Workin' Worthen #1

Sometimes I just sit and think about all the darn jobs I've had in my life and what a busy-bee I've been. Toil, toil, toil! I don't think when I was a kid that I'd ever grow up to do any of these stupid, craptacular jobs I've had, oh well! Anyway, I thought I'd compile a list and blog a post for each one of my many different jobs and share my work adventures with all of you. I hope you all enjoy the tales of my never-ending enslavement.

My first work experience was delivering early morning newspapers for my stupid cousin, Jacob- my slightly older, yet shorter, Adam Rich-looking, snobby-ass cousin while he would go on vacation with his family down to Florida. I was eleven years old and in the fifth grade when I started filling in for him. My dad would wake me up at 3:30 in the morning and we'd drive over to my cousin's place to get the papers ready for delivery. I remember it being so DARK out. I was never up at that time before, it was weird to be up when I was for sure everyone else in the world was asleep. How cool!!!! I still remember my dad and I driving around the west-side, lakeshore part of Beaver Dam, the area where my cousin's route was. These houses were all the doctor's and attorney's houses. All the rich people of town lived here and I got to run up their driveways, as my dad sat in the car, and drop their Milwaukee Journals (how high-class: the out-of-town paper!) into their various newspaper bins, inside screen-doors, or under rocks. Up until that point, I never gave new radio songs the time of day- my parents always seemed to listen to the "oldies;' but when we were out delivering my dad had on Z104 or something playing all the pop-rock hits of the time. Those songs have been driven into my head and whenever I hear them now, I think of early morning runs up those doctors' driveways!

"Electric Avenue" - Eddie Grant
"Every Breath You Take" - The Police
"Urgent" - Foreigner
"Snapshot" - Sylvia (a country-pop crossover artist who paved the way for the Shania Twains and their ilk. All her songs seem to be about catching her boyfriends cheating on her)
"Down Under" - Men at Work
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart" - Yes
"Steppin' Out" - Joe Jackson
"Gloria" - Laura Branigan
"My Baby Takes the Morning Train" - Sheena Easton
and practically any Huey Lewis and the News song!



My aunt probably forced my cousin to send this to me- what a little shit. Oh well, this was an interesting start to my work-life!