| Meanwhile, I had a number of low-paid jobs (one of them, in fact was below minimum wage) and, let me tell you, only a person who has worked very little in his or her life would think that to be ennobling. Looking for a job as a busboy or a waiter, I would try to impress a heartless manager listing my numerous (and dubious) talents, which was a grave strategic mistake, for I was never hired. My first job was for Greenpeace, since they had an inherent interest in misfits, and I worked for almost three years as a door-to-door canvasser, visiting numerous and often indistinguishable Chicago suburbs, which was a crash curse in middle-class America and unselfconscious babbling. I worked as kitchen help. I worked in several bookstores. I worked as an English-as-a-Second-Language teacher. I worked as a bicycle messenger.
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