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Friday, July 07, 2017

In case you were wondering about working as a snake milker

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What better way to spend a lazy summer Friday work day than pondering a job you’ll never hold – and, in truth, have likely never heard of. A...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

He wore black denim trousers…

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I’ve seen a couple of articles of late that have focused on the auto industry, and how it’s been a bit sluggish. Which means plenty of layof...
Wednesday, July 05, 2017

High Camp

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On Monday, I wrote about my one and only experience with camp, which occurred more than 50 years ago at a place that, by anyone’s definition...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Pink Slip takes it easy

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If there’s one thing that Pink Slip likes to do, it’s kick back and enjoy a holiday. And one holiday I especially enjoy kicking back on is ...
Monday, July 03, 2017

Low Camp…

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Like most children with active imaginations, I spent a lot of my childhood in my head, madly fantasizing, cooking up alternative realities. ...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

Working retail

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If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you’re quite aware that retail jobs are on the decline. Yes, I sometimes interact with the greet...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Monson, Maine: the making of an arts colony?

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My husband grew up in a down-at-the-heels, gritty town in Vermont – the antithesis of the post-card pretty white shingled houses with black ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Jolly Roger Telco. Roger that, you telemarketing pirates.

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If you do nothing else today to waste time on the Internet, you need to head over to Jolly Roger Telco and listen to a bunch of recorded di...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Yo, Yoplait! That’s some authenticity you got going there.

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I don’t remember exactly when yogurt became a “thing”. The late 1960’s? The early 1970’s? Anyone, somewhere along my dietary timeline, I bec...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Professional Chic

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I have my occasional moments – courtesy mostly of Eileen Fisher, I guess -  but I do not generally consider myself especially chic when it c...
Friday, June 23, 2017

It is good to be George Clooney

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One of the reasons I’d like to write a novel is that it would improve my chances of getting a novel published, having a novel made into a mo...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Uniformly Allergic

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Oh, I suppose I should be writing about Travis Kalanick’s ouster from Uber. And how in reading about Uber it turns out that they’re even wo...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Artisanal blue collar jobs. (Or, news that sounds like it’s from the Onion.)

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These days, any news about blue collar jobs on a growth spurt is good news. Or is it? Apparently not when we’re looking at a headline that ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Here comes the sun? You are my sunshine? Good day sunshine?

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With a few notable exceptions, most Americans get that coal mining, like buggy whip making and switchboard operating, is a profession of the...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Rachel Borch, I salute you!

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I come from a family of story tellers, and there are many stories we enjoy in the retelling. One of our favorites involves my brother Rich a...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Summer Fridays

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I have one client that has a nice summer Friday perk: the office closes down at 2 p.m. They’re not alone: The summer Friday is on an upswi...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Make it in Massachusetts. (Rimshot, please…)

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Yesterday evening, my walk took me through the Boston Public Garden where, as it happens, there’s a concert every summer Wednesday at 7 p.m....
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

We got shoes! (I’m a sole man…errrrr, woman.)

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Fifty years ago today, I can pretty much tell you what I was doing, and that was working in a shoe factory in Worcester. I was on the comple...