What It's Like To Be
From postal worker to film producer, what is it like to do what you do?
Am I my job? Are you? Oh hell no.
Today, I was thinking about my job. And then I was thinking about my worth. And then, I was thinking about how the correlation I made between my job and my worth made absolutely no sense.
Mjo RouleauPublished about a year ago in Journal
What happens when a girl who knows nothing about cars tries to sell one?
I woke up Friday morning, two snoozes past my actual alarm, oh how I terribly didn't want to go to work. I just had this feeling that it wasn't going to be a good day. Besides, I hadn't even attempted to look at the briefing that was sent prior. It was a 20-minute video and pages and pages of documents about the new Kia Carnival GUV car that was going to be positioned in the middle of Chermside Shopping Centre, yay.
Elly-Grace RinaldisPublished about a year ago in Journal- Third Place in Black in Business Challenge
Blossoming In STEM... And Other Spaces
Yamila is a Dominican Republican who relocated to Canada to pursue her tertiary studies in Biology on a full scholarship. Suffice it to say, she has been making big waves ever since. Yamila Franco is a force to be reckoned with, and I don't mean that in a cliché way. I battled with writing this as I tried to decide how to do Yamila's story justice. I felt her list of accomplishments was too long to squeeze into just one article. Regardless, I chose not to pass up the opportunity to use a medium like this to share her achievements with the world. She is just that good.
DonziikinzPublished about a year ago in Journal Life of an independent author
A process It has been a process to learn about being an author since I published my first book in July 2020. It has been at times a great and fun process. Then there are times I feel like I am playing catch up to other authors.
Lisa JacovskyPublished about a year ago in Journal
John Omar Woodcarver
John Omar is an artist and philosopher who took a vow of poverty as a young man. He does not believe that taking a vow of poverty will increase one's social standing but says that it can do wonders for one's social understanding. He obtained valuable knowledge from the wise people he met while hitchhiking between Cleveland, OH, Atlanta, Georgia, and other locations in the 60s and 70s. He started carving wood in 1972 to spread African culture. Many of his works feature sacred symbols from the continent. The picture at the top features a Gye Nyame, Ankh, and Sankofa. The Gye Nyame and Sankofa are popular Adinkra symbols Gye Nyame symbolizes the sole omnipotence of God. The Sankofa symbolizes learning from the past. The Ankh you may recognize as an Egyptian symbol sometimes called the Key of Life. African necklaces may not be as trendy as they were in the 1980s but they are still available from Uzuri Handcrafts. Uzuri is a Swahili word that means beauty.
Naima OmarPublished about a year ago in JournalThe Worst Day I've Ever Had At Work
I am a railroad employee, and I'm trained as both a conductor and an engineer. For those of you that don't know, an engineer is the person who controls the train, while a conductor is the person who has to be outside taking care of all the physical work. You start your railroad career as a conductor, and eventually when you have enough experience and seniority you can become an engineer. I'm sure you can guess which job is more dangerous.
Kevin McMechanPublished about a year ago in JournalHow to Become a Professional Performer
Every little kid has a dream. To be a doctor. To cure a disease. To save animals. To travel the world. To write a world-famous book.
Gabrielle FitzPatrickPublished about a year ago in Journal
The World’s Most Dangerous Jobs
For the majority of us, we have cosy 9–5 office jobs where the primary occupational hazards are getting a papercut or spilling hot coffee all over your desk and work. If you think your job is stressful, have you ever considered that earning a living may cost some workers their lives? Workplace fatalities and injuries remain a real risk in some industries — the International Labour Office (ILO) estimates that there are around 2.3 million workplace fatalities and 340 million injuries every year — that’s 6,300 deaths every day.
Adam JohnsonPublished about a year ago in Journal
Have You Thought About Working Security?
Becoming a security officer requires many things from you. A good training program is absolutely necessary because there is a lot of things to consider when dealing with people. Whether you are watching a warehouse or working a condominium gate, in the end you will be regulating people.
William O'Neal StringerPublished about a year ago in JournalWorking in a Female Prison Radically Changed My Perception of Human Behavior
In 2017, I was given the opportunity to go to an Indian prison and work as a mental health volunteer for the female inmates.
Jumper
In the mid-1950s I was a jumper for a milkman in Detroit--for about two years, from the age of fourteen to sixteen-years-old. I worked at it full-time in the summers, and every weekend when high school was in session.
Stephen LesPublished about a year ago in JournalMemento Mori
I am one of a million faces taking care of patients. A face that won’t be remembered, especially now that I am behind an N95, another mask, goggles, and a face shield. I have a gown that goes to my knees and booties that come up just under that. I am in surgical scrubs. I am not in anything that isn’t disposable.
Jazz CarperPublished about a year ago in Journal
