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Stories of career sabotage

Michaela McGuire
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Subjects

Memoirs

Published

1 September 2009

ISBN

9780522855890

Pages

208

Subjects

Memoirs

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Apply Within

Stories of career sabotage

Michaela McGuire
When Michaela McGuire was hired by a federal MP eight months before the 2007 election, she didn't know exactly what to expect. She probably should have, because before that she had worked in the highrollers' room of a casino and had overseen lap dances in a strip club. It would become another novelty job to add to her brief but colourful résumé.
Michaela has advised a Liberal MP to campaign for his seat rather than get a haircut, cleaned ashtrays and helped organise a senior partner's stamp collection at a prestigious law firm. Whatever the contributing factors to her brilliant career, foresight was not one of them.
When Michaela McGuire was hired by a federal MP eight months before the 2007 election, she didn't know exactly what to expect. She probably should have, because before that she had worked in the highrollers' room of a casino and had overseen lap dances in a strip club. It would become another novelty job to add to her brief but colourful résumé.
Michaela has advised a Liberal MP to campaign for his seat rather than get a haircut, cleaned ashtrays and helped organise a senior partner's stamp collection at a prestigious law firm. Whatever the contributing factors to her brilliant career, foresight was not one of them.

Michaela McGuire

Michaela McGuire

Michaela McGuire is the author of Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage, A Story of Grief and Last Bets. McGuire writes a weekly blog for The Monthly and co-curates and hosts the bestselling literary salon Women of Letters.

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