Nick Beadle
@jobsthat.work
Making the jobs that work at JOBS THAT WORK: http://www.jobsthat.work
Consultant. Former DOL workforce chief of staff. Workforce and grants expert.
Note the trees because the dirt is temporary.
Consultant. Former DOL workforce chief of staff. Workforce and grants expert.
Note the trees because the dirt is temporary.
I don’t know if I’m going hard enough on my social graphics. No reason.
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I don’t know if I’m going hard enough on my social graphics. No reason.
Not what you want in a letter from the Judiciary Committee.
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Not what you want in a letter from the Judiciary Committee.
I understand the Post is setting up the next graf, where they talk about how she took a fifth of her trips to states where she has some personal tie, but 36 states is a damn lot for how little this tour has moved policy.
January 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I understand the Post is setting up the next graf, where they talk about how she took a fifth of her trips to states where she has some personal tie, but 36 states is a damn lot for how little this tour has moved policy.
Consider this my contribution to public service journalism for the year:
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Consider this my contribution to public service journalism for the year:
This is not what scale means in business.
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is not what scale means in business.
Babies are here to make you feel things you don’t want sometimes, for example.
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Babies are here to make you feel things you don’t want sometimes, for example.
Who could’ve ever foreseen there would be “social satire” in a 40yo book about a man being hunted for a TV show used to distract the masses from how their government is run?
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Who could’ve ever foreseen there would be “social satire” in a 40yo book about a man being hunted for a TV show used to distract the masses from how their government is run?
"Oh look, it's Tommy Wiseau's Hulk."
That's all I've got. What are we doing here?
That's all I've got. What are we doing here?
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Oh look, it's Tommy Wiseau's Hulk."
That's all I've got. What are we doing here?
That's all I've got. What are we doing here?
Some of the silliest political calculus I’ve seen in a while.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Some of the silliest political calculus I’ve seen in a while.
Friends we continue to talk about the ADA and I’m thrilled that its existence is finally being acknowledged.
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Friends we continue to talk about the ADA and I’m thrilled that its existence is finally being acknowledged.
Old Man Sting is terrifying. I know he couldn’t go gray while he was still active, but holy crap.
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Old Man Sting is terrifying. I know he couldn’t go gray while he was still active, but holy crap.
Reading Jeff Pearlman’s 1990s Cowboys book and it’s an entertaining portrait of the interpersonal dynamics of traumatized man children, their use of drugs and sex to cope, and how they come together to turn into a troubled yet unstoppable force.
Then this guy shows up and the book gets really good.
Then this guy shows up and the book gets really good.
October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reading Jeff Pearlman’s 1990s Cowboys book and it’s an entertaining portrait of the interpersonal dynamics of traumatized man children, their use of drugs and sex to cope, and how they come together to turn into a troubled yet unstoppable force.
Then this guy shows up and the book gets really good.
Then this guy shows up and the book gets really good.
They let me name my workshop for this week’s conference in Kalamazoo.
September 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
They let me name my workshop for this week’s conference in Kalamazoo.
Paid JTW readers got to watch me to predict the future this morning.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Paid JTW readers got to watch me to predict the future this morning.
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"I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is my favorite alt-country song.
August 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is my favorite alt-country song.
I’m sorry, but I’m from rural Alabama and the first time I saw this NE DC felt more like home than any place I’d lived during my adult life.
August 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m sorry, but I’m from rural Alabama and the first time I saw this NE DC felt more like home than any place I’d lived during my adult life.
The other problem here is Lewis doesn’t know his audience. As in he has no clue who his audience is. In the article above, he’s pitching Fox viewers. A few months earlier, he’s literally pitching Semafor DURING AN INTERVIEW and has to be reigned in.
August 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The other problem here is Lewis doesn’t know his audience. As in he has no clue who his audience is. In the article above, he’s pitching Fox viewers. A few months earlier, he’s literally pitching Semafor DURING AN INTERVIEW and has to be reigned in.
I found it! The executive director of the TNGOP sent this to me in 2016. I know there was an ad I can’t find, but I’m pretty sure there’s a very dumb mailer too.
August 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I found it! The executive director of the TNGOP sent this to me in 2016. I know there was an ad I can’t find, but I’m pretty sure there’s a very dumb mailer too.
Me when my federal leave payout hit in January.
August 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Me when my federal leave payout hit in January.
Come on, Axios. Really? Shocker?
August 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Come on, Axios. Really? Shocker?