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Work in Progress : Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest.

Work in Progress : Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest.

Book 2026

In this humorous memoir, New York Times bestselling author Father James Martin, SJ shares summer by summer, job by job, how a former paperboy, lawnmower, busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, waiter, bank teller, assembly-line worker, corporate tool became a Jesuit priest. Work in Progress is a snapshot of several years--from a boy, then a teenager, and finally a young adult--of being thrown into a series of jobs that Father Martin had zero training....