A couple winters ago, in the midst of this soul-crushing economy you may have heard mention of, freelance writing just wasn’t covering the caviar bill. So I bit the bullet and fell back on the first job I ever held: warehouse work. I picked up four 10-hour shifts a week at a used-book warehouse here in Denver, a job that requires lots of standing, lifting, hauling, and talking shit about football and politics with the UPS guy around the loading dock. I hadn’t performed manual labor in almost two decades. But after years of writing full-time for a living, it was weirdly refreshing. I had to get up at 5, take a long walk to the bus stop, take a long bus ride...
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