First Person: Funeral Home Director // Telemarketer

Published: March 8, 2022, 5 a.m.

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An episode from 3/8/22: How would you talk about your job, if someone came around asking? Tonight, we hear from Beverly Valentine, a Funeral Home Director, and Jason Groth, a Telemarketer. They were interviewed more than twenty years ago for the 2000 book \\u2060Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs\\u2060, and I have yet to find a boring interview in the entire book.

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The book is clearly meant as an update to Studs Terkel\'s 1974 collection of interviews, Working.

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