Slate Careers
Getting past "and what is it you do?" to "how do you do it?" and "why?" These episodes, drawn from across the Slate network, dive into how to live while making a living.
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Working: A Moving Comeback Album From a Country...
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Working: Shaking a Creative Slump
26 min
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Working: A Tap Dancing Obsession
46 min
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ICYMI: The Super Bowl of Private Chef TikTok
As the rich flee New York City for the summer, so do their content-making chefs.
36 min
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Working: A Painter Reveals the Beauty of Bicycles
40 min
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Working: Working on Oneself
24 min
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How To!: Quit Your Calling
Daphne Gomez on leaving a job you loved to save your sanity, part two.
36 min
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Working: The Art of the On-Mic Interview
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A Word: Hollywood Shuffle
Striking Black screenwriters fear an unhappy ending without a new deal.
25 min
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How To Help Teachers Thrive
Daphne Gomez on supporting educators, part one.
31 min
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Working: A Prolific Novelist Takes a Breather
46 min
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Slate Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers S...
How the ongoing Writers Guild strike affects the entertainment economy
51 min
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Working: What Publication Day Feels Like
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Working: The Breakout Star of HBO’s Barry
47 min
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What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
Is Elon Musk’s CEO pick set up to fail?
20 min
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What Next: TBD | A Tipping Point for Digital Ti...
Why exactly are self-service checkouts asking us to pay more?
28 min
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Working: The Flawless Indie Pop of The Beths
45 min
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Working: How To Promote Your Work
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Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Ha...
If you really want to make your workplace more inclusive, stop with the virtue signaling and actually do the work.
29 min
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Working: A Hit YouTube Channel's Whimsical Engl...
46 min
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Working: The Queen of the Amazons on Transformi...
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What Next TBD: What the Writers' Strike Is Real...
The WGA is fighting to get ahead of A.I.—and finally catch up with the streaming era.
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ICYMI: Should Influencers Unionize?
36 min
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Hi Phi Nation: The Problem with Gig Work
Can gig workers beat the algorithm?
51 min
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Working: An Opera Singer’s Meticulous Pre-Show ...
46 min