Blue-Collar Blues

I graduated from college in my mid-20s after a series of interesting jobs: driving a truck for UPS; working at the Todd-Hoboken Shipyards in Jersey stripping WW II Navy destroyers (destined to be filled with wheat and floated along the Upper Hudson as part of the mothball fleet); and serving in the U.S. Army infantry during the Vietnam War. I also unloaded boxcars of canned goods and hawked beer at the old Yankee Stadium, shoveled streets and drove a cab from late afternoon till early morning whenever I needed an extra buck.

When I was young, these types of jobs […]

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