Work: Loving it, hating it, and getting through the shift

Jesse Eisenberg says community theater saved his life. Without it, we might not know him as Mark Zuckerberg and the social network. We might not have the zombie land as we know it now. But even Jesse Eisenberg knows that a lot of people just don't get musical theater. Musical theater is inherently very silly.

There's something so ridiculously earnest about it. On Cue with Tom Power, Jesse talks about his new film The Debut, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife-turned actor, and Paul Giamatti as a theater director who pushes her to her limits and beyond. Hear that conversation now on Cue with me, Tom Power. This is a CBC podcast. Plenty of memoirs have taken work as their subject, though there's often something exceptional about the nature of that work.

Maybe the author is a tech disruptor or major CEO, a political leader, or global celebrity. But occasionally, a different kind of book about work gets published. I was at work when I got the news, working in what's called arrivals, where when the flights come in, you go to the plane, you get the bags, and you dispense the bags on the carousel. That's Aaron Williams. He works as a ramp agent at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, one of the workers loading and offloading baggage, among other things.

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