Bob CollinsIn the ongoing competition to determine who has the best job in Minnesota, we’re prepared to suggest that the favorite is Dave Campbell.
We’re just not sure which David Campbell.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The jobs we do
But it’s not just phony democracy that’s gumming up the workplace, CNBC says. It’s technology’s fault for making meetings easy to schedule and — perhaps more important — stripping human contact from the workplace.
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Knowing how much my fellow Upper Midwesterners love to hear how others see us, I’m bound to pass along this photograph from my friend, Steve North, a long time journalist best known in our circles for having a picture of himself and whatever famous person just died. He gets around with the best of them. Read more →
What we do we do for a reason. What’s yours? What’s the best job you ever had? What was the worst? We’ll talk about it on the radio Monday morning, but share a story now. Read more →
Largely on the strength of overwhelming evidence from my former colleague Nikki Tundel, I’ve come to believe that as great as the Minnesota State Fair is, the Iowa State Fair is better. Read more →
In its story about the Stanley Cup visiting Duluth yesterday, the Duluth News Tribune unintentionally gives us pause to think how much more excited we might be to go to work today if we had the gig Walt Neubrand has. Read more →
There are many regrets I have but none bigger than a flight in the plane I never got a chance to make a couple of weeks ago.
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John Enger
Why not reconnect with nature and keep your day job? John Enger, MPR News’ reporter in Bemidji, Minn., spent the week commuting to work from a campground. Here’s what he learned. Read more →
At the start of the ‘Oh, your job is easy; you don’t have to work in the summer’ season, it’s a good time to remember that some pretty awesome people have those teaching jobs.
Joan Hochman, a third-grade teacher at Woodbury’s Middleton Elementary School is obviously one of them. Read more →
Julie Ovenhouse is part traffic cop, part therapist, and part handyman. Her actual title is Special General Adjuster for Farmers Insurance Group. Ovenhouse, who flew in from her home in Michigan this week, specializes in large-loss catastrophes. North Minneapolis more than qualifies. Her job is answering the question that is always the first one victims of disaster ask: ‘Where do I start?’ Read more →
Bernie Ockuly, of Cleveland, fairly well bristled last January when he read an MIT professor’s suggestion (by way of News Cut) that people who have been unemployed for 99 weeks probably aren’t trying hard enough to get a job. He knows better. Read more →
Every year around this time, journalists — especially ex-newspaper journalists — embrace the survey that shows that theirs is the worst job in America. It’s as good an example of the victim mentality as there is. Read more →
My airline pilot friends reported to me last week that in the aftermath of the Germanwings tragedy, passengers stepping onto their jets were asking them “do you feel alright?”. Funny stuff.
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Midwest aviation fans will likely recognize the couple profiled in today’s Op-Ed documentary by the New York Times. Read more →
We don’t tire of watching videos of people hanging out of helicopters hanging wires as part of the big CapX2020 project.
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