Where does your interest in film come from?

That's an interesting question. When I was younger I was very interested in women in the arts, and especially film but I only knew a handful of the obvious names. Y'know Dorothy Arzner, but I felt very strongly that films should not be lost. The original films, they must be kept to speak for themselves. When you have nothing but other people interpreting what the films were really like you're in trouble.

Are you a filmmaker?

My film side is that I edit a film and media journal called Framework and I also write about film—particularly costume design. So no, [...]

Tell me about your job.

I was traveling in Thailand, working in a hospital about three years ago. I got to see the maternity ward there and some births and it basically changed the course of my life. When I came back I became an EMT and I started assisting births—not as an EMT, totally separate. Suddenly I was launched into the medical world and I became a Doula, which is a certified birth assistant, and now I am studying to become a midwife. To become a Doula you go through a six-month certification process and it's basically an emotional and psychological support system for the mother. It differs from [...]

Tell me about your job. I spend the majority of my time here. I do a lot of front of the house managing work. I do all the scheduling and design the menus, basically the whole appearance of the place. The bar's been open since August 2009, I've been here since the beginning. It took us nine months to build the place, we bought in November of 2008. Before this I owned an irrigation business on Long Island. I decided to sell it; I didn't know what I wanted to do. I met my partner here, Drew, and got into the business with him. From there, I don't [...]

Tell me about your job. I work doing building maintenance for a luxury condo in the Financial District. A normal day can consist of cleaning or painting, a rough day can be everything from climbing into an vent to cutting holes in a wall and then patching them back up to make it look like you were never there in the first place. It really depends, sometimes you get an easy day, sometimes you don't go home until three hours after your shift ends. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect when I started, I've almost been there for a year now, and I'm pretty sure by the time [...]

Tell me about your job. I am a producer/director of reality television. I'm a freelancer so I have clients that are production companies, and I can kinda hop from job to job depending on my schedule and what I'm working on. I'm called in to produce and direct, I talk with the families, talk with the participants, get them comfortable, fill them in on what to sort of expect, the process of making a television show, and get them comfortable in a way so that they're sort of providing material for the show that doesn't come across as fake, so that they're themselves. One of things people always [...]

Tell me about your job.

My job consists mainly of magic but I've gone into a different area of psychological tricks of the mind. I like to call myself a 'sleight of the mind artist.' It encompasses traditional slight of hand, modern mind reading and con artistry. I've got a gig at a hotel bar right now, and I present weird and strange tricks to people while they're drinking it up.

Tell me about your job.

I come from a pretty interesting theater background—my parents started Pregones Theater which is one of the foremost Latino theater companies in New York. I was born into that, and so I became a very active member in it, we're now in our 30th year. I studied drama at a performing arts high school and after that decided to pursue the craft a little more seriously and went to SUNY Purchase for their acting conservatory. I got out and started auditioning, working a lot with Pregones, doing readings here and there. I eventually booked a great Broadway job with "A Free Man of Color" [...]

Tell me about the harmonica. In 1964 when I was 10 or 11, I started playing harmonica. I got a harmonica from my older sister, she had played for about two years. I found the sounds to be wonderful, and I loved it. After playing harmonica, I tried many other instruments. I played the Chinese fiddle, the violin, the cello, the piano, every instrument I wanted to try. But no matter what I always came back to the harmonica. I think the harmonica has a very special, unique sound. When playing the harmonica, I have a easier time controlling the music than with other instruments, it's just using [...]

Tell me about your job. I write features which are anything that's not hard news—longer form articles that aren't attached to the news cycle. Things that might be more in the cultural ether, maybe profiles of people, or stuff like that. I did a couple fashion stories on the Golden Globes, what people wore, what people wore in the past, I interviewed a bunch of stylists, talked about what it all meant. I've done more interesting things than that, but that's the most recent one. I like writing features, you get the luxury of time, where it's more of a weekly deadline than a daily deadline. In the case [...]

Tell me about your job. I basically merch the entire store. I come up with the design layout, I work with the heads in Brazil to come up with what we're trying to create, and just create the Brazilian image for the store. Osklen has been around for about 30 years now, we started out as a surf company, our designer is a total outdoors guy and that's what the brand started as, and we've developed into a more fashionable look. We're pretty big in Brazil, we have 55 stores there.

Tell me about your job.

I'm a costume character. I work at birthday parties, corporate events, nightclubs, conventions and more. For example I recently dressed up as a parrot for carnival theme night at a nightclub. For the record, I'm not a furry. There's a difference between costume characters and Furries. Costume characters are for entertainment, fun, Furries are just creepy.

Tell me about your job. I'm executive director; June will mark my 10th anniversary here. I report to our board of directors, but basically I'm in charge of running the day-to-day operations of our organization. I manage our staff, I manage our Americorps programs—together with them we have a few dozen people. I'm the chief media person, the chief public spokesman. It's a lot of work but it's all worth it. The coalition has been around since 1983. Soup kitchens have existed in New York City for at least 100 to 150 years—they're also called missions. They deal mostly with skid row, stereotypical down-and-out and if I may [...]

Tell me about your job. As a web developer, I create and maintain databases. A database is where you put data, that's the idiot's version of it. Basically what I do is make the internet talk to a place where information of all types is stored. Databases can store sales leads, information for sites like Tumblr, they're used for everything. It's a good skill to have. I originally was a web designer and eventually I learned how to code. As the internet became more complex and more and more data was looking to be stored I started getting into that so I could progress with the internet and [...]

Tell me about yourself. I used to live in Manhattan, I studied art growing up. When I received my call I spoke to the vocation director about the contemplative life. I wasn't quite sure where God was calling me. I like children very much, at one point I was thinking of entering into an active order and working with children or orphans or doing missionary work. I prayed about it and after hearing about the contemplative life and coming here for the first time I walked in our chapel, and I knew in my heart that this was where God wanted me. A lot of the sisters and brothers [...]

Tell me about your job. Well, my job has changed and I've switched gears. I spent about 25 years as a composer exclusively working on documentaries, PBS and HBO stuff-"Sesame Street" for fun-mainstream network stuff for money. In the last 3-5 years I've started co-producing my own projects which are about people who have experienced profound trauma and come back from it.

Tell me about your job.

I'm a writer. I write a dating column for the Examiner.com. I also write poetry and I'm trying to get into lyrics and songwriting. I moved here from Texas because there was more going on here. I share dating advice, targeting women, but I've heard from the occasional man who reads too. I've found that most men today are clueless.