WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:05.799 Hi, I'm James Junior, and welcome to fifty plus. This episode, 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:09.480 I was thinking about my employment history. I have several 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:12.960 friends who are looking for jobs, and I realized, as 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:20.280 of this recording twenty twenty four September, I haven't okay. 5 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:22.920 The last time I had to pull a resume together 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:29.239 was about ten years ago. Now it's only because I 7 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.640 had I hit a snag in my organizing business, a 8 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.079 major snag, and maybe'll they'll get into that, but that's 9 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.359 not really the story. But now it's that am that time. 10 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:48.640 That was the first time in twelve years before that 11 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.960 I had been another resume looking for a job. So 12 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.799 I've had to look for a job maybe twice now, 13 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.439 not counting my and not counting the entrepreneurship, but like 14 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:06.959 traditional job work, I will say twice in the last 15 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.439 twenty twenty five years. So spent a long time for me. 16 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:13.599 I lived in the era in the eighties and nineties 17 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:17.560 and early two thousands where I was working in San Francisco, 18 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.239 even in Sacramento two when I was there, we would 19 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:25.120 get jobs through our friends from a good job somewherever 20 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:26.840 in a management position and say you want a job, 21 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.879 come James, before we gotta get a couple hours then 22 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:30.519 you go over there. And I remember, I remember I 23 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.920 had three jobs. One I went to, I went through 24 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.920 a catle call process and got it. Another one was 25 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.760 with a friend, another one was with a friend. They 26 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:41.480 just got me jobs there. So I was working part 27 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.200 time here, part time here, part time there, and when 28 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:45.879 I was getting paid, like every five days, I was 29 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.480 getting paid. It was kind of crazy, but I remember 30 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:54.159 I moved it. When I moved to San Francisco from 31 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:58.439 Sacramento in the nineties mid nineties, I had to do it. 32 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.159 I had to look for a job attrition away, had 33 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:06.079 at a resume, got it, I was let go. I 34 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.960 kind of quit let go. The same time I went 35 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.960 to apply to another job. It was like it was 36 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:12.960 like three months later, so it was like within three months. 37 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.319 I went out there with a resume. The girl hired 38 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:18.759 me on this but girl said, no, we don't have 39 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.039 any openings. I got home and I was like, you 40 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:26.120 have the job. So I got a job there. From 41 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.879 that job, a friend of a friend got another job 42 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.960 and said, you guys should come in. So I had 43 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.360 my resume in hand, went in and the guy just 44 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.879 hired us on the spot. Dude to my friend. So 45 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.159 then I left that job. It was like super and 46 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.280 had to pound a pavement another it is super easy. 47 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.879 I went from that job to that job. While I 48 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:55.439 was there, I got a second job as I needed money. 49 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.639 That's because a friend of mine from that job became 50 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.280 a manager at another place, and so he just hired 51 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.680 on a spot's to do merchandising part time. So then 52 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.400 I had two jobs for a while, and I was 53 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:12.919 doing that and from and then from that that, I 54 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.520 left the original job and I had that job and 55 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.479 that job on our business. I had my resume, but 56 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.080 my buddy hired me part time at his watch store, 57 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.759 so I was working there part time. Okay, so I 58 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:29.240 had something there and then he heard about his face 59 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:33.199 hiring down the street. We went together. I went through 60 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:37.560 the countercall process, got hired, so I was doing both 61 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.039 and then I was also a part and then I 62 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:46.159 said and then I was like okay, did that for 63 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.439 a while, and then I joined a staffing service, so 64 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:55.159 I left the watch job. That job I had there 65 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:57.599 before they moved me up. I had a staff job, 66 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.360 so I was getting I was getting staff work. I 67 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:04.719 do the typing test all that stuff and Smith, Captain 68 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.680 and Devlin. I remember them. They were great, great ladies, 69 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:16.120 and they put me on jobs. So I left one 70 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.439 of my original original jobs and so then I was 71 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.240 I was just doing staffing. I was I was like, 72 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.720 