Author: Megan Sukys

Take These Stories And…

Alright, enough with the shoving already!

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The Tacoma Public Library invited us to produce a special, second show of real-life work stories because this month the annual “Tacoma Reads Together” book is Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickle and Dimed”. It’s Barbara’s first-person account of trying to make a living working minimum wage jobs back in 2001.

So, TONIGHT, TUESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2014, we bring you a FREE SHOW featuring four storytellers who didn’t go undercover to learn the truth about working in America. They just took the best jobs they could find. However, they learned the same thing Barbara did:

“What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.”

 

So, if you don’t get big bucks from working, what do you get?
The kinds of lessons money can’t buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 JOIN US AT TACOMA’S MAIN BRANCH LIBRARY, OLYMPIC ROOM, TONIGHT AT 7:00pm!

Take This Job And Shove It TOO

Because there are more stories about bad jobs than there is time to share them, we’ve got MORE chances to tell your “Take This Job And Shove It” tale!   REGISTER NOW for our FREE WORKSHOP at Wheelock Library in Tacoma on Saturday, October 11 from 10a-11:30a.   A bad job, a cranky boss or outrageous co-workers can be the source…

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Megan Sukys, Voices In The Dark

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Megan Sukys’ first started her radio career by working overnights in Fayetteville, NC. She had maybe 15 listeners, and her biggest fans worked at the local glue factory. But then, she joined the news coverage of Hurricane Fran and fell in love with bringing people together through talking.

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

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Timothy C, Naked in New York

 

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Timothy C spent seventeen years as an undercover officer tracking down human trafficking and sex crime perpetrators. Now that he’s out of the business, he looked back at an incident in New York City that shows just how much he was willing to bare to get the criminal.

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

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Tracie Bonjour, Embracing The Pain

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Tracie Bonjour planned to bring her children into her international outreach career – before she actually had kids. Her first son pushed her to the limit of balancing work and parenthood. Then, Tracie discovered that dealing with the job of mom meant riding the waves.

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

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David Schumer, The Cervixes Of Africa

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Bored with the life of a private practice physician, David Schumer volunteered to perform cervical cancer screenings in Zambia. Once he got to the understaffed, understocked and overtaxed clinic, though, he faced the limits of his skills against the vast need for health care in southern Africa.

 

PHOTOS: Scott Haydon

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