Hint to recent grads or those about to graduate soon: While your well-intentioned friends and family will inevitably give you books like Oh, the Places You'll Go! and How to Win Friends to ready you for the real world, you might want to add Megan Hustad’s How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work to your summer reading. Hustad pored over hundreds of years of “success literature” to compile the best......

Megan Hustad's new book How to be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work should really be subtitled "Ways to not suck at your first job." She combs through hundreds of self-help, success and business books to glean the best advice she could find for newbies in the workforce. (And even those of us who've been there awhile can always afford to learn a thing or two as well.) So LAist posed a......