For this series I spent time at Kaladi Coffee in Denver asking folks how they lost a job. Stephanie was working in a hardware store with her boyfriend, who managed to get them both fired. You might think that’s all there is to the story, but there is more.
Oliver lost a job in engineering because the work just dried up during the recession, but he told me at Kaladi Coffee in Denver that this seeming misfortune has actually turned out to have a plus side.
Maggie has trouble getting to work on time, but that wasn’t specifically why she lost her job. From a series of conversations recorded at Kaladi Coffee in Denver, here is the rest of Maggie’s story.
Brian lost his job about six months ago. He’s been looking for work in his field but had to take manual labor jobs to get by. He tells me what he’s learned during this period of unemployment in this series recorded at St. Mark’s Coffee in Denver.
I’m talking with people at St. Mark’s Coffee in Denver about how they lost a job. Texanna says she changed her hairstyle and Ann Taylor didn’t approve. From a series of coffeehouse conversations on different themes recorded in Denver.
Deniz quit her job after struggling for more than a year to solve a complex problem in her work. She never figured it out. And she feels VERY badly about leaving the job. From a series of conversations I hosted and produced on a theme of losing a job, this one recorded at St. Mark’s Coffee in Denver.
From a series of conversations I hosted and produced at coffeehouses around Denver, here is Nathan’s answer to the question why did you lose a job. He tells me he had to quit working at a gym because he got into a messy relationship with a woman there.
Jennifer’s answer to the question I posed at The Market in Larimer Square was short and sweet. I asked what her therapist told her she should do. Jennifer said forgive everyone, everything. And wait until you hear what Jennifer had to learn to forgive!
From a series of conversations recorded and produced at The Market in Larimer Square, downtown Denver, I asked Brendan what his therapist said he ought to do. Brendan replied that he’s been on and off marijuana for several months. We talk about the triggers that make him want to smoke weed.