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The jobs were odd, but offered experience

I got my first job in 1965 at age 15 at a golf course. When in college, I worked on the railroad during the summers of 1968-70, and again in the summer of 1973.
After completing my bachelor's degree, my first job was picking apples in New Hampshire. I tried my hand at carpentry before heading off to grad school.
I earned by master's degree in 1974, and worked a few more "odd" jobs before finally landing in newspapers. One was managing a gas station; the other was with a fish wholesaler on the Gulf Coast.

Reporter gets more than he ever imagined in this short story

A young reporter is sent to a small Finger Lakes village to get a story on a missing man. But it was not just another alzheimer walk-away episode.
The journalist describes what turned out to be one of the strangest stories he would ever encounter.

Albert Camus: Love and Rebellion in an Absurd World

This essay is concerned with an understanding and an interpretation of the flow of the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus’ thought as expressed in the sequence of his writings, both philosophical and fiction. It appears that Camus believed that coming to an intellectual relationship with the world is natural and not that important in itself. The consequences of that relationship, the ways one lives life, that are important, especially the consistency of those consequences.

Alan W. Watts and the Search for Truth

He did much to bring valuable insights from the eastern philosophical traditions to the West, and no doubt countless people have found peace within themselves thanks to the teachings of Alan Watts. The question is whether someone can find peace within while rejecting the suffering of so many others without. Can there be a mythology that can account for both, while not placing suffering in the realm of maya, illusion, incorrect thinking, or the meaningless play of a divine Brahma?