Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abeeb.

Friends, I'm going to do multiple podcasts this year about work.

And I do mean specifically my work, but work in general.

My three main jobs really are writing, podcasting, and teaching.

The teaching I do through giving Ulysses courses

at the Museum of Literature here in Ireland, through giving workshops and my better writing

coaching services. Because one of the astonishing things to me is that in spite of everything

that's going on in the world, the hellish landscape that so many

people are encountering or watching or spectating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, obviously

warves, housing crises, material degradation of the environment, overcrowding and over density, the daily scramble,

the fears of fascism. In spite of all of that, we still have to work. It's like daily work is

somehow a larger principle than the horrors that are going on. Now, I understand that there

is plenty of analysis available about how the fact that we

have to work every day actually contributes and forms the foundation for many of those problems.

But I want to think just about what it means to work now and to pull apart the kinds of work I do and hopes that it offers something to you.

So I'm going to start with the most obvious place, the podcasting, because you're listening

to podcasts. To do that, I'm going to give you a very, very quick podcast state of the nation, or state of the world, I guess.

And then I'm going to talk about my history with this show, how I ended up doing this, the good stuff,

cool stuff about doing the show, the very hard stuff, some of the spiritual stuff, and then also the economic aspects of it.

This is not like a podcast 101 for people.

This is actually kind of looking into histories and cultures of podcasting through my own experience.

And I do think it'll be more interesting than maybe that sounds at the outset. I'm still questioning whether or not

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