Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

by Studs Terkel

stone or brick. Not tiring. Anything you like to do isn’t tiresome. It’s hard work;

naturally I tried to pattern after them.

don’t get the commission.

cab of the truck. You

going on for years and years and

me with tempting offers.

off the cheap costume

several holdups since then. I don’t

only place in my

They’re reaching across and

come two aldermen, Tom

Jim says, ‘I don’t have room for this box and it’s goin’ the other way. I’ll pick it up next time I’m in New York.’ He was heading for St. Louis. It takes a certain kind of individual that thinks in thousands of miles so casually, as you and I’ll pick something up from my neighbor here next week.”