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WORK: Pedro, Trainer and Bodybuilder
September 24th, 2010Meet Pedro Mejias. He’s a personal trainer at Richie’s Gym, at Jefferson St. and Bushwick Avenue, and a body builder. Work does define him, he believes, because he’s a hard worker — he doesn’t do anything half-assed, and…
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WORK: Becky, Champion of Bridezillas
September 16th, 2010Meet Becky. She owns Becky’s Wedding Boutique on Broadway and finds that the best part of her job is — believe it or not — the bridezillas, because they know what they want. Depending on a bride-to-be’s charisma,…
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WORK: Jon the Tattoo Artist
September 10th, 2010Meet Jon, an apprentice at Crazy Monkey, a tattoo parlor on Broadway. He says it’s the first job he’s actually liked, as opposed to simply tolerated. It’s also the first one to potentially lead to a career. Before…
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WORK: Glenn the Bag Man
September 3rd, 2010Meet Glenn. He’s the Artistic Director of Bags for the People. He teaches kids and adults how to make reusable bags by sewing donated fabric scraps. He started BFTP as a reaction to all the plastic bags given…
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WORK: Shane the Repo Man
August 27th, 2010Meet Shane. He works full-time as an EMS driver, and repossesses cars in the evenings, mostly in Bushwick. What he likes best about it is — seriously! — meeting a variety of people. The worst part is when some…
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WORK: Alabama Joe’s Work Ethic
August 19th, 2010Meet Alabama Joe. He makes BBQ grills out of reused 55-gallon industrial steel drums. 11 years ago, he quit his job as a vice president of a trucking company because he was fed up with corporate life — the…
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WORK: Meet Merlene the Nurse
August 5th, 2010Meet Merlene. She’s a nurse, and “really enjoys” what she does — the best part being able to see people recover and continue on to lead a healthy life. For her, a good life is being free of disease…
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WORK: Saleem the Artist (and Cashier)
July 29th, 2010Saleem graduated from one of the roughest high schools in NYC — Franklin K. Lane, graduation rate of 40%, to be shut down in 2011 for its poor performance. He went on to college and majored in art…
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WORK: Steve the Old Soul
July 23rd, 2010Meet Steve. He owns Goodbye Blue Monday–a coffeehouse, performance space and a repository for “stuff” collected over the years. In the 80s, he owned Scrap Bar on Bleecker and MacDougal, where stars would misbehave and Hell’s Angels acted as…
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WORK: Dorothy the Educator
July 15th, 2010Meet Dorothy Minor. She worked as an assistant at the Board of Education for 35 years before retiring. She’s 81 years old and spends all day sitting on her porch or looking out the window. She unabashedly shares the…
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