![]() ![]() Who even knew there was a boring part of being a porn star? But there is, as Jessica Drake will tell you in a few weeks.įirst up: Stephen Colbert on how he puts his show together and turns himself from Stephen Colbert into the character “Stephen Colbert. Work today looks very different than it did in the wake of the 2008 Recession and even more so than it did in 1974, when Studs Terkel interviewed a diverse range of individualsfrom the farmers to newspaper boys, limo drivers, factory workers, phone operators, police officers, doctors, press agents and athletes for his influential book, Working. I asked my subjects to tell me about everything. All jobs have glamorous parts and dreary parts. (It’s not surprising that my interviewees like their jobs a lot more than Terkel’s did.) ![]() American work is more service- and information-oriented than it was 40 years ago, and my subjects skew that direction, too-more creative and knowledge professionals than blue-collar workers. I also surveyed a different array of workers than Terkel or Scarry. I asked Stephen Colbert about how he toggles back and forth between his character and himself. I talked to a hospice nurse about what she does with a dead body while she’s waiting for the mortician (washes it). This interview and others that Terkel recorded for his 1974 book, Working, were boxed away in his house until recently, when Radio Diaries and Project& combed through them and produced a series. I quizzed a waiter about whether he eats the food his customers leave on their plates (yes). I asked a rock musician how he performs his biggest hit for the thousandth time without sounding bored. ![]()
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