The pleasure of menial jobs

25Jan12

I’ve had many jobs in my life. Some paid $3 an hour and some paid $250 an hour. Some  had me scrubbing the toilets that were the bathroom of choice for the local homeless and some had me give talks in front of CEOs. If money was not an issue, if the only stipulation was [...]

Filed under: Berlin, Clothes, Germany, London, Work, Youth   |  Closed
Tags: career, factory, jobs, menial, self esteem, work

Gloomy Sundays

15Jan12

When I was a teenager, I got shipped off to Berlin once a year. Those couple of weeks were by far the happiest times in my young life. Theoretically I was supposed to babysit my two young cousins but practically I would spend many days roaming the city entirely unsupervised. This might strike observers as [...]

Filed under: 1980s, Berlin, Childhood, Germany, Photographers, Youth   |  Closed
Tags: 1980s, adolescence, Berlin, freedom, Michael Schmidt, nothingness, Sundays