they were gonna call me, And at one of those 73 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:29.040 jobs at Morgan Stanley Dean Winter became permanent. So I 74 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.560 went on there from the livery just slid into their 75 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.040 I was swissport operator in cashiering. I was there for 76 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.360 nine eleven. So that's all their story really, But I 77 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.079 did that and then while I was Whilst I was 78 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.680 doing that, I got a second job at a video 79 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.920 store through my friend was working at and said, yeah, 80 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.160 my job's at part time. And I was with them 81 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:57.600 for several years and then I left them to go 82 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:00.839 to my friend nickt job doing insurance. The opening I 83 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.199 went to help for a conference and I asked for 84 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.360 I DELI just ask for a job. They hired me 85 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.000 and I stayed there until I left for LA. So 86 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:10.480 it's kind of like the some of these jobs I 87 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.199 got were just like I just went through a friend 88 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.360 or this. It was like a main thing major. So 89 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.319 I look back at that, I go, wow, that was 90 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:17.759 amazing and a lot of a lot of folks we 91 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.519 went through that. It was very much so we did. 92 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.040 And I just I feel bad for folks because I 93 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:25.680 think that era is gone, right, that's not they don't. 94 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.800 That doesn't really happen very often anymore. And I remember 95 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.480 having to go in and talk to someone with the 96 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.160 you go, you get application right there, you fill it out. 97 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.360 Narraw thing's online, so there's no personal like you can't 98 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.839 get an inroad. I usually go in if you're good 99 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.560 looking or personally you could use something to get you know, 100 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.920 get you something. If they're black and you black, You're like, 101 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.199 you know, I'll be black together. You're like, that isn't 102 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.600 that didn't work nowadays? It's not. You apply online and 103 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.480 then they go through your name and you know, and 104 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:03.639 the number. And I remember the art of resume writing, 105 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.279 what kind of paper you use, and some people put 106 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.800 scents on their paper, and I was like, that's just gone. 107 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.720 Another thing I was thinking about, too, was that I 108 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.800 remember in nineteen ninety eight, ninety nine, I believe, for 109 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.959 a place to live in San Francisco, the first dot 110 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.360 com boom was happening, So there was something like one 111 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:26.720 percent vacancy in San Francisco. I mean everything was people 112 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.639 used selling the news. People were just getting there was 113 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.519 hating an event. People were just moving to San Francisco, 114 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.199 and people were getting apartments and houses and town homes 115 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.680 and people and people were and the whole thing was 116 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.920 people were cramming to get this one apartment somewhere, and 117 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.759 they were sending fruit baskets and muffin baskets and gift 118 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.160 cars like they were like they were trying to sweeten 119 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.040 the deal to get these apartments, especially where I want 120 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:56.680 to live, which was in downtown. And I remember pounding 121 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.959 the pavements walking up friends, inking place to live right too, 122 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:02.480 right now too. It's kind of crazy. So I remember 123 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.959 walking up and down the streets. Now I just took 124 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.600 a block in the area for me, it was I 125 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:13.199 picked the it's called the Knob Hill tenderloin Theater District area. 126 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.759 I call it tender Knob. So I went over. They 127 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.399 had friends over there. So I was just looking up 128 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:23.160 and down. And one of these scams, which was not illegal, 129 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.360 but one of the scams was that most places would 130 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.399 do a credit check, but they charged for the credit 131 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:35.399 check like thirty to forty bucks, and so knowing they 132 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.040 had all this this for them. You know, we only 133 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.839 have one place of vacancy. They would take up to ten, twelve, fifteen, 134 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:48.560 twenty applications. That money was theirs, so you could make 135 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.879 two hundred three hundred. Well there was twenty times twenty 136 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.759 four hundred dollars easily in a day. And you're like, 137 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:58.800 I don't know any of them, let's pick one any whatever. 