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4/5 stars *Spoiler alert!* “The only way we are able to endure pain is by holding on to the knowledge that it will someday end.”   Working Girls is both a sat irical and earnest take on the self-help genre, focusing on careers and the workplace, by my favorite drag queens, Trixie Mattel, and Katya Zamolodchikova . It focuses on the job search, how to navigate the workplace when hired, and when to know when to call it quits. There are also personal anecdotes from the queens themselves about the jobs they held before becoming famous on RuPaul’s Drag Race .   Katya: Trixie: One of my favorite sections covered office email language. I found the translations for various things said in a professional email, like “let’s circle back” and, my favorite, “noted.” It is like the Anger Translator from Sat urd a y Night Live but applied to the absolutely maddening exercise workplace emails can be. Not to mention Teams chats and the universal frustration that ensues when Teams needs to loa...