Finding Freedom As Cheap, Replaceable Help In My First Work Experience As A Shoe SalemanWhen I got my first full time job, as a shoe salesman, what I wanted was steady income to pay my share of the rent with enough leftover for food, clothes and girls. I was seventeen, and I'm not sure that's the right order of preference, according to my priorities at the time. After walking out with nowhere really to go after another raging argument with my father, I hitchhiked into town to see my, then, best friend Bruce. I was looking for temporary shelter but ended up sleeping for a few weeks on a daybed in the apartment he shared with Bob. It was Bob's apartment, a one bedroom in Binghamton, where Bruce slept on the couch in exchange for help with the rent. I agreed to kick in a share, too, which meant I needed a job immediately. I had no cash at all, even for food. Just having graduated from high school, Bruce needed something full time too. We decided to go out job hunting together. In Binghamton, New York, in the 1960s, Endicott Johnson was one of the first places you looked. The company had made Binghamton's younger neighbors, Johnson City and Endicott, into company towns under the guidance of its founders. Although gradually moving its manufacturing south to states where the absence of labor unions kept salaries dirt cheap, Endicott Johnson, with its blocks of shoe making factories and retail outlets scattered throughout the Triple Cities, was always in need of local help, especially cheap, untrained help. Bruce and I were about as untrained as you can be. Just out of high school, my friend's vocational experience amounted to tending the counter part time at a camera store, and apart from my short rancorous career as a paperboy, my history consisted of a single season at Christmas as a stock boy. Quitting school for the second time as part of the package in leaving home, I didn't even have a diploma. But in a gesture of generosity directed at myself, I gave myself one when Bruce and I took the city bus out to the shoe manufacturer's headquarters in Endicott. In the days before resumes were as common (and artificially seasoned) as popcorn at the movies, you could put just about anything on an application, especially if you were young and not expected to have a history. They never checked, and being a high school dropout disqualified you from everything decent. I was a kid without connections. Creativity was required. As expected, Endicott Johnson needed untrained talent eager to find work, and within days, Bruce and I were both entry level shoe salesmen for our hometowns primary employer. My store was walking distance from our apartment in downtown Binghamton, Bruce's a longer commute in Endicott. Our starting salaries were $62.50 a week. I felt like a king. Reality would soon show me how far from royalty I was, but for now, having secured myself as independent, I took that throne seriously. Even though I was sleeping on a daybed and living on burgers and spaghetti, I was free. Going To Work As A Shoe SalemanThe World According To Footwear Working full time instantly shot you into the adult world of paychecks, bill paying and a little extra cash to be spent however the hell you wanted. Being a shoe salesman was the easiest job possible for anyone with a bright personality. A bright personality is one thing I always had ready to plug in. Five of us worked at the store on Court Street. Joe, the manager, was the diligent, patient type of guy who'd fit in on any television show. He mostly stayed in the back, in a small office behind racks of shoes being rotated in and out of the selling floors. Joe looked a lot like the guy who was married to Maude on TV, ten years later. I forget his name. Joe was calmer, though, not being married to an irritating TV concoction like Bea Arthur's. Out front, Peg and Mike managed the storefronts divided between men's and women's, each with its own entrance and display windows. We were connected through the stockroom in the back, outside the view of customers. I worked as Mike's assistant, and Peg had part time help on her side. A thing I learned was that, when a workplace is characterized by routine that's easily mastered, people will find a way to complicate it, to set up a challenge, and the degree of participation in that has to do with the self confidence of those involved. The challenges don't have to have anything to do with work. For Mike, who was serious about embedding himself permanently in that store until he got promoted to manager, this meant killing off the monotony by telling stories about alleged adventures with women. A married man with a child, he fulfilled two purposes. He enriched his fantasy life with a gullible listener while taking personal risks that were no riskier than they were virtual. In virtual reality, Mike was ahead of his time. And I wasn't yet aware of how many great fictions were wasted every day in private male blabbing. I never got to know Peg, who was a personal friend of Joe's, well. There was the physical presence of a wall, of course, but there was also a waspishness that reinforced the separation. The cause had more to do with disliking the job and the circumstances that made her take it than with me. At least, I hoped it did. Air Jordan 5 Light Graphite White Wolf Grey ,Laney 5s Air Jordan Spizike Space Blue Wolf Grey 3s Last Shot 14s Air Jordan 3 Bright Crimson Air Jordan 11 Bred 2012 Championship Cigar 6s Air Jordan 6 Olympic Gold Medal Pack Bel Air 5s jump to contentmy subreddits limit my search to /r/crossfituse the following search parameters to narrow your results:see the search faq for details. 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