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I had a boss once who told us why he got serious about school: His dad had him work in the lumber mill one summer. He noticed in a few days that none of the ol
by readthenotes1 2y ago
I had a boss once who told us why he got serious about school:
His dad had him work in the lumber mill one summer. He noticed in a few days that none of the old timers still had all 10 fingers.
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An old relative told me why the source of hens frugality: The summer hen turned 10 was spent mowing lawns around his small town. At the end of the summer, hen spent all that money in a few hours at the fair.
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- atoav 2y agoIn my country every kid had to do some internship as a teen (from school), I remember carrying half a ton of tiles into the third floor with no elevator while my collegues told me about doing nothing in their boring office jobs. At least I learned how to lay tiles in bathrooms. It wasn't as if I didn't plan to study before, but this gave me some respect for those doing that kind of construction work. It was hard, but mentally it was harder to work with troubled kids.
- MrMcCall 2y agoI moved a three-foot-high stack of 4x8' sheetrock from one section of strip mall through the gap in the uncovered metal studs to the next one over, maybe 10ft away. Sheetrock is heavy and unwieldy. Such mindless (but necessary) work. Unforgettable. So, yeah, I've got much respect for our hard working brothers and sisters, even if I only did it for a summer. But I have even more respect for you, friend. Trying to help troubled kids is infinitely more difficult and, I imagine, draining. I hope you feel the joy of your (perhaps rare) successes in helping another human being feel like someone cares about them. My father, after retiring from his outstanding 21yr enlisted Navy career, finished his teaching degree summa lum laude. His student teaching semester was in a "last chance" high school, where a student got in his face one day. He took his degree and got a job driving heavy equipment like graders for a construction firm. He was/is far too old-school for that shit. Peace be with you, friend.
- codpiece 2y agoAre you referring to something other than a female chicken?
- 0_____0 2y agoswedish neuter pronoun
- pcthrowaway 2y agoIs this a new neo-pronoun I'm not familiar with yet?
- dagw 2y agoIt was first coined in the 60s and has been floating around since, but it's really only seen regular use in the past decade or so.
- codpiece 2y agoThank you!
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- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoThis reminds me of something Jimmy Carr said. Oh! gender neutral elder, oh! gender neutral elder, what’s a joke? YOU ARE!
- isoprophlex 2y ago"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...
- laserlight 2y agoI'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.
- drmpeg 2y agoSame here. The summer I mowed lawns in 1973, I spent all the money on pinball and pizza in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Some of the older pinball machines were still a nickel.
- Isamu 2y agoI have to ask: what did you get for a lawn at that time? My lawn mowing career started maybe five years later but I remember 7 dollars being good pay. On the other hand I mowed some gigantic areas for that pay, and sometimes extremely high grass. That was sometimes hours on very steep ground
- drmpeg 2y agoI can't remember now, but I want to say less than 5 dollars. I do remember that one of my customers with a fairly large lawn paid 2 dollars an hour, which I was very happy with.