Working

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying."

Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
American writer, journalist, broadcaster
Pulitzer Prize winner

Everything begins with our attitude toward our work -- to how we contribute. We should be sure to guard and nurture that attitude.

Terkel's bestselling book Working was published 35 years ago as an oral history of "people talking about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do".

Outside the sales hours, enjoy 9 minutes of audio from NPR -- the story around the book and actual recordings from a few of Terkel's interviews for the book. Particularly heartwarming: Delores the waitress (at minute 2), Terry the newspaper boy (at minute 3.5) and Therese "just a housewife" (at minute 7).