{"id":862,"date":"2015-09-07T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-09-07T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:02:46","slug":"nice-work-if-you-can-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Nice Work if You Can Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miran\"<\/a>
\n<\/a>Workers work like dogs, and the tribute to work can only be marked by a temporary stay from what it celebrates. If you can’t stand your job, you certainly can’t imagine work as a realization of human potential, an aligning of effort and outcome, as a structure for creative flow. Marx understood that work that suits a person’s talents and skills makes him human. Simone Weil agreed, seeing the separation of a person from the intimacy of her work the description of alienation. \u00a0Work brought the freedom that Baudelaire sought from addictions, and of work for Picasso, what more can be said?<\/p>\n

For the migrants who are fleeing the Levant and Africa, food is necessity, but work is the sustaining prize.\u00a0\u00a0 The handsome fellow on the French magazine cover is a longtime friend of a dear friend in Paris. Miran squeezed his way into France from Kurdish lands in Turkey and did things right – like meeting my friend in a bar. But he also worked construction for years, studied, was a smart aleck, interacted with intellectuals and fellow immigrants, saved money to start cooking and opening a restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s sassy and quick, and got noticed for the cover that says, “I was a Migrant.” What he wanted was to work. And he wrestled it from the system. While whistling Cole Porter: “Nice work if you can get it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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