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Editor’s Note – Sarah is my neighbor, keen observer and FB reporter on the absurd human behavior witnessed on her daily commute on the Minneapolis Light Rail Green Line. Here is a selection of her posts. That personal indignation is a first cousin to a sense of justice is an outlook we can all relate to. Rock on Sarah, your… Continue reading "Train Nonsense by Sarah B."
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My favorite job that I quit prematurely was as a carry-out “boy” at a well-known supermarket in Uptown, Minneapolis. I put it in quotation marks because we were almost all white, as I recall, not the people who usually had to endure being called boys, and because almost everyone was a teenager or a retired person. I was 21 and… Continue reading "No Tip Rule or My Favorite Job that I Quit Prematurely by Johnny Hazard"
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Most of us have worked a lot in out lives. It’s a part of life. And often, we’ve had bosses who cause us to wonder how they ended up in charge of anything in the first place. The worst part is if someone complains up the ladder about a bad boss they can end up in a worse situation… Continue reading "One for the Boss by Pat Shaughnessy"
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My friend told me about this temporary job at a garden center around Xmas. I could be a tree slinger, the person who loaded trees into or on top of people’s cars. That was kind of heavy work and I was a wimpy 15-year-old kid, too skinny. The other opportunity was to be a Santa’s Helper elf. Much better. We… Continue reading "Elf for a Day by Joanne Banger"
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I started hustling about the age of twelve or thirteen. There was money in the neighborhood of my middle class midwestern city. A young person with an entrepreneurial spirit could fill their pockets with tax free cash. Me, I had my mind on my money. What to do on summer vacation between 7th and 8th grade? I… Continue reading "Memoirs of a Neighborhood Hustler"
