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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2902606" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>I worked for my father in his body shop/service shop and auto parts stores growing up while living at home and if you were sick you still were expected to come to work because the old man was made out of metal or something, he almost never missed a day of work the whole time I knew him. Those old guys knew the bills had to be paid so they did what they had to do, the world just didnt stop because of a cold or whatever. </p><p></p><p>I have been mostly self employed myself my entire adult life but I did have to take a few side jobs to survive while I was going to post HS tech schools, playing music sure wasnt paying the bills in San Francisco, a very expensive city to live in. I went to culinary school then to a mortuary school before I settled on art and music schools. Thru the school I worked a few weird jobs at a funeral home: death/suicide cleanup team, funeral home basics, exhumations, etc. When I quit the school and started in at an art institute I also resigned the funeral home gig which was a job I really liked doing (my yahoo Eaddy at the time was even smellsofdeath@yahoo)- the boss said since the smells never bothered me like the other guys he hired he felt I was a natural for the job, like a calling or whatever. Naaa, I just grew up working in my dads body shop where there were always alot of bad smells and my smeller is messed up for life. So Im putting in my notice and he tells me, "Damon, youre the only guy Ive ever had work for me who never called in himself, you always had some girl call in, and it was usually a different girl. What was up with that?". I told him that in the beginning when I first started there I called in and they talked me in to coming in when I was really sick, so after that I just started having someone else call in for me so I didnt get talked in to coming in, and it was usually a girl there with me.</p><p></p><p>Me and my wife moved to Vegas for a summer then on to Des Moines Iowa in the fall from California to open a tattoo shop and basically to just get away from CA for awhile after the dot.com bust had went down late 90s making our business suffer a bit. I remember our first winter in Iowa. Even tho we had been living up in the snowy mountains of northern CA for a few years after moving away from Sunnyvale/Silicon Valley area, we had no idea how much it snowed in Iowa, and how often- literally from November to April. And we also learned unlike most places, nothing there shuts down. You are expected to go to work. We woke up to a blizzard and went to call our people and tell them we were closing for the day- and they were all at work. We were totally shocked. And totally unprepared for Iowas snow. My rwd Toyota Supra twin turbo was not very effective transpo in snow, wifes fwd Infinity was not much better, we had to go back to CA and get my old trusty K5 Blazer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 2902606, member: 1535"] I worked for my father in his body shop/service shop and auto parts stores growing up while living at home and if you were sick you still were expected to come to work because the old man was made out of metal or something, he almost never missed a day of work the whole time I knew him. Those old guys knew the bills had to be paid so they did what they had to do, the world just didnt stop because of a cold or whatever. I have been mostly self employed myself my entire adult life but I did have to take a few side jobs to survive while I was going to post HS tech schools, playing music sure wasnt paying the bills in San Francisco, a very expensive city to live in. I went to culinary school then to a mortuary school before I settled on art and music schools. Thru the school I worked a few weird jobs at a funeral home: death/suicide cleanup team, funeral home basics, exhumations, etc. When I quit the school and started in at an art institute I also resigned the funeral home gig which was a job I really liked doing (my yahoo Eaddy at the time was even smellsofdeath@yahoo)- the boss said since the smells never bothered me like the other guys he hired he felt I was a natural for the job, like a calling or whatever. Naaa, I just grew up working in my dads body shop where there were always alot of bad smells and my smeller is messed up for life. So Im putting in my notice and he tells me, "Damon, youre the only guy Ive ever had work for me who never called in himself, you always had some girl call in, and it was usually a different girl. What was up with that?". I told him that in the beginning when I first started there I called in and they talked me in to coming in when I was really sick, so after that I just started having someone else call in for me so I didnt get talked in to coming in, and it was usually a girl there with me. Me and my wife moved to Vegas for a summer then on to Des Moines Iowa in the fall from California to open a tattoo shop and basically to just get away from CA for awhile after the dot.com bust had went down late 90s making our business suffer a bit. I remember our first winter in Iowa. Even tho we had been living up in the snowy mountains of northern CA for a few years after moving away from Sunnyvale/Silicon Valley area, we had no idea how much it snowed in Iowa, and how often- literally from November to April. And we also learned unlike most places, nothing there shuts down. You are expected to go to work. We woke up to a blizzard and went to call our people and tell them we were closing for the day- and they were all at work. We were totally shocked. And totally unprepared for Iowas snow. My rwd Toyota Supra twin turbo was not very effective transpo in snow, wifes fwd Infinity was not much better, we had to go back to CA and get my old trusty K5 Blazer. [/QUOTE]
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