VIDEO: What does the job market look like?

We'll have a big feature on Sunday about how the changing nature of employment is creating tough challenges for workers who lack the entrepreneurial instinct and motivation the economy increasingly demands. Now, see Colleen Harriss and Ethan Cherin talk about what the job market looks like to them.

August 31, 2013 at 1:49AM
Colleen Harriss, 27, lives in north Minneapolis and waits tables at Lucia's Restaurant in Uptown. After graduating from college with a degree in art history, she tried to build a career in the art world but gave up after a couple years of part-time work at a non-profit gallery. She's happy to work part-time Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Colleen Harriss, who waits tables in Minneapolis, and others talk about the changing job market in this Sunday's Star Tribune. (Dml - Star Tribune Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I've been working for a couple weeks on a story about how it's getting more difficult to find a cushy, permanent 9-to-5 job. The piece comes out Sunday, and I took a few videos while I was interviewing people along the way.

Here's Colleen Harriss, who works part-time at Lucia's Restaurant.

And here's Ethan Cherin, who teaches economics and political science at St. Paul Central High School.

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