Archive for July 2007

Girl

Posted to Work on 15 July 2007, with 3 comments so far.

by Shelly—Age 43—Phoenix, AZ I wasn’t some messed-up teen trying to earn beer money. I was almost 30, at a weird place in life, and I was on my knees scrubbing the floor of an apartment laundry room with a chemical agent the inhalation of which, the bottle clearly stated in toxically red letters, had [...]

On

Posted to Work on 3 July 2007, with 2 comments so far.

by Lee–Age 44–Bellingham, WA My first job was as a Union cashier at a grocery store. At Dairy Queen I wore a white polyester uniform, sliced onions and looped tips on soft-serve cones. One summer I created a filing system for an oil company and dreamed of nothing but color-coded labels. I’ve cooked pizza and [...]