odd jobs

Odd jobs, fair edition

At the end of the Coffeyville Fair and Rodeo one year the PA system had an announcement looking for some help to tar down the rides. Since I had never done it before I thought,why not? When the fair closed we gathered at the office where we were divided into crews to tear down oneContinue reading “Odd jobs, fair edition”

Guinea Pig

In the 80s I was a guinea pig for a drug testing company. A drug pusher hired an outside contractor to insure that its generic drug worked the same as the original. We were the guys ,and all of us were guys, who took the pills and gave blood samples to measure how fast theContinue reading “Guinea Pig”

As I wind down my working years, I have been looking back at some of the odd jobs I have had over the years. Side hustles are not anything new among working class people with a high school education like me. Recent college graduates seem to think they have discovered moonlighting. I hate to giveContinue reading “Odd jobs”