Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989)
My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
- Charles Bukowski, Factotum
[In addition to the jobs listed below, I have worked in four bookstores (including the Chinook Centre Chapters during Christmastime).]
- Front desk clerk and liaison at gym specializing in personal training.
- Geological technician for small oil company (analyzing geological logs on microfiche, printing them, and splicing them on a draughtsman's table with an X-Acto knife and various adhesives).
- Production assistant for 'entertainment news' television program.
- Part time marijuana trafficker for bikers (free weed and non-taxable cash, but eventually an underworld associate informed me that the bikers won't kill you for less than $3000, but they will kill you for $3000).
- University teaching assistant.
- Warehouse sales representative for company selling movie posters and memorabilia online and over the phone.
- Accounts payable for midsized oil company (data entry and diplomacy with vendors).
- Client outreach for gigantic homeless shelter.
- Residential support worker for drug and alcohol treatment facility.
- Board director and committee chair for a cinematheque (volunteer position).
Juana Molina, "Cosoco" [Official Music Video]
* It was Shelf Life Books that made me decide that I will do whatever it takes to never have to work any goddamn day job ever again, so help me God.
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