Today’s must-listen/must-read story comes — not surprisingly — from StoryCorps on NPR this morning, which is the story of John Marboe, who picks up trash for a living. That’s in addition to being a Lutheran pastor in St. Paul and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. He got his Ph.D. in 2011. Read more →
Remember last spring and summer when you were heading for the cubicle farm in a stuffy office and you thought to yourself, ‘Man, those folks who have outside jobs have got it made!’? They might be thinking the same thing about your job today. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us and if you want to glimpse a few, look up sometime on the worst of nights when you hear a helicopter. Nobody would fly in such conditions unless there was someone who needed help.
They’re the crew of medical evacuation helicopters, and they include people like Miles Weske of Nisswa, who is going back to work on Sunday, an impressive fact considering that he was almost killed in September when bad weather forced the North Memorial Air Ambulance to the ground north of the Alexandria airport. Read more →
The racist taunts between a school bus driver in Moorhead and his passengers has brought out school-bus drivers in the area willing to tell the story of what the job is like. Read more →
If there’s anyone who deserved a good retirement, it’s Buddy. And that’s what he’s getting today at age 30.
Buddy is a therapy horse with We Can Ride, a Minnetonka therapeutic horseback riding program for people with special needs. Read more →
The saltie Cornelia finally pulled into the harbor in Duluth yesterday, a scene we never tire of watching and a scene we’ve never watched without wondering if there’s a worse job in the world than working on a saltie? We don’t know the answer to the question because we’ve never worked on a saltie nor Read more →
The people who work at newspapers drive the local news agenda. What they can’t do — as the St. Cloud Times’ story today proved again — is provide coverage of the execution of a community’s soul. Read more →
It’s gratifying to see some of the real geniuses of Minnesota Public Radio getting some attention in The Current’s just released behind-the-scenes video. Read more →
There are some jobs where it’s impossible to hide when you mess up. Blowing up bridges is one of them. Read more →
There are two amazing takeaways from this NOAA video of a “hurricane hunter” airplane flying into Hurricane Matthew. Read more →
Today’s daily dose of bittersweetness comes from Peter DeMarco, a Boston writer whose 34-year-old wife died after an asthma attack. Read more →
Somehow, Baby Boomers did OK with their career choices before becoming the helicopter parents who tried to direct every aspect of the lives of their precious flowers, attempting to keep them from stumbling, falling, and learning how to pick themselves up again.
Now they’re the nation’s grandparents and newspaper columnists, offering insufferable expertise to a generation that’s had plenty of it. Read more →
In last week’s NewsCut post — and yesterday’s radio show — on the best jobs,the worst jobs, and the jobs we learned the most from, one theme came through: Be nicer to people at work, particularly in the service sector. Empathy is in, people. Rudeness is out. Read more →
Andrew Gryskiewicz apparently isn’t like most people.
He’s the pizza delivery guy who was shot during a robbery two weeks ago. The bullet went through his heart. Read more →
Bus drivers for DART — Dallas Area Regional Transit — were told not to go downtown when a gunman ambushed police, killing of them.
So Don Washington went downtown to help get people out. Read more →
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