Trophy Husband: A Survival Guide to Working at Home - Hardcover

Brewer, Steve

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9780826329202: Trophy Husband: A Survival Guide to Working at Home

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826329209 ISBN 13: 9780826329202

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2003

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More than 20 million Americans now work out of home offices, and Steve Brewer is one of them. A novelist, columnist, and the father of two sons, Brewer has turned his Albuquerque Tribune column on house husbandry into a book that reveals the reason working at home has become so popular: telecommuting gives Baby Boomers a way to wear sweatpants all day.

The impossible mixture of fax machines and jelly sandwiches, meeting deadlines and getting kids to soccer games that is the world of the housewife or househusband has never been funnier than when Brewer tackles it. And unlike his literary ancestors Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry, Brewer is gender neutral. Sweatpants are for everybody. He understands that anyone working at home, anyone living in the kingdom of Greater Sweatpantsia, is struggling with the mystery of adulthood. "Working at home is all about freedom," he explains. "We want to create our own work environments, set our own hours, produce at our own pace. We want Oprah breaks. We want to bake brownies during business hours and have them all eaten before the kids get home from school."

This book will confirm your suspicion that you can yak on the phone, slurp French Roast, and swap e-mail jokes at home as well as at an office. It is ideal for readers who have baskets of laundry next to their desks and for people who would like to. It's for everyone who longs to work in sweatpants, regardless of whether they still own clothing labeled "Dry Clean Only."

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The mixture of faxes and jelly sandwiches, deadlines and kids soccer games that is the world of the working parent has never been funnier than when Steve Brewer tackles it. A novelist, columnist, and a father, he has turned his column on house husbandry into a creatively humorous book.

About the Author:

Steve Brewer spent twenty-two years in the newspaper business, working in his native Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and California, before becoming a work-at-home dad. He is the author of eight mystery novels. Since 1998, his weekly humor column, "The Home Front," has appeared in The Albuquerque Tribune and other newspapers around the country. He now resides in Redding, California.

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