When I was in school I was told that I had an issue with authority. I was disruptive in classes, would constantly daydream or drift off from my studies and I reacted poorly to people telling me what to do. When I was a child who had ADHD and didn’t understand autism as much, it…
I could never claim to love sports. I’ve always been bad at them except for dodgeball which is a sport I relish in of itself and how I viciously mocking others for missing me. I flirted briefly with a love of football that year the Patriots went almost 19-0 but lost in the Superbowl to…
To celebrate my return to the site, I’m just making a quick post about the last section of this chapter. I’ll be back on Tuesday for an original post on my new job, unless I get inspired to do something else. Until then, enjoy this shorter than usual chapter commentary! Bill Talcott (Organizer) I don’t…
In starting this (short) section I wondered how Terks would handle a section on bureaucracy. Would he get all perspectives of those involved? Focus on the lower rung individuals like he generally does? The approach in this chapter is slightly mixed but certainly more geared towards the bottom rung than the higher echelon, as you…
Unsurprisingly to some (including myself) the so-called “makers and takers” within society are not a uniform people who are hellbent on exploiting other people for their advantage. Oddly enough, the category of people who deal with lots of money whether it be through expensive houses, boats or the stock exchange are a multi-faceted bunch of…
I’m not quite sure about the title for this section, “The Quiet Life”. If you ask me the only possible life that could be quiet is our first prospective interviewee, the book binder. But as for the pharmacist and the piano tuner (who literally works with sound everyday) I find myself a bit skeptical about…
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…
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…
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…
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…