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About all you hear these days is that it’s time to “tighten our belts.” The economy is in trouble and we’re in trouble right along with it so we all better get used to making do with less. Finally, my life experience will come in handy. I am used to being poor. The poorest part of my life, the time when I had the least amount of resources available to me, has to be when I found myself as both a new mother, and a divorced wife, back when Misty was about two months old. We lived in my car for a while, me, the baby, and a wild yellow cat. But I can’t remember anything especially funny about that time, which means there aren’t any good stories to tell, so instead I’m going to talk about the second-poorest time of my life, when I sold dirt/Trish Gannon, River Journal. More here.
Question: What is the worst job you’ve ever done, in order to scrape by?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Cis on March 10 at 11:16 a.m.
The worse that it ever was for me, was with 8 kids, only having oatmeal, some noodles and popcorn in the house for two days. Thru a bad winter for business. We had $1,000 out on the book for our mechanic shop. I went knocking on doors, for two days, and finally collect all but $300 that was owed to us. And that was by a Canadian drilling company, work that my husband did in the middle of the night, going by horse on top of the mountain to their drilling spot. The rest of the winter was beyond tight, but we scraped by.
JeanieSpokane on March 10 at 11:18 a.m.
Standing in the cold at the drive through for Wendy’s on North Division when it first opened trying to help the company locate other franchises.
Oh - and before my children came along, I babysat for The Five Year Old From Hell. I’m surprised I went ahead after that war zone episode and had two children of my own.
Stickman on March 10 at 8:45 p.m.
I have never had one of those. I wouldn’t put up with it, no matter what. Some do what they have to do, I have never had to go through that. I guess I am lucky in that sense.