[Summit] Winter 2014 edition of Summit News: Full-color edition!

[Robert Mathiesen]

That, too, of course, Andrew!  But I came to the job of paper-boy with no
idealistic expectations of employers, society or the larger world
whatever.  I'm on the tail end of the Silent Generation, and we were raised
not to expect or hope for much of anything out of life.  This, I think,
helped me appreciate all the more what good things have come my way.  If,
to pick a random illustration, you don't expect to receive any justice
ever, the times when you do receive it are all the sweeter for that.

Bob M


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Nosal <andy at mapcenter.com> wrote:

> The life lesson I took away from delivering newspapers in the 1960s is
> that a big corporation will be as shamelessly exploitative as it can get
> away with - and then some.  How was it acceptable to make children eat
> *their* bad debts?  I got in trouble when I cut a subscriber off!  They
> made me buy that paper anyway so the route would not shrink.
>
> Later on I figured out that the man who ran the shop where we all picked
> up our papers was in the same position as us.  Heads the paper wins, tails
> the "independent contractors" lose.
>
> The idea that kids should have some kind of junior opportunity seems like
> a good one but if the only way to organize it is more or less
> sharecropping, then good riddance to all that.
>
>
>
> Andrew Nosal
> *The Map Center Inc*
> 671 North Main Street
> Providence RI 02904  USA
> tel (401) 421-2184
> (888) 568-MAPS (6277)
> fax (401) 454-8058
> andy at mapcenter.com
>
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Tony Adams <aa44ee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I grew up in rural NW Ohio during the 70s and 80s and had a paper route
> for five years through middle school and early high school. My route peaked
> at around 150 papers per day. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything
> in the world. Hard work (rain, snow or shine), a little financial freedom
> (junk food, arcade games, and cassette tapes), and so many life lessons
> dealing with customers and employer (collection and dues).
>
> It's sad the same opportunity doesn't exist for kids that age today.
>
> I'll always think back fondly of those times. :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:10, Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of my summer college jobs was working on the receiving dock of the
> university bookstore. A box of textbooks (usually 40-60lbs+): 3 quick
> slashes to the packaging tape, grip at the bottom, flip it over and yank
> it off the stack in one quick move. Repeat.
>
> I gained a lot of respect for people who earn their living by manual labor.
>
>
> Emlyn
>
>
> > when I was a paper boy back in the '50s in Berkeley -- each bundle hit
>> the
>> > sidewalk with a distinctive big muffled thud!  You knew when and where
>> your
>>
>> After many years as a paper boy, on Long Island, I worked for a time as
>> the guy who bundled the papers and threw them off the van...producing
>> that thud.  That was a 3am to 6am job.  I remember swinging by the bagel
>> store at the end of a shift and getting hot bagels fresh out of the oven.
>>
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