cirerita
Founding member
Was it really at Sears & Roebuck? I was just listening to a tape from the mid-late 1970s where says his first job was at Union Pacific Railway, and that this mother got him the job through a friend. Then he goes on to say his second job was at S&R, making 65 cents an hour --"a good pay in those days," he says.
It's been a while since I read all the bios, but I can't recall anyone mentioning this job. Maybe he made it up?
Although I have to say his memory is quite sharp: somewhere else on the tape he talks about his early stories, and he recalls quite vividly many details about his baseball story in Matrix, and he even pronounces the title of one of the other stories in Matrix, "Cacoethes Scribendi."
It's been a while since I read all the bios, but I can't recall anyone mentioning this job. Maybe he made it up?
Although I have to say his memory is quite sharp: somewhere else on the tape he talks about his early stories, and he recalls quite vividly many details about his baseball story in Matrix, and he even pronounces the title of one of the other stories in Matrix, "Cacoethes Scribendi."