At least NOW he’s doing something USEFUL........................
All that journalistic work led to...nothing?
Why? Amazon has nothing to do with that.
Does he get HEALTH CARE WITH THAT?...................
I’m a Realtor. I’m 60 and am in good shape mentally and physically. We’ve received quite a few packages from amazon etc. I think the job looks like fun and I’d consider doing it. Good work out!
So what did he do to get fired?
$17 an hour would be a decrease in pay for me. But I’m 60 years old. I’m tired of working hard all my life. I’m looking forward to semi retirement. Having a job like delivering packages would suit me. At the end of the day, I would be done for the day.
It was a nice story right up until the gratuitous and needless dig at President George W. Bush.
Any sympathy I had for this man disappeared at that point.
"...it has been healthy for me to be a minority in my workplace..."
“It’s not easy getting old.”
True. I’m sixty-four and working as a college instructor. No longer making six figures, but still working. I advise people in their fifties to consider a plan B career, when their years of experience are no longer an asset.
Wait? What? ....why is that healthy for him?
If you are a white male in your fifties and work for a major corporation, your fate might not be much different.
Hey, Journ-O-Lists, welcome to the REAL WORLD that you helped create.
I know a guy like this. Went to high-school with him. He became a celebrated columnist in a large daily paper and was there for close to three decades until they went online-only and eliminated his position.
No idea what he is doing now but it very well could be Amazon.
Cool piece. I Ubered for a while several years ago and have written resumes for over 4 years.
I am coming out of an experience extremely similar to this gent, and so I empathize.
However, I came away with a completely different set of lessons. I reinvented myself as a Salesforce Admin and developer. He’s still a journalist, and an arrogant one at that.
I had several jobs not unlike this gents, and it was definitely humiliating. I recommend it to everyone, however, because at this point I am grateful for everything, and am completely committed to lifetime reinvention.
So sad to try and put myself into the place of a journalist. The useful idiot; the very definition of it. Now he’s subsumed by part of the beast he tried his best to serve.
That’s the subtext here. He’s thinking about all those liberal academics who found refuge and sinecure in all of those effete institutions (and likely vehicles for money laundering) and wondering to himself, “Where’s mine? How was I passed over?”
So he writes an article for the Atlantic, who pays him whatever they can spare because they’re hurting, and says to the liberal machine, “Hey! Over here? Where’s my English professor gig?”
Found a stack of SI in parents attic years ago, Mags dated back to 70’s and 80’s. It was a good magazine, articles on fishing, hunting. Fast forward to today, latest study on lbqt trannie trying to play football , or climate change is a problem for runners. No thanks
Any sort of job involving repetitive tasks like moving boxes from one place to another will be automated. Sure there are trials going on but it will be a while before package delivery is fully automated. So these jobs will be around a while longer.
I was also the only one spending my off days going to college. Coincidence? :)
it’s a really good article, thanks for posting.
I would suggest he get his CDL license with endorsements, such as hazmat endorsement and work for an oil or gas company. Salary is much much higher and you ain’t delivering 9 gabillion packages a day 16 hours a day solely to help a leftist like Bozos become the worlds first trillionaire.
57 ain’t anywhere near old
This guy is amazed that hard work has a value