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Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

What Even Is a Viable Career Anymore? with Paul F. Tompkins

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Paul F. Tompkins opens up about career insecurity, creative joy, and why the secret to survival in a crumbling industry might just be doing it yourself. If you want to hear more from today’s conversation with Paul F. Tompkins, including his dumbest money decision ever and the surprisingly smart investment he made that paid off big, join us at patreon.com/pastdue. You’ll get exclusive extras, extended interviews, and first dibs on upcoming surprises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

0:05.0

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

0:10.0

Hello!

0:11.0

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

0:13.0

Daddy!

0:14.0

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all. that's term time working offered at amazon 10 weeks

0:25.8

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0:31.0

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0:36.4

to help you start run and grow your business

0:38.9

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0:43.7

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0:48.6

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0:58.7

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1:06.6

When I started in show business, it was a completely different industry than it is now.

1:11.7

How do you stay relevant and keep building a career in an industry where stability is a myth?

1:16.3

Paul F. Tompkins knows better than most. Success doesn't mean security.

1:24.4

The thing I never got taught. At the time when things were going really good in the TV industry for me, where I was working, things would come and go.

1:30.5

But there was always in the back of one's mind that something will come along.

1:39.5

Paul Lev Tompkins has been a fixture in comedy for decades, but even he has had to reinvent himself to survive in an industry to keep shifting under his feet.

1:41.9

Now, I don't think you can say that.

1:44.9

I think you have to be the thing that comes along.

1:50.7

Paul's story might make you wonder if being really, really talented is enough.

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