My eclectic career

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Katherine Lanpher is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, host of "Upstairs at the Square," an interview series that can be found at bn.com/upstairs, host of TIME Financial Toolkit on Time.com, contributing editor to More magazine, and substitute host for “The Takeaway,” a collaboration of WNYC, PRI, the BBC and the New York Times. Springboard Press published her essay collection, Leap Days. Contact: leapdays@gmail.com. Any comments? They go here..... Would love to hear from you.....

March 13, 2010

My eclectic career

If you click on the headline below this post, you’ll be directed to the latest edition of the podcast I host for TIME.com; it’s one of my favorite gigs. Every week, we take the financial news and try to make it accessible. Can you imagine a better time to try and make sense of what subprime lending really is? or what Option ARMS could do to the housing market again? And, really, if someone stopped you on the street, could you explain why we should care about the economy of Greece?

When people ask me what I do here in NYC, I always list the TIME.com gig, and the Upstairs gig, and then, if they have time, I’ll mention the stuff at MORE magazine, the subbing at WNYC, the occasional speaking gigs. These days, I want to mention that I’m training to be a workshop leader at the OpEd Project (www.opedproject.org). I usually drop in that I’m the jewelry lady at the Housingworks Thrift Store on West 10th (love my crew!) because it’s not just a volunteer gig to fight homelessness and AIDS, it’s my Friday night date.

I mention all this because when we were setting up for the Upstairs show on Thursday, the head of our sound crew, David Schnirman (you have to love a man who names his sound production company Hear No Evil) looked at me and said “You have the weirdest career ever. Man, you are like an octopus you have your arms in so much.”