Job Interviews Unincorporated New York Office, now open!

Job Interviews Unincorporated: New York Office

Hey, remember that project I did in June for Works Progress’ exhibition at Intermedia Arts? Well, I’m finally getting around to writing a follow-up post with some good news: Job Interviews Unincorporated will be opening its New York office on September 24th, as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival. 

For those of you that interviewed at the Minneapolis office last June, you may be contacted soon for some potential follow-up work — Job Interviews Unincorporated is looking for a few select employees to telecommute from the midwest.

In the meantime, some props are in order. First off, thanks to my friends at Works Progress for helping put together the Minneapolis office (including setting up the lovely arrangement you see above). Second, thanks to the folks at The Work Office for contracting Job Interviews Unincorporated to be included in their portion of the DUMBO Arts Fest.

More details to come!

(photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash/Works Progress)

Half Letter Press:

(via founddesign) There are lots of very good reasons to work for free (helping to support a project you like, being a generous person, putting community before money, etc.) but when someone, who is usually in a very good position to pay you, pulls this old chestnut out of their ass and expects you to leap for joy at the honor of being asked by someone so big and important, just say No!

So I’m working on this project called Job Interviews Unincorporated. Of course, it has a website:

Job Interviews Unincorporated aims to explore our collective perception of — and relationship to — work and working. We feel the best way to understand this topic is to tap into individuals’ personal employment insight and experience. We are continually adding new team members to our staff to help further our cause.

But, more importantly, it has a phone number: 612.424.9003. And most fun of all, it has an office — at Works Progress’ exhibition We Work Here: A Conversation on Art, Economics & Community at Intermedia Arts (some of you may have done some work for us at last Saturday’s opening).

If you can, stop by Intermedia Arts and put some time in (trust me, it’ll be fun). Otherwise, you can give that number a ring and submit your application remotely.

Also, I have to give some fat big thanks to the folks at Works Progress for initiating the project, and for setting it up while I’m off exploring the West Coast.

Looking forward to hearing your interview!

(photo: Job Interviews Uninc. time card)

Day Job and Night Job

BY ANDREW HUDGINS

After my night job, I sat in class
and ate, every thirteen minutes,
an orange peanut-butter cracker.
Bright grease adorned my notes.

At noon I rushed to my day job
and pushed a broom enough
to keep the boss calm if not happy.
In a hiding place, walled off

by bolts of calico and serge,
I read my masters and copied
Donne, Marlowe, Dickinson, and Frost,
scrawling the words I envied,

so my hand could move as theirs had moved
and learn outside of logic
how the masters wrote. But why? Words
would never heal the sick,

feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
blah, blah, blah
Why couldn’t I be practical,
Dad asked, and study law—

or take a single business class?
I stewed on what and why
till driving into work one day,
a burger on my thigh

and a sweating Coke between my knees,
I yelled, “Because I want to!”—
pained—thrilled!—as I looked down
from somewhere in the blue

and saw beneath my chastened gaze
another slack romantic
chasing his heart like an unleashed dog
chasing a pickup truck.

And then I spilled my Coke. In sugar
I sat and fought a smirk.
I could see my new life clear before me.
It looked the same. Like work.

Andrew Hudgins, “Day Job and Night Job” from Ecstatic in the Poison. Copyright © 2003 by Andrew Hudgins. Reprinted without permission from the Poetry Foundation’s website.

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