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How Vermont millennials' relationship with work is different than other generations

A page from Issy Manley's new book, No One Wants to Work Anymore, illustrates the confusion and uncertainty of working in the service industry in spring 2020.
Issy Manley
A page from Issy Manley's new book, No One Wants to Work Anymore, illustrates the confusion and uncertainty of working in the service industry during the pandemic.

Live call-in discussion: Millennials' relationship with work is different from their parents', and it's changed even more since the pandemic. This hour, we hear from people reevaluating their careers, including a cartoonist with a new book called , a career coach in Burlington and a Ripton musician.

Our guests:

  • Allyson Sprinkel, owner of and
  • Sarah King,
  • Issy Manley, cartoonist, author of , and graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction

Broadcast at noon Wednesday, June 28, 2023; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
Andrea Laurion joined ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.