A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, it requires very little thinking, and, ideally, it involves sitting in a chair. The recruiter has just the thing. As one mysteriously specialized, surreal, even supernatural gig gives way to another--writing trivia for an absurdly competitive cracker company; punching tickets for a purportedly haunted park--it becomes increasingly clear that our heroine is not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful. And when she finally discovers a true alternative to the daily grind, it comes with a price.-- Back cover.