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Chapter 1: Does anyone actually like their job?
Hello. This week, we're rebroadcasting one of our favorite episodes. It's about a question that actually haunted me for most of my 20s. Does anyone actually like their job? One of Search Engine's pet obsessions, you may have noticed, is work. And this episode was the first time we took a swing at that pinata.
Chapter 2: What prompted the rebroadcast of this episode?
This year, we're starting the practice of periodically rebroadcasting some of our favorite episodes, at least on the main feed. Our incognito mode, which you can sign up for at searchengine.show, does not air rebroadcasts. But honestly, I'm pretty happy to play this one for you again. Listening this week to it again for the first time since we aired it in 2023,
I remembered that for me, I'm constantly on this strange wheel of samsara with work, loving it, feeling pummeled by it, wondering if I'll ever find some kind of balance or if that balance is even a real thing. And I found that our silly question and our exploration of its answers had actually given me some guidance, some notes towards some kind of solution.
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It's a unique piece that delves into the layers of filmmaking itself, where actual film platforms from the late 2000s appear in the film, like Final Draft and IMDb. Seems super weird. I'm excited to check it out. They also have Bird, directed by Andrea Arnold. Bird is a tender, compelling, and beautifully surprising coming-of-age fable about life in the fringes of contemporary society.
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This little movie I'd play myself in my mind to calm down when my brain was too jittery and I couldn't sleep. I'd picture myself walking down my block late at night, completely alone, when all of a sudden this guy would come around the corner. And it would be me, but older. And I'd have just a moment in passing to ask him, does it work out?
And this older, grizzled version of me would just like sagely nod his head and then disappear, presumably into the fog of night. Just to be clear, this anxiety I had about my future, it was not about my health or my friend's health or who was going to be president.
From about 2006 to 2014, what I fervently stayed up all night thinking about was whether one day I would get to do the thing I'm doing exactly right now in this moment. I wanted to tell stories for a living. I was living in New York, a college dropout, with a decent temp job doing research and editing for a radio journalist. But I wanted to tell stories myself.
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