WHO THE F*CK AM I NOW?: 25 Years of Work Changed Me

You spend years learning how to become good at work. Nobody tells you what happens when work becomes part of who you are.At twenty-something, Raymond just needed a job.Twenty-five years later, he knows how to walk into a crisis without panicking, read a room before anyone speaks, deliver bad news without detonating a meeting, manage people, survive restructurings, and make decisions with incomplete information.He also checks email when nobody asked him to. Turns conversations into problems to solve. Measures his worth by whether somebody needs him. And occasionally wonders when all those useful professional habits stopped being things he did and became parts of who he was.WHO THE F*CK AM I NOW? is a brutally funny, painfully familiar account of what twenty-five years of corporate life can do to a person who gets good at it.This is not a book about quitting your job.It is not an anti-work manifesto.And there are no seven steps to finding your authentic self.Instead, Raymond looks back at the promotions he thought would change everything, the managers he misunderstood, the people he failed, the colleagues he still remembers, the friendships that disappeared when the office did, the restructurings that reduced human beings to spreadsheet rows, and the arrival of AI just as he had finally become the experienced person in the room.Some of work changed him for the better.Some of it cost more than he noticed at the time.And some of it became so deeply embedded that he can no longer tell where the job ends and he begins.Funny, uncomfortable, self-deprecating and deliberately unresolved, WHO THE F*CK AM I NOW? is for anyone who has ever looked at their job title and wondered: If nobody needed me tomorrow, who the fuck would I be?