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Teacher
Firefighter
Translator
Rock Star
Safari Guide
Dental Hygienist
Nurse
UPS Driver
Interior Designer
Funeral Director
Animal Trainer
Judge
Telemarketer
Career Coach
Air Traffic Controller
Ice Cream Taste Tester
Store Clerk
Private Investigator
Homemaker
Priest
Sales Representative
Madam
Customs Inspector
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Actor
Truck Driver
Matchmaker
Fingerprint Analyzer
Clown
Prosecutor
Genetic Counselor
Model
Karate Instructor
Literary Agent
Phone Psychic
Glass Sculptor
Day Care Worker
Lobbyist
Talk Show Host
Software Engineer
Editor
Boot Camp Instructor
Entrepreneur
Golf Ball Diver
Hostage Rescuer
Pro Athlete
Insurance Salesperson
Highway Patrol Officer
Writer
Stuntwoman
Chef
Politician
News Anchor
Medical Researcher
Seamstress
Masseuse
Broadway Star
Farmer
Prison Warden
Hair Stylist
Hula Dancer
Therapist
Construction Worker
Surgeon
Talent Scout
Race Car Driver
Chimney Sweep
Chicken Farmer
Smoke Jumper

Thank you for your participation in This Day on the Job. We are honored to include you as one of hundreds of working women around the country who have volunteered to contribute a day diary to this book project.

Your day diary will cover the 24-hour period from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, 2007. In essence, a day diary is part itinerary: what you did and when you did it; and part journal: what is going through your head and heart throughout that day. Because the theme of this book is working women, we ask that you make sure to clarify your job duties when on the job, so that readers get a real sense of what it’s like to work as an administrative assistant, or a waitress, or an at-home mom, or a movie star.

Of course, a complete day diary of any working woman also encompasses all those other job-related activities, thoughts, and feelings that occur throughout any given day, whether you are multitasking on the way to daycare, celebrating at lunch with a coworker about her positive review, or tossing and turning at night over recent layoffs.

By creating a day diary and allowing us to share it with our readers, you will be contributing to the book’s power to reveal the reality of women’s working lives across the country.


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Day diary excerpts


7:00 a.m.
"My supervisor is out sick; hope he gets better. But what can I say, sounds like a good day for me."

8:00 a.m.
"I wait on sales calls to trickle in. By 8:11 I am bored. I pull out my new binoculars and look around the floor. We have an open cubicle layout with low walls. Zero privacy…"

10:17 a.m.
"Diaper change time. Wonder how many diapers I’ve changed in eleven years?"

11:59 a.m.
"My intern is copping a major attitude with me because I totally ripped apart his work. Serves him right for doing a half-ass job…"

1:23 p.m.
"Case finally finished. Patient is very obese and could not be extubated."

3:07 p.m.
"I am fortunate on this construction job to have an indoor bathroom…"

5:40 p.m.
"I’m getting 86ed—kicked to the curb, not on tenure track, been there too long, administration change, blah, blah, blah".

6:39 p.m.
"My client just left. She loved my jewelry designs! "

10:00 p.m.
"On to the next cop show, NYPD 24/7. Here we are, three prosecutors watching a show following cops on their jobs—we really need to branch out".

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