TBD | Glen Henry
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Glen Henry got his superpowers through fatherhood. After leaving behind a job he hated and a manager he didn't get along with, he went to work for an equally demanding boss: his kids. He shares how he went from thinking he knew it all about being a stay-at-home parent to realizing he knew nothing at all -- and how he's now documenting what he's learned.
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features YouTube storyteller Glenn Henry recorded live at TEDx Mid-Atlantic 2017. |
| 0:08.0 | All right, I want to tell you how I got my superpowers through fatherhood. |
| 0:15.0 | I was working a job I hated, okay? And I don't know if anyone here ever worked the job they hated. |
| 0:20.0 | Has anyone here ever worked the job they hated. Has anyone here ever |
| 0:21.2 | worked the job they hated? Okay, good, because I'm not alone and I have something to confess, and I don't |
| 0:27.1 | you guys to judge me. It feels like a safe space. It's a safe space? Okay, good. Okay, I was working the job |
| 0:32.4 | I hated. My manager and I were not getting along, okay? I was sitting in my car, looking in the rearview mirror, |
| 0:39.1 | trying to figure out which friend I could call to call in a bomb threat, |
| 0:44.0 | so I didn't have to go back in the building. |
| 0:46.6 | Okay, this was having a lot of issues for me. |
| 0:50.0 | I was having a lot of issues at my job, |
| 0:51.4 | and I come home every day from work, |
| 0:53.3 | and my wife would ask me the same question. And when you hate my job, and I come home every day from work, and my wife would |
| 0:54.1 | ask me the same question. |
| 0:56.4 | And when you hate your job, this is the worst question anyone could ask you. |
| 1:00.3 | She'd say, hey, babe, how was your day? |
| 1:04.8 | And I'd say, are you bringing up old stuff? |
| 1:08.2 | I just left there. |
| 1:09.3 | I don't want to think about that place again. See, we were |
| 1:13.3 | spending about 40% of my income on child care. We had one child, and we were pregnant with |
| 1:19.2 | our second child, and we were trying to figure out how we were going to fix this whole thing, |
| 1:23.5 | this money situation, and she said, hey, babe, I got a great idea. I said, what's up? She said, |
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