- -: Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor
January 7, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Drawing on his experiences picking up roadkill, feeding swine, and castrating a lamb with his teeth, Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, discusses how modern American culture belittles necessary labor. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richa...
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- -: Benefits of Public Service - Chris Dodd
January 19, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/12/Building_Broad_Bi-Partisan_Support_for_Community_Service U.S. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) stresses the life-changing benefits of serving in a volunteer organization like the Peace Corps, and argues that time invested in activities like public service an...
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- -: Office Sex: Just Part of Being Human? - Alain de Botton
May 29, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Alain_de_Botton_on_the_Pleasures_and_Sorrows_of_Work Author Alain de Botton discusses the taboo of sexual relations between coworkers. He draws comparisons between the Catholic Church's stance on sex to the polices found at many places of work. "What ...
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- -: Suzy Welch on 10-10-10: An Operating Principle for Life
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/11/Jack_and_Suzy_Welch_The_Transformative_Power_of_10-10-10 Suzy Welch remembers the "disastrous" Hawaii trip that inspired 10-10-10, her life-transforming method to balance life and work. Welch says to evaluate the "consequences of every decision in ten...
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- -: Finding Meaning in the Daily Grind - Alain de Botton
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Alain_de_Botton_on_the_Pleasures_and_Sorrows_of_Work Author Alain de Botton says routine work allows us to impose order, provides us a distraction from thoughts of deaths and permits us to be something "slightly better than we manage to be in our day-...
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- -: Life Lessons from a Biscuit Factory - Alain de Botton
June 2, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Alain_de_Botton_on_the_Pleasures_and_Sorrows_of_Work Alain de Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, discusses lessons he learned from observing workers at a United Biscuits factory in the UK. According to Botton, highly specialized jobs...
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- -: Time for a New Women's Movement? - Ruth Reichl
June 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/10/Not_Becoming_My_Mother_Ruth_Reichl Ruth Reichl protests what she views as the "abysmal" choices working women have to make when they start a family. In response, she urges for a new women's movement in the United States. ----- Ruth Reichl admits tha...
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- -: Advice to College Grads - Jack and Suzy Welch
June 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/11/Jack_and_Suzy_Welch_The_Transformative_Power_of_10-10-10 Jack and Suzy Welch offer their advice to college graduates. While Suzy Welch acknowledges that many grads may have to settle for less than their dream job, she emphasizes the need to love your ...
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- -: Humor and Humanity in the HR Department - Alain de Botton
June 24, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/09/Alain_de_Botton_in_Conversation_with_Will_Hearst Alain de Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, gives a hilarious account of his experience with the HR department at an accounting firm. Although initially skeptical, de Button found sinc...
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- -: Designing Your Perfect Work Day - Craig Nathanson
July 30, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/13/Craig_Nathanson_Dont_Just_Retire__Die Vocational coach Craig Nathanson leads an exercise in planning "your perfect vocational day," including ideal activities, work settings, and associates. He explains that the key to living an authentic life is lear...
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