It has taken me a decade to complete this work. After spending months writing my Ph.D. thesis, I was in no mood back then to write a single line about this story, but my partner, Jodie, persuaded me to do so...and I am ever thankful for her foresight. Indeed, when I was challenged with the idea of writing about trying to find work in the last miles of my Ph.D., the thought of staring at a computer screen to write a book on my "job-hunting...