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"BECAUSE RENT EXISTS!"

Juan Rodulfo's New Book Turns the Absurdity of Job Interviews Into a Hilarious Survival Guide

ORLANDO, FL — August 27, 2026 — What if job interviews aren't really about discovering the "real you," but about successfully performing the version of yourself that corporate America wants to meet?

Author Juan Rodulfo answers that question in his new book, Why Do You Want to Work Here? Because Rent Exists!: 100 Stupid Interview Questions and the Lies We Tell to Survive Them, published by Editorial Aussie Trading.

A hilarious, brutally honest field guide to surviving modern job interviews, the book decodes 100 corporate traps so readers can navigate the hiring process, protect their boundaries, keep their dignity—and, hopefully, get paid.

Rodulfo takes aim at the strange rituals of modern hiring: five-year predictions, carefully disguised weaknesses, corporate loyalty tests, personality questions, salary lowballs, unpaid consulting assignments, "mandatory fun," and the countless ways candidates are expected to prove that a job they applied for is their lifelong dream.

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But this isn't simply a book about making fun of HR.

It teaches readers how to decode the game.

For each absurd interview scenario, Rodulfo presents three perspectives:

THE POLITE CORPORATE LIE — what the interviewer expects to hear.

THE HONEST INNER MONOLOGUE — what the candidate is actually thinking.

THE PRAGMATIC TRANSLATION — how to respond strategically while maintaining personal boundaries.

The result is part career survival guide, part workplace satire, and part commentary on the increasingly theatrical nature of employment.

From the "Future Oracle" and "Humblebrag Olympics" to "Corporate Stockholm Syndrome," "Psychological Warfare," "Free Consulting," "Bait and Switch," and "Red Flag Detector" questions, the book exposes the contradictions behind the modern hiring process.

At its core, Rodulfo delivers a simple message: employment is a commercial transaction, not a sacred blood pact. Candidates sell their skills; employers purchase those skills. Understanding that reality can help job seekers approach interviews with more confidence, awareness, and humor.

With its sharp observations and highly relatable scenarios, the book is ideal for job seekers, professionals, recent graduates, career changers, recruiters, HR professionals, and anyone who has ever walked out of an interview wondering, "What just happened?"

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Why Do You Want to Work Here? Because Rent Exists!: 100 Stupid Interview Questions and the Lies We Tell to Survive Them

Author: Juan Rodulfo
Publisher: Editorial Aussie Trading
Paperback: 192 pages | ISBN 9798256203207 | MSRP $24.99
Hardcover: ISBN 9798256203214 | MSRP $28.99
eBook: 154 pages | ISBN 979-8-2562-0322-1

Available now:
Buy the Book (https://juanrodulfo.com/product/100-stupid-interview-questions-and-the-lies-we-tell-to-survive-them/)

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