{"id":2137,"date":"2007-10-31T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2007-12-17T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:33:42","slug":"search-or-sell-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2137\/search-or-sell-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Or Sell, Young Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teach or be Taught<\/strong>
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\nI entered my freshman year in college (the second time) sporting a 1967 VW Beetle with no radio, a grant-in-aid to play Division III football on the crumbling edge of Pennsylvania coal country, and $200 in my pocket from a half-finished summer house painting job back east. I emerged eight years later with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre, spitting distance<\/em> close to a master’s degree in English, and a 1972 Riviera that served as both my wheels and my address, off and on, for several months to follow. Oh yeah…and 30 grand in student loans, give or take a few deferments. And a soon to be ex-wife. And<\/em> a kid.<\/p>\n

My choices, as I recall them now, were quite simple, really;<\/p>\n

I<\/strong> Take a teaching job for $14,000 a year in a Pittsburgh inner-city high school and get buried even further below the rusty Monongahela crust–an option, rather than an actual choice, I suppose…<\/em>
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\nII<\/strong> Go back to graduate school (rather, stay in graduate school and be pushing 30 when I got out) adding another 20K to the loan tab–albeit a longshot wager as far as any lender with my correct SS number was concerned…<\/em><\/p>\n

III<\/strong> Or run.<\/em>
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\nThe first two choices were subsequently ruled out leaving me alone in a bar one night pondering Option III… <\/em>to run or not to run. <\/em>Run, that is, OR… possibly…<\/em> pursue what I had ended up doing in the interim while trying to figure out an escape route from those winter stained strip mines of western Pennsylvania… Sales.<\/em> The default career of all default careers. Knife and pot sales, actually. Door to door throughout the surrounding counties. My first crack at this profession of eating what one kills. And a natural born killer, I was not.<\/p>\n

I’d forage the wedding announcement notices from back issues of the local weeklies then drop in on the family homes of the blushing brides-to-be, a suitcase full of kitchenwares in one hand and ten cent daisies in the other. Knock, knock, knock…<\/em>“Why, you must be the the future Mrs Thaddeus McLelland Stump<\/em> {pause}<\/em> Oh…you are her mother?<\/em> Dear Lord… I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teach or be Taught I entered my freshman year in college (the second time) sporting a 1967 VW Beetle with no radio, a grant-in-aid to play Division III football on the crumbling edge of Pennsylvania coal country, and $200 in my pocket from a half-finished summer house painting job back east. 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