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TAKE THIS BLOG TO WORK - MOVIES FOR NERDS

Instead of Take Your Kid to Work Day once a year, it's now Take Your Kid Begging on the Train with You Day every single day. Tons of our friends have formed these unemployment gangs where they've just been hanging out in the park and finding free shit to do all summer long. But guess what? Jobs still exist! And there are some good ones too. They are out there and people work them everyday. We talked to one of these nice job-havers, because we're tired of feeling jealous of our unemployed buddies who're just messing around, having a blast all day, and we're also tired of hearing people with jobs whine about how "stressed" they are all the time.

Vice: Hi Millie, is it true that one can actually maintain a career these days? That's crazy! What exactly do you do?
Millie: My job is programming the movies on Turner Classic Movies. I have to think up themes for every day, like an entire day of movies by a certain director or all movies about elevators or whatever. In addition, I also helped create (and program) "TCM Underground," which is a late night cult movie show we air on Friday nights.

Tell me about a typical workday in the life of you.
In the mornings, I usually answer emails. I'm basically the go-to person in Programming for schedules, nerdy movie info, etc., so people are always asking me for stuff. Then I might have a couple meetings, talk to some cult movie weirdos on the phone, whatever. Usually the afternoon is when I work on the schedule: come up with ideas, movies to play, movies for our VOD, and so on. Then I make sure everything we scheduled isn't a giant thematic disaster and is timed out properly. Some days I'll watch a movie to see how many times someone says "asshole." On occasion I'll get a call from an 85-year-old woman in Canada asking me why her TV doesn't work. A lot of letters from prison run by my desk too. People on lockdown love TCM, apparently.