Workers at Gardiner Farms in Bakersfield, California shake hands on August 31, 2011. Behind them, an almond harvest is separated and loaded into trucks. #

A worker cleaning a walkway at Liberty Island as dark clouds cover the skyline of Manhattan, New York, on May 18, 2011. #

A trapeze artist who has rented ceiling space in a warehouse in Oakland, California, practices her routine on November 30, 2011. #

Steam. #

Marking Roosters at JPS Farms, Community Supported Agriculture in Center City, Minnesota, in May of 2011. #

Geeks at the coffee bar in the KAYAK office in Concord, Massachusetts, October 2011. #

A security worker making his rounds on top of the Rockefeller Center Building in New York City after a rain, on March 31, 2010. #

A carpenter in Oakland, California sits in the storage area of his micro-home-in-progress on December 5, 2011. #

Minas Dimitri fixes a watch in his store Thrift and New at the corner of Ninth Avenue and 43rd Street in New York City, on October 19, 2011. #

On December 5, 2011, an artist at the American Steel Studios in Oakland, California, works on a sculpture for an upcoming show. #

Lili Fable at Poseidon Bakery, her family's shop, on September 27, 2011. The bakery, at 629 9th Ave, New York, has been in Hell's Kitchen for 88 years. #

Airman Shepherd, representing Iowa, stationed at Andersen AFB in Guam, on June 23, 2007. #

With a pen and a pad, a reporter gathers information at an Occupy protest in Washington, District of Columbia, #

A banquet server at the Ritz-Carlton, Chicago presents a plate of sliders on October 24, 2011. #

Now Hiring #

Cop Pop. Photo taken outside the White House on July 5th 2011. #

At work on the high seas! My global office en route to Bermuda, in September of 2011. #

A street vendors walks International Boulevard in Oakland, California with a tower of cotton candy on January 26, 2011. #

Night Paving #

A shop assistant threads wrapping paper into a salt water taffy machine in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 3, 2011. #

A fisherman from above. #

An eco-friendly tourist taxi at work, in Manhattan, New York, on June 18, 2011. #

Making the hitch. #

A long work day at the Seafood Market, in Pensacola, Florida, on October 12. 2011. #

Rick, an employee at Maryland Metals. #

Commuters and tourists flood New York City's Grand Central Station in the morning of March 30, 2010. #

Harvesting soybeans in Western Iowa, on October 26. #

Welding on BNSF Railway track on March 20. 2010 in Drake, Arizona. #

A worker salvages what he can from junkyard cars on March 19, 2010, in Woodstock, Illinois. #

Andrew Conner, carpenter, photographed on September 11, 2011, in Johnson City, Tennessee. #

Mike Niemann repairs yacht engines on Catalina Island in Southern California, on January 28, 2012. #

Iowan. June 7th, 2011 in Leighton, Iowa. #