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: Consuming Art like an Artist
25 min
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Working: The Writers Behind One of the Best Sho...
49 min
178
Big Mood: Death By Stable Employment
with guests Halle Kiefer and Alison Leiby, hosts of Crooked Media's horror podcast, Ruined
45 min
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Working: A Moving Comeback Album From a Country...
42 min
180
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
185
How To!: Quit Your Calling
Daphne Gomez on leaving a job you loved to save your sanity, part two.
36 min
186
Working: The Art of the On-Mic Interview
50 min
187
A Word: Hollywood Shuffle
Striking Black screenwriters fear an unhappy ending without a new deal.
25 min
188
How To Help Teachers Thrive
Daphne Gomez on supporting educators, part one.
31 min
189
Working: A Prolific Novelist Takes a Breather
46 min
190
Slate Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers S...
How the ongoing Writers Guild strike affects the entertainment economy
51 min
191
Working: What Publication Day Feels Like
32 min
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Working: The Breakout Star of HBO’s Barry
47 min
193
What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
Is Elon Musk’s CEO pick set up to fail?
20 min
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Working: The Flawless Indie Pop of The Beths
45 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
196
Working: How To Promote Your Work
19 min
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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...
48 min
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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.
27 min