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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:52 PM Original message |
"I put my -- myself through school working every rotten job there was." |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. If he ever worked some low paying rotten jobs (I will give him benefit of the doubt) .... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. And I want to make sure no one else will ever be able to afford to do that! nt |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. That's for sure! Summer jobs used to pay for a year's tuition... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
27. I know it! In the '80s I put myself through school... |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't doubt it. He reminds me of the kind of little guy who makes it big |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Pulling up the ladder behind him. (nt) |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. He is probably lying. He waited tables and calls it "every rotten job there is". nt |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Well, some of those people in Ohio are lousy tippers...... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. and it didn't teach him an ounce of compassion or charity. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. Janitor, huh? He must have fallen into the Orange-Glo |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. As a very unsuccessful (financially) artist and musician, I worked shit jobs |
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Gemini Cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. +1 |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. +1000 |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 06:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I played in bands since the mid 1960's, and there is one guy who still |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 06:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I got a call one afternoon |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I was in a band that took a clubs PA system once. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Good for you |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:09 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. And dude, when they get signed, if someone bothers to sign them- |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:39 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Exactly |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:45 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. I became the enemy, mobil DJ, full time in 97 and did it til 07. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 11:08 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I don't blame you |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 03:41 AM Response to Reply #46 |
54. That's the way to do it - If you have been playing long enough and well enough |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 03:35 AM Response to Reply #39 |
53. I knew several bar owners who retired in their 40's, but I NEVER knew a musician |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 03:44 AM Response to Reply #53 |
55. Really good point Mark. |
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CC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. He acts like his working his way through |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. +1000 nt |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
41. back in his folks day, |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah, his father's bar |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. The hell with that --- he was a JFK Democrat before he made millions? Bullshit. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. According to the Steph Miller Show peeps... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. maybe that's where his problems with alcohol began.... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. That thought crossed my mind too... |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
14. Well, bully for him. |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
16. He graduated College in 1977. Lets think about that. |
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CC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. He was only in the Navy for |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. The jobs I've worked in order: babysitter, house maid, clerk, |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. what is "a rotten job"? |
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meow mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. bad is... dishwasher, dog kennel, fence pole digger. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Hell, my husband says that's the kind of stuff he does around home |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
23. If he describes a paying job as "rotten" it may say more about him than the job. n/t |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. BINGO! I knew something was bothering me, but couldn't put |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. well said- |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
28. Not to defend him but |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. funny thing, that- |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. Thanks for link. |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. If what he says is true it makes him an even bigger asshole |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. 3 jobs. Helped in his parents bar, as a janitor and as a newspaper delivery boy. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. it should make people question his 'credibility'- but |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
36. So did I. |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
38. His family owned a fucking bar. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. he worked in his dad's bar, where he also learned to drink, i suspect |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
47. Tanning booth tester |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
48. I laid septic lines |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
50. Wasn't most of that work at a FAMILY owned bar? |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
52. I was in my 40's when I worked as a janitor so is that better or worse? |
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