The first season of my arboricul-tural journey was a positive experience. Previous attempts at financial independence included newspaper delivery person, bicycle-wheel packer, kitchen slop cleaner-upper, parking-garage attendant and officesupply orderpicker.Of all the aforementioned career possibilities, distributing the local rag by chucking it onto porches from the seat of my “Playboy”-edition bike (banana seat, high handlebars) seemed to suit me best. Even delivering the Sunday edition in the pre-dawnhours of a winter morning via Radio Flyer wagon seemed preferable to the stuffy indoor environments I had experienced. I would work outside.
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