"Cool Job!" Unusual Careers and How to Manage Them

Editor-in-Chief, Lego Designer, War Reporter, Style Director, Record Company Founder, Porn Star. What do these people have in common? They have unique jobs you might like to know more about. 

Even if you have no intention of aspiring to photojournalism or porn stardom, the insightful interviews with professionals in the podcast "Hey, Cool Job!" are equal parts inspiring and thought-provoking. Host Mary H.K. Choi—who is also an essayist and a Young Adult fiction author—asks each interviewee about the life paths that led them to choose their careers and what drives them to keep going. This includes candid stories about challenges and bumps in the road. 

Recently, Choi launched a new "micro-pod"—many short episodes released every few days—called "Hey, Cool Life!"about "mental health and creativity." Including ways to stay sane when leading a creative life and how to balance life/work, it forms a useful counterpoint to the job-centric podcast. Having a "cool" career, after all, may not be the easiest or most stable path. In conjunction, the two series open up the imaginative space for what one might do with one's life.