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ttmNiny ■„ lib bn geut. hr fled m the end of
T ibr gnu <!h liegn footp.nb. for ibn vat the
fttri of the esrduoui teal I !eny journey He
bod mode it nut. ut tony Lnt, out of the tteihbervuj (it ad
bn nit i Retail, at bn left, the Jeyrndnn cbastm of If erh
tun ned, treirtinyiy utupdnnabtf, tmpanibtr to (ton
Ihhii Jahland. as yet unpublished
I here nr hundreds of unfitsished JubLtnJ ulvtl)
lure manuscripts More*! in mv closet Although I
dream of publishing, 1 dire r»ol retrieve them from
their tnurkv lair
l or in the hac k ol ins tlosct dwells a creature
Damned with t»u arms, two tail* and a 42 inch long
cut, it's hot. v rate he. was too 'VI. and I've yet to tmd
a tie that matches it' plantains Hie creature is mv
suit |ai Let. the woolly hulls I don time ami time igain
to tourney aero" the cits in search ol a job Ihi' ' no
ordinary laeLet it ha' somehow alisorlicd the "white
lio” I’ve told while interviewing and has rsolscd into
a w rctc hr<l hie ot ii\ ow n
Hcc tuning tit) utility licit, mv magic lasso and my
tort re" ol solitude. the )aikrt makes the proper lire!
tmpre'Mon' and jettisons mv true |ierv»lia from the
gtase war room ot the interview Vs imwlt. 1 am not
charming enough I haven't enough espenent r the
cuit Lim>uv tlsi\ and nuke' all the right moves for me
li shakes hands or, rather, ferret?* a *!ccve umriril to
proffer the firm h.mdsluke tlut I, in ins generational
lac k ol wr, r« fa tie. mas have forgotten It irritates mv
tin k enough to prompt a grimace that, ses, well, sort
ot looks like a “tan do” gun to the working world
N es, I am the jacket** thrall, and, oh, the lies tt
makes me tell, "hrs, I oil do that .* h is, vis, ses
Neser sas no. It ;s a coat ol smarms now 1, the soon
to be college grad, humhls bowing low to the
employment lord, tall |» intent at hts fret as if to sav,
"1 am sorts hsr having no experience.”
Mas. the employment overlord rates not about ms
Iccble eat uv-s.
Indred, with June hearing down on me like a
dried up |>cn on used c arbon paper, the |a» krt is mm
StoM Macoon NcxthMStcm U
mg out n> hang oft my lot k like ««nt symbiont lrcd
mg ('HI Kl**) off the ihtmumb of "ldicnirs” i take m
dcscnhmg my heath foil qualifications
binding a job is a crusade, a jitlgnniage, a religious
rite ot passagt It's (hr "first Holy ( ommutmg” to
adult life Our futures depend on tins lirst job or so
were led to believe just as four years ago wt wen
let I to believe that our (our parents’) school of choice
woultl make a huge dent in the S mph huilipct on the
sulxt impact of life Not quite, hut the accident Minis
to be appioat hmg heatl on. it slithers toward us in the
serpentine sha|>c ol unemployment lines
It se-etns strangely appropriate tfiat the laikct ol lies
hanging in my closet kce|*s me from bet timing who I
want to be
1 hose “full mettle” tat kets we doff aftet the tntrt
view timid i>e ihmUtd along with those cheat sheets
of a tesumt That would stiow them MavU then I
could do what I ve wantcif to do all along gti into
inv closet, grah those Uncs in the back anti publish
im adventures ot Jobiitsd
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