I would say this part of book five is going to help me stretch my “feminist legs” but that sounds weird. Therese Carter (Housewife) Right off the bat I just want it to be clear that this article is going to be short. Mostly because this part of book five is only 7 pages long…
Dory’s Notes: I’ve had this video on my “watch later” list on Youtube for a while now and recently watched it. I went back over it with a critical eye and most of its either straightforward and correct or only slightly misses the mark. Fact is, try as I might, I don’t see enough content…
After reading this article on the New York Times about The Brutal Life of Sanitation Workers and watching Top 10 Most Disgusting Jobs, it got me thinking about why workers who have such gross jobs get such little respect. Whether in their pay, the amount of social recognition and maybe even pride they take in…
For a few reasons or more this section of part 3 is going to be a little challenging for me. The main problem being that the first two people I’m going to highlight from Terkel’s interviews are actually happy with their jobs. And these aren’t jobs you would usually associate with being happy either. So…
Well look at that! It’s almost been two years since the last entry and that was when I working for an even shittier place than I was now. So I guess I’m moving up in the world…kind of? But at any rate, if I had the picture of myself that the company camera caught me…
There’s a lot of variety in this section of book five. There so much in fact that I’ve had to split it up into two different sections. It certainly helps that some of the interviews are short and to the point. So Terkel ends up getting around 4 interviews in about 15 pages which is…
Today I decided to read an article from The Guardian about post-work. I expected to criticize it while correcting it. Instead, I found myself pleasantly surprised in just how good the article is. It’s probably one of the best articles on anti-work I’ve read online (and I’ve read a handful or more over the years),…
We’ll be going a little short today with only two entries to cover but them’s the breaks of this chapter. Counting isn’t a particularly in depth look at the world of financial jobs at 10 pages, but maybe Terkel just finds math as boring as I do. Still, there’s definitely some winning equations in this…