Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage

You should see the people I have to compete with. I am waiting for a job interviewwith amoving company. Beautiful operation. They likedme but they said they didn’t want to trainme. It’s not because I’m obese. At least not this time. It’s a computerized operation, and I would have to be trained on the computer. But I’m sitting waiting for the interview, the other guy sitting to be interviewed is an MBA, also my age. Knows how to use computer. Laid off from Wall Street, $80,000-a-year job. He’s competing with me. I told him I just applied for a warehouse job at Busch Terminal. He asks me for the information and if I mind that he’ll apply for the job. I give him the address. He’s