138 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.360 It was crazy. So so as a renter, potential renter, 139 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.959 you gotta be really careful. We do. But I remember 140 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.040 pounding the pavement again getting the paper. Were of the 141 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.800 paper folks. There's no Internet, so you get the paper, 142 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.480 pound the pavement. I happened to go to one place 143 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:20.319 in that area, and how I got in was I 144 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.399 gave my application, asked where do you work? Who's your boss? 145 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.720 The band and billy manager was like, wait a minute, 146 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.879 you work for Bob West and I go, yes. This 147 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.120 guy's name was Augusta Iliote. I hope he's doing okay 148 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:35.799 and he's out there. He's Puerto Rican also, which is 149 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.279 another great combo. But he was like, oh my god, 150 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.360 I went to high school to go together. We were 151 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.919 high school friends, went to high school together. And I 152 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.600 was like what and so he called Bob said his 153 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:48.919 James trustworthy blah blah, and Bob was like, yeah, we 154 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.440 love James. And I got the apartment and that's my 155 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.519 favorite apartments ever. I had no kitchen, it's called deficiency, 156 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.879 but I had a big, beautiful room and it was 157 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:02.440 like it I'm like, right now, I'm picturing her. It's 158 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:07.200 so funny. So I was on the second floor, I 159 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.679 think the second the second floor, so I could up 160 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.080 the stairs a lb elevator, but also we had stairs. 161 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.960 But I was on the second floor in a corner 162 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:19.159 and I shared a wall with another apartment that we 163 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.679 were both. We both entered in next to each other. 164 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.240 But their apartment was like an L shape went to 165 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.639 the right and mine was like a It was like 166 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.039 a the other shape went to the left. So we 167 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:34.559 shared a wall, but their wall, my wall was from 168 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:38.919 my one side. My apartment was mostly my TV is 169 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.840 like that. That was their hallway going to the to there, 170 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.440 so I didn't hear them unless they walked in. Had 171 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.080 a giant room. And what saved it is I had 172 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.480 a giant window. It only it only faced the back 173 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:56.960 of another apartment building. But what's funny is my friend 174 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.480 Mike used to live in that apartment building so we 175 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.320 could commute Kate through there sometimes. So he was that 176 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.639 because he was on the street behind me. So if 177 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.399 I had a big beautiful window, I put you know, 178 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.519 folks knowing, you guys don't know me by now. I'm 179 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.559 a plant daddy. I have beautiful plants covering that whole window. 180 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.159 I saw. I get to open the window and you 181 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.360 can still look out. It was like these beautiful plants. 182 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.559 I had a chair in the corner, this cute chair 183 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:23.759 out by his green chair in the corner, and right 184 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:28.879 next to it was a kitchenette area, Like what's a kitchenette? 185 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:35.120 It was like sunk it in and it had two cabinets, 186 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.759 a sink, well I call them dorms dorm room college 187 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.480 size refrigerators, and had a thing underneath the sink and 188 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.519 they just had a counter. And I was like, that's 189 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.679 a trip. So I had a microwave that fit right there. 190 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.240 I had a hot plate, a rice cookery. I've had 191 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.279 air fire nowadays or in there. I had a rice 192 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.960 cooper or airplane air hot plate. And I just couldn't 193 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.200 go shopping a lot. That was why I couldn't go 194 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.399 shopping because I couldn't get that much food. So when 195 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.240 I was young, I was working five jobs. Some of 196 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.480 my jobs were food related, so I was getting food 197 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.039 all the time. I was gy. I had I always. 198 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:17.120 I would eat out all the time. It was the 199 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.279 wag deal. We had laundry service. But right below us 200 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.000 we had laundry service, so I would get my laundry 201 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.120 done wrapped in those blue piece of paper. I used 202 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.360 to love that. So I didn't do my own laundry. 