Ordinary Sins by Jim Heynen

Author:Jim Heynen [Heynen, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781571318800
Publisher: Milkweed Editions

My professors acted as if doing well for them would make a difference. As if their classes in the humanities were a test-drive for real life! Ha! Model student indeed! The only firm offers I’ve had are temp jobs typing forms for a law firm. That and telemarketing. Telemarketing? Now there’s a crash course in the humanities for you. I’ve tried to get in on a trail-clearing crew on state forest land, but there’s a waiting list of eighty. There’s always teaching English overseas, but I’m too late to apply for this year. I think I’m a little old for babysitting, and all the waitresses in good places are hanging onto their jobs as if they were tenured appointments. I’m third in line for a job packing remaindered books in a book distribution warehouse. Discards from the Discard? Two nonprofit organizations have offered me nonpaying internships in development that might lead to an entry-level job. In development! That nice word for fund-raising! They want to pay me nothing to learn how to ask rich people for money? It’s like asking a death-row inmate to serve on a jury. Exactly like that.

I’m not bitter. I’m too young and smart and energetic to be bitter. All I want to know is what my senior advisor meant when she said I should always be brave enough to challenge the system. System? There’s a system? Syllabus, please!

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