I was fifteen, the job was mostly sweeping, and the man who hired me taught me more in one summer than school managed in four years.
A Dollar Sixty an Hour and a Name Tag |
I was fifteen, the job was mostly sweeping, and the man who hired me taught me more in one summer than school managed in four years. |
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I got the job because my father knew a man, and the man needed somebody to sweep. |
That was the entire interview. I stood in the back of a hardware store in a shirt my mother made me tuck in, and the owner looked at me for about four seconds and said he would see me Saturday at seven. He did not ask about my goals. He did not ask where I saw myself in five years. He asked if I could be there at seven, and I said yes, and that was the contract. |
A dollar sixty an hour. Saturdays, and after school three days a week once the school year started. |
The first thing I learned is that nobody was going to tell me twice. He showed me how he wanted the aisles swept, once, and then he walked away, and if it was wrong he did not lecture me about it, he just looked at it, and then looked at me, and that was somehow worse than being |
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