This reads like something a person would do after running out of Meth, eating too many “bad” mushrooms, drinking gin straight from the bottle,
then going to work as a Train Operator.
At is UNION job at the docks, hired as an illegal quota hire, or perhaps one of those “stand in” workers the MOB is always foisting off on shipping docks.
SEE: On the Waterfront for who chooses who works and who doesn’t.