Dan and Michael Learn a Trade
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael imagine what it’s like to work for a living by giving some advice to a graduating high school student, reflecting on robots and boredom on the factory line, and speculating on just how true a job advertisement on an oil field can be. Why anyone would look for career advice from two washed anthropologists is beyond us. But, if you’re trying to figure out what to do with your life, this episode is for you.
In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:
“30 under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail” by Arwa Mahdawi https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/06/forbes-30-under-30-tech-finance-prison
“Breaching Experiments” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment
Studies in Ethnomethodology, by Harold Garfinkel (you may want to bookmark this one; Michael brings it up a lot)
