4/26/2023 0 Comments Ia writer linuxThe wages were $6.50 for ten hours of hoeing.ĭespite the heat, which was well above 100☏ every day, we wore long sleeve shirts and straw hats with sombrero-wide brims. Quarter-mile rows, half a mile round trip before returning to the canteen truck where tepid water was free, but ice-cold pop was deducted from your day’s pay. ![]() On the other hand, before landing a job at the root beer stand, I hoed cotton for two weeks in the Arizona summer in 1961. I’ve been lucky in work - even in high school working at the air-conditioned BK Root Beer stand with the best burgers and fries in the town of Coolidge, Arizona. They bid us pause for many reasons, including “there but for fortune go you or I.” They prod us to ask what exactly is the meaning of work? This is an expanding category and even members of the lower end of the middle class are finding themselves wading in these waters.Īnd at the bottom of the structure, there are the ever-increasing number of the jobless, including street people who have given up on the system altogether. There are also those for whom work consists of low-paying jobs, often more than one, to try to survive. For others, it’s about working enough to get by comfortably and create a balanced life between work and home, profession and personal interests and pursuits. ![]() This week’s focus is on “work.”įor some, work is about acquiring wealth and living a luxurious lifestyle - the apex of the capitalist dream. My goal is to write a short, somewhat autobiographical essay on each topic. In a writing course I’m taking, we focus on a different theme each week.
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