I worked in a shop.
I was a co-owner. I had points.
That meant they didn’t have to pay
any unemployment in on me. I quit anyway,
because I couldn’t live on $375 a month, before
taxes and social security were taken out. Other than that,
it was a good job. If I’d had an independent income.
If I didn’t need to pay rent and buy food for three people.
We lived out in the country, across the
Still, you have to live somewhere. You have to do something.
I got a job working construction as an electrician’s helper,
building a factory that made disposable beer bottles.