I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
I often conduct interviews in my truck.
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.