203 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:28.919 I did all right. So there was so there was 204 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.360 a kitchen area. Then there was a wall so that 205 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:36.320 I had where are various things over there? I had 206 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.399 no table. I was thinking with it just now. I 207 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.679 didn't have a table. I kind of got a couple 208 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.600 of TV trays, but by winter stuff. But in my 209 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.399 door it was like a little enclave my door area, 210 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.600 and a little second thing from my phone, my answering machine, yes, kids, 211 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.360 the answering machine, and I had that in there, and 212 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:59.039 then I took the answer ste and then I curved 213 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.519 out and then I had a I had like a 214 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.080 little like high table. It was like a little tiny 215 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.720 table area, and I had a gecko that lived there 216 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:13.960 and a little a tank, then a wall. Then had 217 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.320 a walk in closet that led to my bathroom. So 218 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.279 my bed which I had a big out of queen, 219 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.279 out of queen size bed. It took up most of 220 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.000 the room, so it's kind of funny. I put sheets 221 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.080 on the walls for sound. I was always told for 222 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.279 sound put sheets on the walls because I did share 223 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.759 not a wall with anybody. But the way the next 224 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:38.679 apartment building was right, it was close. It was very close, 225 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.240 and it was and so I could hear them sometimes, 226 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.279 but it was it was kind of funny. So if 227 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:46.840 I put it on the walls anyway, I had pictures 228 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.840 of it. That little that little walking closet, had a 229 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.559 sliding door closet, which was my size closet. On the 230 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.639 other side, we had a sunken in dresser built in dresser, 231 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.519 so I was like, that was great, and I had 232 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.200 I had thing on top and I had all my 233 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.519 pictures and everything up there. I made really cute. See. 234 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.600 Then I had this bathroom that was very narrow, but 235 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.720 it was cute. I had I had a tub and 236 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:12.600 a shower, which is like shocking, right, Then had that 237 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.679 little toilet and anything and a sink in there. I 238 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.799 sink at the end. There was a sink toilet next 239 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.840 to a low, low cabinet thing in there too, and 240 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:27.320 a window actually had a window, but I remember on 241 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.679 a sequence next says the toilet was next to the window, 242 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.440 as it was, the seque was next to the shower, 243 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.279 so I would sell on the toilet. I just looked 244 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:37.279 right over and if their windows open, we had a 245 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.080 window run across me in the next building. I guess 246 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:40.600 it look right on in. But there are times that 247 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:43.960 he really went in there. That and I had and 248 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.639 it was carpeting. Re certain row four was carpeting. It 249 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.679 was my favorite apartments of all time. I will say 250 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.759 it was my and it went for It went for 251 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.039 eight hundred and fifty dollars a month. It was back 252 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.799 in nice ninety nine. I was there three years. I 253 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.519 had a Thanksgiving that I washilarious. Yes, I actually had 254 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.879 a face to hear your guests and everything. The bed 255 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.039 was the table. We all kind hung out. My place 256 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.600 was like that. I've had really interesting places I've lived 257 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:11.279 in over the years. And I'll tell you about another 258 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.039 one another time. I'm on a Sacramento fi e sis Ago. 259 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.600 But that was I went pound the pavement found. It 260 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.200 took me three weeks. It took me three weeks to 261 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.279 find a place. And I was leaving this huge because 262 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.159 I had to plot out with my roommate. I said 263 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.759 my friend. I was leading this huge three bedroom apartment 264 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.519 and a groat all stuff. So I love that place. 265 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:36.080 I made it so cute and so cozy, and it 266 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.639 was the bomb. It was a bomb danty if I 267 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.600 was single. I don't high packed everything in there. And 268 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:43.720 I have a lot of stuff, and my records are 269 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:45.519 ran into my record players against the wire and stuff. 270 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:51.399 I it was so those those old buildings that were 271 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.679 that were built up one the twenties and thirties or 272 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:55.200 back in the day and all kind of it was 273 00:14:55.240 --> 00:15:00.279 kind of our deco style. I loved it. And I 274 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.919 was in the city. I have a view of nothing, 275 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:04.799 but I was in the city and I would come 276 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.159 downstairs and I'd be right out in this front. The 277 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.000 bus stopers right in front of my building, or I 278 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.919 could walk down the street, or I could walk in the 279 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:13.960 direction I was at vanask Like. It was just like 280 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.360 such a We had restaurants and we had stuff all nearby. 