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Telemarketing Job in Tottenville and the Brutal Commute
from Bring Back The Mob · #62
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2 minTim details getting a telemarketing job at Reliable Office Systems in Tottenville, Staten Island, describing the grueling multi-hour commute via bus and ferry from his apartment in Hell's Kitchen while broke and eating oatmeal from a plastic cup.
- 5:48An AA degree is worse than not having a degree.
- 6:13Tim argues that 25 is the cutoff age—after that, there's no dignified reason to still be in school.
- 6:27Paralegal students who worked for small-time attorneys thought they knew more than the professor.
- 6:50One attorney's actual method was slipping cash under the table and adjusting contract values.
- 7:10Tim took a telemarketing job three hours away in Staten Island because he wasn't choosy enough to refuse work.
- 7:26When you don't have a degree, you can't be picky about jobs—you have to accept what's offered.
- 7:44Tim sets up a larger theme: few people understand what it's actually like to be broke.
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