Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. - When I ask people that pesky question, "What do you do?," I often get more than one answer. When I spoke with author Amy Hale Auker,

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. When I ask people what they do, I often get complicated answers: tales of time-consuming passions pursued in the wee hours of the night after long days spent earning a living doing

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. After the deaths of both her father and her uncle in a single year, writer Jane Hodges remembers being hit with "a pile of grief, followed by a pile of cash." The money wasn't enoug

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. I'm always drawn to stories that involve connecting a job to a childhood passion. In this interview, entrepreneur Wilfred Martis told me about his "jobby"—the first role he's had

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Today I connected with Indira Nair, a friend and former colleague based in Kuala Lumpur. Indira is a seasoned communications professional who used to work for Malaysia Airlines. Ev

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. In this episode, I speak with Antonia Crane, author of SPENT, which Kirkus Reviews called the "revelatory, unapologetic life story of a San Francisco stripper and sex worker." Rea

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. As many Work Stew readers know, I stuck with a job that was wrong for me for far longer than I should have. I experienced what I now view as a colossal failure of imagination, rema

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. There are some jobs we've all known about since we were kids: astronaut, firefighter, doctor, teacher. And then there's the sort of job you don't even think about until you meet som

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. There are now more than 120 voices in the mix at Work Stew, and one theme I hear over and over again is a craving for meaning. Everyone needs to make a living, but—as the clichéÂ

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. No task gives me greater pleasure than making something with my hands, which is one reason I wanted to speak with Tess Poe. Over the last three years, Poe has built a business aroun