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

Into the very opposite direction

29Dec11

Dropping out of high school was surprisingly easy. One day, instead of going to school, I went to the local job center to look for an apprenticeship for tailoring. They sent me to a clothes factory a few villages over to take an aptitude test. I had to follow a few drawn curlicues on a [...]

Filed under: Books, Childhood, Clothes, Germany, Thomas Bernhard, Youth   |  Closed
Tags: adolescence, apprenticeship, Der Keller, factory, job center, literature, quitting high school, relief, Salzburg, Scherzhauserfeldsiedlung, school, The Basement, the opposite direction, Thomas Bernhard