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Makin' It: Julian Lynch, Musician and Ethnomusicologist
Welcome to Makin' It, GOOD Business’ look at how people with excellent jobs found themselves pursuing the work they love. You’ll be jealous, but you’ll pick up some tips, too. Julian Lynch is one of...
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Makin' It: Carolyn Vega, Librarian for Handwritten Stuff
Carolyn Vega is a manuscripts cataloger at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. On any given day, she's combing through some of the most fascinating stuff this side of papyrus and telling the...
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Makin' It: Jason Sigal, Free Music Expert
Jason Sigal is a DJ for Jersey City, New Jersey's pioneering independent radio station WFMU. He is also managing director of the Free Music Archive, one of the largest collections of open-source music...
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Makin' It: Meg Paska, Urban Beekeeper
Meg Paska is an urban beekeeper, backyard farmer, and self-sustainability advocate living in the backwoods of Brooklyn, New York. Her adventures detail on raising chickens in a small backyard, brewing...
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Makin' It: Willy Muse, Fashion Designer
Willy Muse is an associate menswear designer for J.Crew. Over the course of our conversation, he touched on the importance of Nike Blazers, the irrelevance of special job certifications, and being in...
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Makin' It: Jerrold Jackson, Social Worker
Jerrold Jackson is a social worker in New York City. He's also a Ph.D. candidate, consultant, volunteer, and all-around nice guy. Somehow he ties it all together. In our conversation, Jackson explains...
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Makin' It: Jeffrey de Picciotto, Butcher
Jeffrey de Picciotto is a butcher at Dickson's Farmstand Meats in New York City. When he's not breaking animals nose to tail, he writes, edits, and produces the culinary how-to website FudeHouse.com....
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Makin' It: Maurice Leacock, Robot Builder
Maurice Leacock is a senior technical product manager at iRobot, which manufactures (among many other devices) the Roomba, the hands-free vacuum cleaner that bumps around your living room. He's also a...
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Makin' It: Kalia Brooks, Curator
Kalia Brooks is the Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn. She is also an an adjunct professor at New York University and a Ph.D. candidate in...
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Makin' It: Emily Thompson, Floral Designer
Emily Thompson is a floral designer based in Brooklyn. Her fantastical creations have graced everything from weddings to the White House during the holiday season. She recently spoke with us about the...
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Makin' It: Howard Veregin, Wisconsin's Postmodern State Cartographer
Howard Veregin is the official state cartographer of Wisconsin. As avid users of maps both old and new, we were enchanted by his descriptions of maps as weapons, the "Google revolution," and what...
View ArticleMakin' It: Denmark's Quirky Brewmaster
Mikkel Borg Bjergsø is the owner and impresario of Mikkeller, one of the most exciting companies making beer in the world today. His brews run the gamut—pilsners, IPAs, bocks, and lambics—and often...
View ArticleMakin' It: Elizabeth Carey Smith, a Designer With Type as Her Medium
Elizabeth Carey Smith is a typographer and graphic designer at The Letter Office in New York. The attention paid to fonts over the past few years is long overdue, and we were excited to ask Elizabeth...
View ArticleMakin' It: Edward Janssen, Silversmith and Jeweler
Edward Janssen is a silversmith for Tiffany’s who also designs a custom line of jewelry under the name This Charming Man. After losing his passion for jewelry-making during a stint in the service...
View ArticleMakin' It: Kira Eng-Wilmot, Tapestry Bather and Textile Conservator
Kira Eng-Wilmot is a textile conservator at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City, where she cares for tapestries in the church's collection and private commissions. In her...
View ArticleMakin' It: Sam Temple, Wooden Boat Builder in Maine
Sam Temple comes from a long line of traditional wood-hulled boat builders. These days he continues the family tradition in Rockport, Maine, not far from where his grandfather learned. Sam's passion...
View ArticleMakin' It: Jamie Self, Bus Adventurer Turned Small Town Reporter
Jamie Self is a reporter at The Herald in Clover, South Carolina. Her path to journalism was not always certain, and she made several career detours along the way. How did you end up at a small-town...
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