Americans talk about their jobs

(Sorry, but I have to post this entry once more because the first one is brimful of mistakes)

This posts, as you may have guessed from the picture above, will be all about the book "Gig-Americans talk about their jobs".

Why do I want to write about it?

Ever since I first read a few excerpts from "Gig", I have been captivated by its topic namely the unscripted stories of American people going on about their jobs. This book has something illuminating as well as something charming about it.
The real stars of the book are the interviewers and the editors who have done a wonderful job tracking down people from all walks of life.
"Gig" lets the people from the street be heard and unearths a often forgotten truth-work defines who we are.

Anyway, each week I'm going to write entries about a job description in "Gig" that intrigued me, saddened me or made me explode with laughter.

This week let me introduce you to the complex world of software engineers, or, to the world of Dzeudet Hadziosmanovic.
Dzeudet emigrated to the USA from Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) during the war for independence in former Yugoslavia as software.
For me it was absorbing to gain an insight into the world of software engineering thanks to the text. Dzeudet says that all of the s. engineering market is in American hands and that his work is basically to translate real world into numbers, which is hard to do most of the time, but even harder it is to complete software as you must imagine every single thing the user could do on a keyboard. (especially if he/ she is as clumsy as me)

What I also found remarkable about the text is the way Dzeudet juxtaposes Bosnia and the USA which are a far cry from each other. While in Bosnia he worked less and earned less, in America the situation is the opposite. In Bosnia he was living under socialism and health services and education were free and the retirement secured. None of it is the case in capitalist America which is for him more efficient, but takes too much of your life.

Still, judging by his own example, he holds the American Dream still to be living.