I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Saturday
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Freelancing Heritage
Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 12:18PM
Surprise! Working 'gigs' as a freelancer was once the norm. Professor Stephen Mihm of the U of Georgia shed light on how Americans went from working on farms or apprenticing in a trade, to plying one's skills as a contingent worker in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. The advent of factories introduced more stable work, but even then people had to find fill-in work when business dipped. While we freelancers may not want to claim hobos and tramps as our early mentors, we do share some of the perils of self-employment. We now account for at least 40% of the workforce; that is comparison to 12.5% in 1990. Fasten your seatbelts - we are in new, old, territory. (Source: Hartford Courant 7/19/2015, via Bloomberg View)
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