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Originally Posted by ThatSeventiesGuy
Finally, a fellow blue-collar stiff.  Me, I'm a writer, but I have a crappy retail loading dock job to pay the bills. Not being able to do any kind of algebra past the most basic pretty much precludes me from any college degrees, sadly. Never mind the straight A's in history and English. |
what sort of writing? Yep. English and history - my major and minor decades ago at Cal-Stanislaus, ended up in lumber mills, paper mills and finally on a shipping dock. But, hey, it paid my bills and kept me sorta on the good side of sane. There's worse fate in life. Blue collar stiffs unite! 
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