- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: MTV Books (June 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671002023
- ISBN-13: 978-0671002022
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,831,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A guide for young people who are setting out on their own explains everything needed to survive in the real world, from getting a job to signing an apartment lease.
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a guide to life for the MTV generation,
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This review is from: Mtv's Now What?!: A Guide to Jobs, Money, and the Real World (Paperback)
For those kids whose substitute parents were the television and mainly MTV, this book picks up where the broadcast leaves off and further parents the child in the ways of the world. Getting a job, keeping a job, putting up the crap from co-workers, managing money, paying bills and more.Supposedly a guide for the "real world," this tough-love guide tries to tell you how it is and how to get by after you manage to leave college and your parents finally kick you out of the house. Like the pop-generation TV network and its programs, the book is matter of fact about ups and downs in life and offers no guidance in morals or even a pat on the back. No love, just self-affirmation and a perpetuation of the feeling of entitlement that this "lost" generation is so often encouraged to foster. The book does have some valuable, useful information, but it is in many ways in a vacuum... peppered with photos of pop icons does not make this a warm, fuzzy guide and it can be coma-inducing if you try to read it cover to cover.
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a guide to life for the MTV generation,
By Shelley Gammon "Geek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mtv's Now What?!: A Guide to Jobs, Money, and the Real World (Paperback)
For those kids whose substitute parents were the television and mainly MTV, this book picks up where the broadcast leaves off and further parents the child in the ways of the world. Getting a job, keeping a job, putting up the crap from co-workers, managing money, paying bills and more.Supposedly a guide for the "real world," this tough-love guide tries to tell you how it is and how to get by after you manage to leave college and your parents finally kick you out of the house. Like the pop-generation TV network and its programs, the book is matter of fact about ups and downs in life and offers no guidance in morals or even a pat on the back. No love, just self-affirmation and a perpetuation of the feeling of entitlement that this "lost" generation is so often encouraged to foster. The book does have some valuable, useful information, but it is in many ways in a vacuum... peppered with photos of pop icons does not make this a warm, fuzzy guide and it can be coma-inducing if you try to read it cover to cover. |
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