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Dec 20, 2023Liked by Rosana Francescato

I love these early-work-days retrospectives (I went on to read the preceding one); they do trigger memories. My bad jobs were temp assignments, about which the best I can say is that they were temporary! And the worst, always, will be the one day at a collection agency in a small office crowded with collectors working the phones to harangue and threaten people. I was assigned to type out checks (this was in the late 1970s) to pay a stack of bills. The boss failed to specify that I was to type checks for ONLY ONE of two stacks of bills, set there side by side. I industriously typed checks to pay both stacks. Horrors! He scolded me roundly for MY mistake.

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The horror! Aren't those early bad jobs great in making us appreciate later ones more? Not that any job is perfect, especially in our current capitalist treadmill. Thanks for reading, and I'm glad that things improved for you as well!

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Rosana Francescato

Glad you got out of those hellscapes and persevered until you created the career you wanted!

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I didn't spend that long in any of them!

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Rosana Francescato

Oof, me too!!

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Dec 12, 2023Liked by Rosana Francescato

Thank goddess you got that job at Harper, 'cuz I got to meet you!!!!

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Yes, indeed! I shudder to think of life without having met you!! Better not to entertain such thoughts at all.

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