Word: apprenticeship
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...works three. They have no nanny, and they each assume the child-care and household duties on the days they are at home. "In the beginning, when I first found myself with a six-month-old baby, it was frightening," Paul says. But he also argues that his apprenticeship was possible only because his wife was willing to relinquish her power in the . home. "It's something a man really can't do when a wife is at home," he says. "You have to be thrown into the deep...
Twenty years ago, Studs Terkel's Working explored the lives of Americans with jobs that seemed like long-term marriages, frustrating, satisfying, boring, rewarding: familiar, anyway, and built on a rock foundation. Careers had a kind of narrative line. It began with something like apprenticeship and then, in the ideal model, proceeded through hard work and merit to raises, promotions, success and eventual retirement with pension. Seniority and experience meant something: work was as close as Americans came to the Confucian. Getting fired was a disgrace, the scarlet letter...
Reno was appointed Dade County prosecutor in 1978, and voters returned her to the office five times, despite a rough apprenticeship. Miami endured three nights of racial rioting in 1980 after her office failed to convict four police who allegedly beat a black insurance man to death. Reno regained trust by opening her office to blacks, Hispanics and women...
Fortunately, you are in the hands of a trained professional. To obtain a hair stylist license in Massachusetts, one must take a 1,000 hour course in hair school, pass an examination on both the practice and theory of styling and complete a two-year apprenticeship, according to Dale and Edward...
Berger served that apprenticeship in Jimmy Carter's State Department, first writing speeches for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and later taking on a broader advisory role. "He writes very clearly, simply, eloquently, in primary colors rather than purple," says Tony Lake, then his boss at State, who will now, as Clinton's National Security Adviser, be Berger's boss at the White House...