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: The Life of Creative Work After Death
31 min
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What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Rounds of layoffs have disproportionately affected women in tech—including those on maternity leave.
27 min
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Working: A Grammy-Winning Jazz Composer Trusts ...
46 min
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Working: A TV Critic Pivots to Exposing Hollywo...
45 min
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The Waves: Watch The Women’s World Cup, Damn It!
Come for Megan Rapinoe’s last tournament, stay for the beautiful game.
36 min
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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
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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
210
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
50 min
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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
32 min
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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