I had a string of tasks in my teens and early 20s that weren’t too glamorous. The first one was being a deckhand at a boat marina, and I did everything from cleaning the boats and the facilities to scraping dried seagull poop off the rooftop of the building. It was a miserable task to do in the middle of the summer time when the temperature outside was over 100 degrees. While I was ecstatic to earn the money, being able to buy a modern guitar wasn’t worth the grueling work I was doing every week. That’s when I took up a task washing dishes in a nursing lake house study room. I figured that I’d be in an air conditioned environment while working but had no conception in my mind for how tepid a commercial study room becomes when meals are being cooked and served. I sweltered so much in that study room dish room that I figured I’d take another outdoor task next time around. That’s when I started working in a ticket booth at the high university sports games. I sold tickets for baseball, football, and soccer games primarily. Unlike some ticket booths in the area, the people I was with and I didn’t have a window cooling system inside to keep us cool. That meant I had to sell tickets in seriously overheated hot and cold temperatures during the Springtime, summer, and early Fall season. However, I also sold tickets in the Winter time when it was below chilly outside. Selling tickets in sub 20 degree weather without a space furnace is almost worse than selling tickets in 90 degree weather with no cooling system.
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