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Listen to a story of a man with service in his blood: George Morstatt, teacher, Marine, volunteer firefighter and dispatcher. We learn his take on ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2017
- Length: 17:05
Today Dave and Doug explore transitions from workforce to full-time parent to community leader. Discover how human resource skills can help the bal...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 14:18
Can a great haircut affect your job? Find out as Dave and Doug explore the common sense philosophy of an extraordinary barber. And, see how Dave sc...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 29:30
In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...
Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 13, 2017
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 68
Fred Taylor talks to his wife Julie about his 15 years writing letters to frustrated airplane passengers as Southwest Airlines’ apologizer-in-chief.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 3
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Host Phalana Tiller interviews A.G. Lafley, who led Procter & Gamble as its CEO from 2000 through 2009, and Craig Wynett, P&G's chief creative offi...
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 04:20
It's 115 degrees and your air conditioner is busted. Who do you call?
- Added: Jul 29, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 34:06
- Purchases: 2
A look into the world of ice cream truck drivers in southern Maine.
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
- Added: Mar 10, 2004
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
