Jul 21, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 8: Feeling Drained

Dear Soft Labor, About a year ago, I suffered a major health crisis that left me physically functional but emotionally, financially, and worst of all, creatively drained.…

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Jul 14, 2025 5 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Roddy Schrock

Today's respondent is Roddy Schrock. Roddy Schrock is founder and lead homeopath at Ultradilute.…

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Jul 7, 2025 3 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Rob Giampetro

The Soft Labor Questionnaire, is simply that: A brief series of questions we’ve asked comrades in the field to answer about their own working experiences. Today’s respondent is writer, creative director, and current Head of Creative at Notion, Rob Giampetro, who is based in New York.…

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Jun 30, 2025 4 min read

Vol. 1, No. 7: Post-Career?

Dear Soft Labor, I enjoyed a significant run of art world success earlier in my career—degrees from major schools; gallery representation and strong sales; copious amounts of press—but the action has started to taper off as I’ve approached middle age.…

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Jun 23, 2025 4 min read

Introducing The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Hilary Eden

We’re introducing a new feature, The Soft Labor Questionnaire, which is simply that: A brief series of questions we’ve asked comrades in the field to answer about their own working experiences.…

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Jun 16, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 6: A Nepo Baby (and a reader's response to AI)

Dear Soft Labor, I work as a partner in a major architecture firm, a job I ultimately got through nepotism as my father is the firm’s (well-known) founder. I’m writing mostly out of guilt.…

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Jun 9, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 5: Fashionably Humiliated

Dear Soft Labor, I work as an entry-level gallerist in New York City. As one might imagine, there is a major disparity in pay between my position and those of, say, the gallery’s directors and partners. Everyone I work with seems to be independently wealthy, as expressed through stunning wardrobes.…

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Jun 2, 2025 4 min read

Vol. 1, No. 4: Overlooked

Dear Soft Labor, I have been working as an administrator for a mid-sized cultural nonprofit for about a decade—long enough that I’m embedded into the fabric of the place.…

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May 27, 2025 4 min read

Vol. 1, No. 3: Tapped Out

Dear Soft Labor, I run a small . . . let’s just call it a creative agency and am therefore a relentless self-marketer by necessity.…

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May 15, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 2: AI Anxiety Attack

Dear Soft Labor, I’m in my mid-twenties and work in a mid-sized commercial design agency—everything about the entire enterprise is pretty mid, to be honest.…

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May 1, 2025 6 min read

Vol. 1, No. 1: Feeling Triggered

Dear Soft Labor,  I am a recent Ivy League graduate and work in a major museum in a major city as an assistant to a globally-regarded curator who is shockingly abusive toward the museum’s entire staff.…

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