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hunter

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7. When I was young I briefly worked for a few outfits like "Extra Care Movers..."
Wed Sep 13, 2023, 02:37 PM
Sep 2023

... who would take any job at the lowest possible price.

The stories I could tell... a lot of them about trying to collect my pay.

I also remember unloading trucks full of stuff that had been damaged because it hadn't been packed properly and the trucks hadn't been loaded properly.

The first time I ever earned $100 in a day was moving furniture for a company that was extremely professional. The driver on that job was one of the kindest most decent human beings I have ever met. I worked with him several times. You often see the worst of people on moving day but he had this almost magical ability (from my young perspective) to keep everything calm and positive. Everyone, clients and contractors alike, went home feeling "Wow, that went a lot better than I expected it would. This was a good day."

After that experience I decided I wouldn't work for any sketchy moving companies ever again.

Elon Musk is an agent of chaos. I can't imagine working for him in any capacity. It was my good fortune that I learned at an early age to walk away from work like that.

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