Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I te rā katoa. Nā Joanna Biggs i tuhi. (Serpent's Tail £14.99) He mea rongonui, e kore e warewaretia, te pātai a te kaitoi a Philip Larkin: 'He aha ahau i tuku ai i te toad ki te mahi / Squat i runga i toku ora?' E hiahia ana ia kia '... toa rawa / Ki te karanga Stuff to koutou reti! - engari i mohio e kore ia e. Te ata kawhe: Ko Ingarangi e mahi ana. Ko te mana o te iwa ki te rima e pā ana ki te moni (i te akoranga), engari ano hoki e pā ana ki te uara matatika: mahi tatou no te mea e mohio ana tatou e kia 'to tatou taimaha' i roto i te tira o te pakanga o te hapori. I ngā ata katoa, i ngā tāone, i ngā taone nui katoa o te ao, ka rere mai ngā tāngata ki ō rātou wāhi mahi, ko ētahi e akiakihia ana e te whakaaro o te mahi, ko ētahi e te mauiui, ko ētahi e te hiahia, ko ētahi e te hiahia. He pono ko te mahi, ehara i te aroha, e huri ai te ao? He koha pai ta Joanna Biggs ki to tatou matauranga mo te ao mahi i roto i ona momo katoa - ehara i te mea na roto i te wetewete hapori (whakawhetai ki te Atua), engari na roto i nga korero a nga tangata pono kua uiuia e ia puta noa i te whenua. Mā te pānui i tēnei pukapuka e whakamahara mai ai ki ahau he pēhea te nui o te huringa o ngā wā mai i tōku whakatupuranga i whakarere i te kura, i te wānanga rānei i ngā tau o te tekau mā ono tekau, kāore he āwangawanga mō te kimi mahi. I waimarie mātou. E tino mārama ana a Joanna Biggs, mō te tokomaha o te iwi i tēnei rā, 'kaore e mau tonu te ariā he pai te ora o te mahi pai.' Ka wehewehea e Biggs ana kaimahi ki ngā kāwai whakamīharo, e whakakotahi ana i ngā mahi rerekē i runga i to rātau mahi whānui. Na te upoko 'Making' ka hoatu ki a tatou he kaihanga rihi, he kaihanga hu me (ae) he karetao, e whakaatu ana ki a tatou ki ona kaipūkaha tiaki. Kei roto i te "te mahi" he kaimahi moepuku, e rua nga kaitautoko, he kaitohutohu pokapū waea me tetahi kaitohutohu motuhake. Ko te hunga 'Tūnga' he kaitiaki, he rangatira o te ope taua me te kaitiaki, i te mea ko te hunga 'Tuhinga' he kaiwhakahaere kamupene, he whaea noho-i-te-whare (he mea whakaaweawe, ko tera) me te rangatira tuku iho. Ka tuhituhi a Biggs: 'I rongo tonu au i te aroha o te iwi ki a rātau mahi, ā, i ētahi wā ka āwangawanga tēnei ki ahau' He whānui te whānuitanga o te pukapuka. Ka tutaki mātou ki te hunga e hoko ana, e whakangahau ana, e whakaaro ana, e āwangawanga ana - tae atu ki tētahi rōpū pākiki o ngā tāngata e whakakotahihia ana e Biggs i raro i te 'Tīmata': he...
E kōrero ana a Joanna Biggs i ngā kōrero o ngā tāngata tūturu i uiuia e ia i te UK. He koha tino pai tana ki to tatou matauranga mo te ao mahi. E whakaae ana ia i tumanako ia kia nui ake te ātete ki te huarahi e whakahaerehia ai te hapori.