The Cliff Walk A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found eBook Don J Snyder
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Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, and what seemed like a secure middle-class future. But then Snyder lost his chance at tenure -- and, all of a sudden, he was out of a job.
The Cliff Walk is a moving, clear-eyed account of Snyder's agonizing loss and what it feels like to fall, rung by rung, down the socio-economic ladder. Snyder chronicles the denial and disbelief he went through as his hopes of finding another teaching job faded after being rejected for ninety positions. He explains how each painful change -- selling his house, buying groceries with food stamps -- reminded him how much he and his family had taken for granted in their previous life. And he describes how he finally found new hope in a job on a home construction crew in Maine. Working outside for ten hours a day through a vicious winter taught Snyder about his own cowardice and the lies he had come to believe about what a professional life of hard work entitled him to.
Written with precision and elegance, The Cliff Walk captures the depth of one family's love and speaks to anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to be out of a job and out in the cold.
The Cliff Walk A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found eBook Don J Snyder
I had a similar experience after losing what I thought was my career and identity. This book brings hopeful reality to many who believe their identity is in their work.Product details
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The Cliff Walk A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found eBook Don J Snyder Reviews
While it started out interesting and bringing the reader into his life of hurdles, I ended up feeling he was too self absorbed to be an inspiration.
Great Read!
Don Synder's memoir of how he turned lemons into lemonade is so wonderfully written, engrossing and self-truthful, warts and all, it is utterly uplifting for all of us who have experienced "enormous changes at the last minute." I didn't want the book to end...and I was left wishing I could meet Don Snyder. It's the best of this genre I've read since "Stop-Time."
There is something very missing here. This author is not really revealing his true self.
This is about the hard-hitting reality of losing a job you love and not ever being able to get back into the field ever again no matter how hard you try. Overall the writing was well-done and it was interesting, but I was hoping to feel more enlightened about how to reconcile this type of life experience. However, the writer conveys the sense that part of his identity was lost with the teaching job, and though he did learn the benefits of a different kind of life, he still seemed broken in some ways at the end of the story. I was hoping the ending would be more uplifting. But overall, good writing and very interesting.
Good book. Was recommended to me by my sister and brother-in-law.
The absolute best cautionary tale I have ever read. Don Snyder's fantastic surreal account of his pursuit of the "American Dream" in our present chaotic economy is a contemporary " American Tragedy". Words to heed; one has to have multi & various job skill sets to keep one's family afloat in such vicissitudes.A Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times strikes home. This is not the society we were raised in, " The Salad Days" after WW2.
I had a similar experience after losing what I thought was my career and identity. This book brings hopeful reality to many who believe their identity is in their work.
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