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b'Working 2050 is a speculative oral history about workers of the future.\\n\\n"It\'s nice to make boxes. But... it\'s a niche, not my passion."\\n\\nThanks to Molly Pease for providing the voiceover. Show Notes and Transcript: NK Guin lives in a cooperative outside of Oak Lawn. She\\u2019s lived in the short term dormitory for 4 years: \\u201cI guess I just like bunk beds.\\u201d We met in the dorm\\u2019s kitchen:\\n\\n\\u201cI don\\u2019t really know why I became an artist.\\n\\nWhen I was 10 my dad put my art capstone for 4th grade on all of his social channels. \\nIt was an artisan project: a really big deal for me, I\\u2019d spent months working on it, but nothing special, a 3D printed reclaimed mahogany box inlaid with silver. Special for a kid artist, not special for an artist artist. \\n\\nI was a cute kid and the box was pretty nice, so I viraled for a minute, like anything with a cute kid with an out of the ordinary talent does.\\n\\nI was reaching 2, maybe 3 million people at one point -- so my dad helped me set up my own channel -- an editorial calendar, microniches, keywords, a shop with sales items. There was a high demand for more wooden boxes like the type I made for my project, it didn\\u2019t matter to the buyers if they were 3D printer or not. So I started mass producing those, managing my own channel, taking art and marketing courses, and\\u2026 here I am today. \\nWhat is your typical day like? \\nIt\\u2019s pretty much the same every day. Wake up, read through all the comments on my channels from the night before. Answer all the shopping and community comments. Schedule some posts for the next few days. Make some videos, answer some questions about the boxes on live video. \\nMake boxes. Go to bed. \\n\\nWhat do you like to do for fun? \\nEvery now and then I\\u2019ll have some free hours, I\\u2019ll walk around outside. Be in nature. I like to write poetry, when I have time for that. \\n\\nDo you ever think about switching over to that? Making more nature or poetry oriented work?\\nIt\\u2019s not really my niche, you know? A lot of other producers are doing that, it\\u2019s a pretty competitive track. It would be hard to shift gears. \\n\\n[Awkward silence]. \\n\\nI mean, I made a box with a tree on it a couple of months ago. Check it out. \\n\\n[he projected an image of the box onto their projected home screen]. \\n\\nI mean\\u2026 it\\u2019s cool, right? It\\u2019s a beech tree. For a while they weren\\u2019t sure if they were going to be any of these left in Illinois. \\n\\nReally?\\nYeah!\\n\\nWhy?\\nOh\\u2026 That\\u2019s all I know about it. \\n\\nIs the box made of beech?\\n\\nOh\\u2026 no. It\\u2019s way cheaper to buy red pine. And people don\\u2019t care what kind of wood the box is made out of, as long as it\\u2019s wood. \\n\\nDo you like what you do all day?\\nI mean\\u2026 who does? I\\u2019m not trying to save the world or anything. It\\u2019s not my passion -- it\\u2019s my niche. We all have different niches. My niche isn\\u2019t about teaching people how to build better sanitation systems, or stopping pandemics. My niche is that I build boxes. \\u201c\\n\\nReading/Resources:\\nThe Passion Economy, Instructables.com,'