{"id":20841,"date":"2018-03-17T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2018-03-19T08:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:21:30","slug":"a-checkered-career-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2018\/03\/17\/a-checkered-career-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A checkered career in the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People tend to define themselves by the work they do. These days I tell people I&#8217;m a web guy at NCPR.<\/p>\n<p>But in my family everybody has pretty much always kept the nose to the grindstone. Mom was a farm girl who started paid work in a WWII defense plant and worked full time almost the whole time she was raising three kids as well as after we had flown. My dad worked a vast number of sales jobs after the war until he settled into teaching in the 1950s. So I got my working papers as soon as I turned fourteen and have been beavering away in some kind of gainful employment continually over the last half century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20842\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20842\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20842 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Nick Youngson, Creative Commons, some rights reserved\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/03\/careerCC.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/thebluediamondgallery.com\/c\/career.html\">Nick Youngson<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In true North Country fashion, however, I have done a little of this and a little of that, patching together a living with whatever kind of work I could lay claim to. In one of those fifty-year summing up moments I thought it would be fun to make a list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newspaper carrier<\/li>\n<li>Babysitter<\/li>\n<li>Lawnmower<\/li>\n<li>Drywall and mudder<\/li>\n<li>Paper hanger<\/li>\n<li>Floor refinisher<\/li>\n<li>House painter<\/li>\n<li>Warehouseman<\/li>\n<li>Mover<\/li>\n<li>Roadie<\/li>\n<li>Short order cook<\/li>\n<li>Busboy<\/li>\n<li>Dishwasher<\/li>\n<li>Cleaner<\/li>\n<li>Pizza driver<\/li>\n<li>Letterpress job printer<\/li>\n<li>Small press publisher<\/li>\n<li>Printshop owner<\/li>\n<li>Offset press operator<\/li>\n<li>Printshop manager<\/li>\n<li>Publication designer<\/li>\n<li>Copy editor<\/li>\n<li>Graphic artist<\/li>\n<li>Website designer<\/li>\n<li>Web manager<\/li>\n<li>Web editor<\/li>\n<li>Feature writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not to mention such one-day gigs as poetry performer, guest preacher, and one long cold night doing surveillance like a real private eye.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have been wondering what a B.A. in English might qualify one to do, the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of the things you have done over the years to keep body and soul together? 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