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"The hardest thing I do every day is decide to go outside or not."
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StoryCorps 510: Head First
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“Learning became almost a spiteful activity to prove the teachers at the high school wrong.”
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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
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The Passion and Purpose of Work

Celebrating Labor Day with wisdom from people who found their calling

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"When I first bought the building, everybody thought that I was crazy."

"When I first bought the building, everybody thought that I was crazy."
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"The pay’s horrible, the benefits are worse, but I have the most gorgeous view in the entire city."
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"The pay’s horrible, the benefits are worse, but I have the most gorgeous view in the entire city."
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"The sewing machine and the needle and the thimble, that's it for me, you know."
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"The sewing machine and the needle and the thimble, that's it for me, you know."
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"At the time, I was tutoring at an after-school program..."
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"At the time, I was tutoring at an after-school program..."

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Clean Streets
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Facundo the Great

Back to School

Stories of teachers and friends

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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."

Aaron and his teacher, Celeste-Davis Carr, remember when he revealed to her that he was homeless.
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Making It

Making It

Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda tells his former teacher, Alex Fernandez, about his clever money-making endeavors as a kid in Chicago's Little Village.
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"I spent eight hours a day putting hooks into bungee cords."
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"I spent eight hours a day putting hooks into bungee cords."

Mechanical engineer and MIT graduate Noramay Cadena tells her daughter, Chassitty Saldana, about working in a factory alongside her parents.
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"What was the hardest thing that happened to you in Iraq?"

"What was the hardest thing that happened to you in Iraq?"

Eighth grader Jenna Power talks with her seventh grade Social Studies teacher, Erik Booker, about his military service and his deployment to Iraq.

Each week, the StoryCorps podcast shares these unscripted conversations, revealing the wisdom, courage, and poetry in the words of people you might not notice walking down the street.