Big Work: Real Stories of How Our Jobs Do (and Don't) Define Us
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0711N3Z38 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 595 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Studs Terkel would be proud. I thoroughly enjoyed both an on-stage production I saw of this piece as well as reading the piece in this form. It made me think of the old Studs Terkel book, "Working," but an updated and modernized version of that. If you have the chance to see this show in person, please do. The authors and actors do a marvelous job of communicating more than
Big Work examines our modern day relationship to our jobs and the ripples this causes throughout our lives. Based on interviews with people from all across the US, the play follows 17 real people who share stories about their dreams, about feeling invisible, about unexpectedly starting over, and about searching for employment and themselves. We'd also been having in-depth conversations with people in our lives about what it means to be seen as less valuable in the workforce as you age, what you are supposed to sacrifice to get ahead in a career, how to balance the demands of a family with the demands of a workplace, whether or not our passions should be our jobs, and what it means to try so hard and always come up short. Melissa was struggling with what it means to be an artist with a day job. And Kate, after retreatin