A day's work
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Ricardo Amunjera and Marc Themba are a happily married gay couple living in Namibia, where homosexuality is against the law. Relive the best bits of our live Q&A
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Jessica Barder: Cooking in the most hostile environment on earth is a challenge, but I'm living the most amazing adventure
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Jerome Hardy: I still live with my parents because I only make $9 an hour working at the Pentagon. If Obama wants to address inequality, he could start by helping low-wage government contractors
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I work for Sense International, championing disability rights and development, and helping to create an inclusive curriculum
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Alisa Suzuki: I started cake decorating as a hobby when I was 13. Now my job is to design cakes and transform visions into sugar paste
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Laurentina: I am striking today for better wages for my family and others like me. Most raises we get at McDonald's are only 5 or 10 cents
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The Colorado paper has appointed an editor for all things pot as the drug is set to become legal on January 1. Any questions?
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Andy Seth: There aren’t many jobs where you can do everything right and still lose tens of thousands of dollars. What do you want to know?
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Jerry Givens: I was responsible for putting 62 inmates to death in Virginia. I regret it deeply and now campaign to end capital punishment
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Lisa DiGiovine: I work on many different types of shows, but if it’s real, or semi-real, I’ve worked on it. So what would you like to know?
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I've been an embalmer for 14 years and see my share of bodies. Any questions?
Jenn Park-MustacchioJenn Park-Mustacchio:I spend my time with dead bodies, cleaning them and preparing them for funerals. It's delicate work. Go ahead, ask me anything
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We run food pantries in American cities. Have any questions for us?
Charles Meng and Herman CarnieEconomists may have declared the recession over, but plenty of US families need help from their local food banks
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Q&A: what's it like to be a furloughed park ranger?
Marc BlackburnSince the government shutdown began, many federal employees have been furloughed. For this special edition of our A Day's Work series, Marc Blackburn, a supervisory Park Ranger, explains what life without work has been like
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Scott Barbour: One Direction stayed at the hotel for a week. We had several hundred teen girls trying to gain access to the guest floors
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Suranga Mallawa: The Zaatari camp is the world's second largest, with 115,000 refugees. What would you like to know about my day's work?
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Willio Lacomme: For me, there's no good day. I'm a part-time employee, although I often work close to 40 hours a week and don't get benefits
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Dave Stieber: I grieved with my students after a classmate was killed, and have watched our school lose funding little by little. Any questions?
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Tyson Cornfield has been working on oil rigs in northern Canada for five years. He'll answer questions today from 2pm to 4pm ET
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Nancy Brenner: This is not a profession for wallflowers.' PR these days is a mix of emergency room triage, matchmaking and innovation
I am a man fighting for women's rights in the Middle East: any questions?
I work for a Lebanese gender equality NGO, running programmes to reform macho culture. Ask me anything