![]() ![]() Monique Polak offers a refreshingly educational and well-researched view into the multifaceted topic of work in her new book Why Humans Work: How Jobs Shape Our Lives and Our World, illustrated by Suharu Ogawa. These raven masters look after the resident ravens believed to protect the tower and the royal family. If you like ravens, consider a job at the Tower of London in England, the only place in the world that employs raven masters. If you enjoy pushing people around, you might apply for a job in Tokyo, where oshiya, or pushers, literally push people onto crowded trains. They know from the sound whether the cheese is good enough to eat. These testers work in Italy too, where they tap wheels of cheese. ![]() If you can never have enough Parmesan cheese on your pasta, you might want to become a Parmigiano-Reggiano tester. If your dream is to be a gondolier, you had better live in Venice, where gondoliers operate flat-bottomed boats called gondolas. Geography can influence the kind of work children do or dream of doing. ![]()
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