October 31, 2006
Curious George: Occupational blogs? Do you have any recommendations for blogs that let me walk a mile in someone's occupational shoes? I want to read the ups and downs about working on a construction site, driving a train, being a flight attendant, being a mailman, whatever. I really haven't had much luck fishing this stuff out of the sea of teen angst and vaporous blogs. Recommendations?
A Copper
ooops - pressed post instead of preview before the post was finished - he also links to lots of other public sector occupational blogs on the right hand side.
I don't read this geezer - I just knew he was there!
So you want blog the builder, thomas the typepad engine, the simile high club, and postie the persistent poster?
Um, I dunno. Nearly everything "occupational" i've seen is (a) tech oriented, (b) political (generally newsfilterish), (c) somewhat exotic (sex workers, music biz, fake aristos). Why is this? Well, I guess a lot of people have neither the time nor the inclination to publish what's essentially a diary entry several times a week.
I'd note also that a flight attendant was fired over the content of her blog.
I'd try searching directly on blogger and some of the other big hosts, based on terms that interest you. A search on "job description" on blogger yielded: fthisjob.com, the "I hate my job" blogging community...
Mind you before you get to the occupation links on the copper site you have to run the gamut of a whole load of mad libertarians ...
gee, don't you want to read my I-never-write-in-it blog on the trials and travails of making panty-fetish porn??
I asked the same question last year, (the FPP question that is, not um, Medusa's) and here was the answer.
QA Insight Welcome to the exciting world of SQA.
Bouncer's Blog. (Also seconding Waiter Rant and Random Acts, above.)
Dr. Crippen writes my favorite blog. He complains a lot about the British medical establishment. However, he has a great sense of humor, really cares about his patients, and conducts discussions within the comments.
One of these days I am going to have to make a post about him.
Indie Escort
duh!
I came in here to mention two blogs, and I see that kitfisto and Koko beat me to both of them.
So um, what kitfisto and Koko said.
New York Hack. The Blog is winding down because she has a book deal, but the archives are a good read.
Awesome... oh man, you all have saved me from boredom while my computer crunches endless sets of data.
There are so many Librarian blogs it's ridiculous, but you could start with Jessamyn's Blog.
Half asleep so the google-fu is not rising--wasn't there a blog by a mortician around somewhere?
Kind of an average day in the life of Ed the Embalmer type thing?
Life of a Farm Blog
Though, it appears to be directly linked with Mahindra Tractor.
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