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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-11-26 12:10 pm

Antick Musing's Fridays, Black and Otherwise

[...] [M]odern Westerners can be separated by the work they did when they were young and unskilled. One great mass worked in retail, selling goods of one kind or another. A second cohort worked in food service, waiting tables or working a grill. And the third group, seemingly the luck ones, were those rich or privileged enough not to have to work at all -- the ones who were children, then entirely students, and then set off on their careers, without ever having had "just a job."

[identity profile] ljgeoff.livejournal.com 2009-11-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. One of the feds at the center where I work said that his first job was trimming marijuana, when he was 13. (in Garden, Michigan)