers that he can list his experience as a college instructor on an application to work as an ice cream man -- and still get the job -- he starts to wonder if being a professor has lost its prestige. With college enrollment and tuition costs at record highs, universities are staffing their courses with part-time instructors who commute between different schools to make a living. Big Wheel follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader. The jobs begin out of financial necessity, but become more of a diversion from a teaching career that Hess fears he is starting to take far more seriously than this employers are taking him."Mickey Hess will make you laugh. His book will ring very true for that segment of the population (statistically growing) that can't quite let go of school once college is over and can't quite settle into the career path that leads to middle age and death, without having just a few existential yucks beforehand. However, even if you went straight from university to marriage and the nine-to-five, you can still enjoy this book as a look at how the other half struggles….buy the book and tell your friends they'll have to buy their own. It's worth it." —Curled Up With A Good Book"Big Wheel is a rollicking adventure of Hess’s early years trying to stay afloat in the world of college teaching….It’s a light-hearted book dealing with that period in life when you have to go from being a reckless youth to an adult, without sacrificing anything…what I like most about Hess’s writing is that he’s funny and self-aware enough to make great observations about himself and others…highly recommended." —The Sly Oyster"Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is an absolute winner, exploring the difficulties and trials of finding a job, facing a lifetime of work, and searching for meaning somewhere within that work. Mickey Hess writes with truthful insights and rip-roaring hilarity." —Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned"Like White Noise, without the angst or postmodernism" —Al Burian, author of Burn Collector"Mickey Hess has taken his experiences as a struggling writing instructor and made them into a wry, picaresque novel. Thoroughly humorous." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer"Underground publishing advocate Mickey Hess uses deadpan humor and pungent observations to describe the price he pays for pursuing a passion—teaching college students how to write." —Chicago Reader, which awarded Big Wheel "Critic’s Choice""Big Wheel is the story of a young part-time college lecturer and his friends, and their relationship to working. Mickey Hess is a passionate, funny man who loves to teach writing to his students, encouraging creativity with sometimes very unconventional ideas (playing basketball with baby doll heads comes to mind)." —Christopher Taylor, Boxcar Books"Mickey Hess’s story of a year in the life of an English instructor brings to mind Whitman’s celebration of himself as an observer and mirror image of life’s parade in Song of Myself. He takes on varied odd jobs—ice cream man; improv comedian; volunteer at a Billy Graham crusade revival—for both the money and what he finds to be a requirement of teaching: experience" -Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor"The book is insightful, but also funny as hell … made me laugh out loud. Mickey has great comedic timing with a deadpan delivery. Highly recommended." —Xerography Debt"Got my attention … I found myself nodding (and smiling)." —Mary Beth Marklein, USA TodayWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory. To get started finding Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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