“I don’t dream of labor”
Prompt: Write about the most interesting job you’ve had.
“I don’t dream of labor…”
- Farm stand operator
- Bagel schmearer
- Friday night food fryer and ice-skating guardian
- Airport intern
- University mail room foster child (w/holes in my shoes)
- Traveling knife salesman
- ESL curriculum developer
- Knife show branch manager
- Professional rube
- Aspiring art class nude model
- Yoga groupie and sycophant
- Outlet mall coffee store reject
- Lifeguard, swim instructor, tan teenage Mike + Ike eater and Wawa frequenter
- Unpaid classical liberalism intern (employed by the Koch brothers)
- Pregnant unwed mother-to-not-be
- Funemployed and traveling
- Campus mail deliverer
- Crate + Barrel stockroom worker (w/a physics degree)
- Three-job-rent-making substitute teacher and night-school attendee
- Eye-level peewee math teacher
- Physics teacher three times over
- Hired, quit, hired, fired, re-educated, hired, fired for real
- Per diem safe haven for school kids
- My own boss, at last…
