WORK LIFE

A POINTCAST PUBLICATION / OPENING SHIFT

What work does to a life, and what a life does back.

A PointCast publication about jobs, tools, ambition, boredom, management, money, lunch, clothes, commutes, exits, and the emotional weather of getting something done.

Graphic PointCast WORK/LIFE cover with a cream timecard, cobalt clock, orange punch mark, chartreuse field, and black schedule lines bending out of office formation PLAY ISSUE 001 ↗

ISSUE 001 / MONDAY, AUGUST 3 / BLOCK 0555

It’s just another Manic Monday.

Eighteen tracks for clock-in comedy, friction, flow, identity, and the part where work has to return you to your actual life.

Monday is the opener, not the subject. The subject is the whole arrangement: what we do, what it costs, what it gives us, and who is still there when the screen goes dark.
tracks
18
runtime
1 hr 10 min
opening song
The Bangles
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THE PUBLICATION / SIX DESKS

The job is never only the job.

WORK/LIFE follows the working day outward: into bodies, rooms, relationships, neighborhoods, money, tools, taste, and time.

  1. 01

    The Shift

    Routines, commutes, calendars, uniforms, clocks, and the choreography of beginning.

  2. 02

    Office Weather

    Culture, management, meetings, morale, power, and the pressure nobody put in the deck.

  3. 03

    Tool Drawer

    Software, notebooks, machines, shortcuts, policies, and objects that change the job.

  4. 04

    Lunch

    Breaks, third places, desk food, walks, friendship, and the small return of the self.

  5. 05

    Payroll

    Rates, value, benefits, credit, ownership, precarity, and what the number leaves out.

  6. 06

    Exit Interview

    Quitting, changing course, retirement, reinvention, refusal, and the life after the title.

EDITORIAL PROMISE / V1

Useful, funny, reported, alive.

  1. 01Start with a real behavior, object, tension, or working day.
  2. 02Keep labor, management, ownership, and risk visible.
  3. 03Make every issue pleasurable enough to read off the clock.
  4. 04Give the human page a machine-readable twin and a permanent receipt.

ON THE WORKTABLE / OPEN BRIEFS, NOT PUBLISHED STORIES

The desk we bring home. Lunch isn’t a bug. Forty-seven tabs and one physical notebook.

WORK/LIFE publishes when there is a working truth worth keeping. Monday is an opening scene, not the publication boundary.