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It sounds like you could write a book about your experiences there. Across the street from Location B is a bar that has a lot of riff-raff. Let me just say the police earn their pay from that bar alone.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 9, 2018 at 9:07 AM
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posted by
Ciel
on February 9, 2018 at 7:30 AM
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That was an honest job and a valuable lesson in human nature,
and perhaps there's a story or two that you've written - or will write - that is rich with authentic detail and a scenario your readers can see bacause you know the material. Amazing what can come of just doing your best to keep on keepin' on.
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Pat_B
on February 9, 2018 at 5:49 AM
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Poor job really Kabu after going to your special school. I bet there are plenty of jobs you could do today Chiropodist £30 half an hour. Electrician £50 an hour, or even a gardener say about £20 per hour. Pole dancer ?? Stripper ?? . No! How about a dog walker? I cannot remember you telling this story in the last hundred years. You should have learned Sheep Shearing.
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C_C_T
on February 9, 2018 at 2:14 AM
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Kanu
I can understand the difficulties women face at workplaces, and probably even the advanced countries than ours have, more or less, similar kinds of obstacles for women to wade through.
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anib
on February 8, 2018 at 8:21 PM
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Kabu
Ooh, this is interesting, S. Sister. Yes, employers would hire a single woman before they'd consider hiring a married woman. I remember being asked if I was married because they assumed I would get "with child" and leave if I was married. I remember being very young and very shocked to hear that statement.There was "mandatory retirement" regardless of age, in those days, which forcibly occurred when one reached the 6th month of pregnancy. It ended through the courts right about then.
Please continue. Women were often defined first as wives, daughters, mothers, and then by occupation, if there was one to name.
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Sea_Gypsy
on February 8, 2018 at 2:55 PM
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