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Rebecca Clarke Preparing for the Majority-Minority Economy
Alejandra Castillo, the national director of the Minority Business Development Agency, talks about small-business ownership and the U.S.’s changing demographics.
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Rebecca Clarke All the Work That Goes Into One Bottle of Wine
Erin Dix, a wholesaler in St. Louis, talks about what it’s like to be an intermediary between producers and retailers.
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Rebecca Clarke What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Venture Capital
Ann Crady Weiss, an entrepreneur and venture partner in Silicon Valley, talks about being a female executive in tech.
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Rebecca Clarke When Your Job Is Planning the Most Important Day of Someone’s Life
Jennifer Lucio Vargas, an event planner in Miami, Florida, talks about running a majority-Latina firm, and the stress of getting everything just right.
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Rebecca Clarke The Person at the End of the Grocery Line
Ronnie Frostig, a cashier in Atlanta, talks about what it’s like to work at Publix, an employee-owned supermarket.
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Rebecca Clarke Working With Lightning
Robert Weathers talks about his job maintaining Walter De Maria’s land-art installation The Lightning Field in New Mexico.
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Rebecca Clarke The Man Who Keeps the Lights On
Tim Miller, an electric-utility lineman, talks about what it’s like to be responsible for distributing his community’s power.
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Rebecca Clarke Brokering the American Dream
Tom Salomone, a real-estate agent in Coral Springs, Florida, talks about what it takes to find buyers properties they can actually afford.
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Rebecca Clarke Fashion, Made in America
Emily Saunders, a New York-based designer, talks about why she works with local labor to produce her collections.
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Rebecca Clarke When Working Hard Is Hardly Working, Financially
Lina Estepan has two jobs—one as a bus cleaner, the other as a cafeteria worker. In an interview, she talks about the impact that a 60-hour workweek has on her life.
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Rebecca Clarke Selling a Big Chain to Locals
Frankie Israel, a sales and service manager at West Elm in Charlotte, talks about how he found working as a salesperson surprisingly rewarding.
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Rebecca Clarke Working With the Living to Honor the Dead
Bob Arrington, a funeral director in Jackson, Tennessee, talks about the emotional elements of his job and what he thinks it takes to plan a good funeral.
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Rebecca Clarke A Doorwoman in a Doorman's World
Marilyn Rivera, a building attendant at a luxury apartment in Manhattan, talks about why she doesn’t mind starting her day at 3:20 every morning.
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Rebecca Clarke Working on the Railroad
David Pryor, a conductor at Amtrak, talks about why his job on the train makes him optimistic about American society.
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Rebecca Clarke The Work Behind Construction Projects
Lanier Spriggs, who has been in the industry for eight years, talks about why it needs to change its image.
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Rebecca Clarke The Instant Gratification of Being a Surgeon
Sareh Parangi, a doctor at one of the Harvard hospitals, talks about why people hold her work in the operating room in such high regard.
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Rebecca Clarke From Worship Service to Customer Service
Steve Fischer, a hotel manager in Oklahoma, talks about his transition from being a church musician to a career of caring for travelers.
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Rebecca Clarke The Particular Challenges of Guarding Women Prisoners
Bisera Habibija, a lieutenant at a state corrections facility in Utah, talks about how she’s seen the inmate population change over the last decade.
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Rebecca Clarke Cleaning After Hours
Mohamed Zaker, a janitor at Harvard University, talks about his work and life.
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Rebecca Clarke 72 Hours on the Fire Line, Every Week
Armando Alvarez has been fighting some of California’s worst fires for 15 years, working shifts that can go well beyond his regular hours and last up to 18 days.
