Brittany Porter’s Reviews > Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs > Status Update

Supermodel - Heidi Klum
The most interesting part of this interview is how much the beginning of her story relies on good fortune. She offhandedly applied to a mail-in modeling competition as a teenager and won. Got a contract and $300,000. I appreciated her focus on having fun on photoshoots and feeling gratitude for her unique experience and status in life. I wonder how much as been glossed over in these interviews

Casting Director - Lisa Pirriolli
Lisa fell into this job because of a mutual connection. Lisa describes herself as empathetic and thinks that's her edge in the casting/acting world. She has concerns that this job has made her too jaded and self-centered. She's afraid that because she's so work focused she won't find balance through having a partner or develop an outside social life. She daydreams about a stable 9-5.

Updating the progress on this book weekly because I only read one blurb per day

What I love about this book so far is that there's no commentary from the authors. There's an introduction where they lay out the contents of the book and talk about their methodology. But they even say pretty explicitly that the interviews, the excerpts from each of the different workers, are meant to speak for themselves. It's not supposed to be political. But political themes arise just from the stories shared.