281 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.039 My favorite magazine places around the corner, my favorite video 282 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.840 places around the corner. Everything was just there and I 283 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:27.600 just I loved it so much. It was just it 284 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.519 was amazing, and I if I had to get a 285 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.919 place to live and it's at eight ninety one Posts 286 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.200 Post and Hide, I would want that place again, just 287 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.799 like if I could have a if I have a 288 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.279 place in San Francisco, I would want that place again 289 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.279 because it was so I have such great memories and 290 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.679 a reason why I left it was to move to 291 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.799 La which I didn't I'd say, that's no story, which 292 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.200 I didn't do at that time. I ended up moving 293 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.639 in with my friends Nick and David in Airplace, So 294 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.159 I love that place too. But I if I if 295 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:01.840 I said, James, you want a place to live in 296 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.960 San Francisco, I would say, I want to place just 297 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.600 like that efficiency that I had, and I want that 298 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.159 and now I mean, my place are good. It was 299 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.759 just so cozy and I felt safe, even though I 300 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:15.600 was like I guess, I mean I found out I 301 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.960 was right next to the stairs or whatever, but I 302 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:20.480 had friends in the building. It was a lot of fun. 303 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.320 I had some cute places. So I just I think 304 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:25.639 about that today, just thinking about as I've been I've 305 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.600 been working on a bunch of books that are coming 306 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.559 out and audio dramas with some of my collaborators, and 307 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.559 we're writing fiction and nonfiction and everything in between. And 308 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.559 we have some really great stuff coming out and have 309 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.559 some interviews coming up and all this stuff and talk 310 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:44.440 about life that I was like, this is this is 311 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.960 actually some of the best times of my life. And 312 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:56.080 I feel bad for my friends who are now my 313 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.399 age and the age I was when I was gonna. 314 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.960 I was an in situation in l A. Is just 315 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.120 so different now San Francisco is just so different now. 316 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.240 Looking for a job, it's different looking for I remember 317 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:09.359 I had a job where I was. I did a 318 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:10.960 lot of operator to work all over the years, and 319 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:12.759 I would that's what I would do again if I 320 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:14.880 if I had to be a operator, I'll do that again, 321 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:19.680 dispatcher whenever I do that again. As one job, we 322 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.000 worked for an answering service. Now those you guys are younger, like, 323 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.319 what's an answering service? I'll tell you what answering service is. 324 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:33.720 You had to someone would call leave a message, then 325 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.359 you would page that person and person would call in 326 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.079 for their messages. And so I remember we had this 327 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.359 little room. It was cute. This little room off of 328 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.480 it wasn't even woo office thing. Nobody knows going on. 329 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.160 And we had a cute little room we had. We 330 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.759 had little TV's in there, you watch some TV. We 331 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:51.799 were chit chatting with each other. They made two or 332 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.160 three operators, only two or three percent a time, and 333 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.240 we all knew each other. We'd all go get food 334 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.319 and you know, and eating they there and I have 335 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:00.960 a little a little set ups and stuff, and it 336 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:02.720 was just so cute. It was so cozy and cute 337 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.160 in there. And you sit there for hours or your 338 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.799 eight hour shift and do it. I mean, I remember 339 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.039 that my little area. I wish. I wish I made 340 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.240 my area cuter. When I was at Morgan Stanley, it's 341 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:19.000 just an it was just an early shift. Well I 342 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:22.920 wish that I had I didn't take I didn't. I 343 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.680 was kind of fighting because I was working such an 344 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:26.240 early ship the Morgan stand. They had to be there 345 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.880 at five in the morning. And now I was a 346 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:30.839 night and back then I was in my late twenties 347 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.359 thirty thirties, and I was a night guy, and I 348 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:34.880 was like Jay, but I did not need this job 349 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.880 and this job was it paid good, paid very good. 350 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.559 And I just was a night guy, a party guy 351 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:43.519 at night. So it was just it was like I 352 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.680 didn't I wish if I was not a night guy, 353 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:47.960 if I had a job now, I would be I 354 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.519 would make my area a little more cozy. And that's 355 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.799 why I've learned a lot of my desk jobs. But 356 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:56.079 I later got a cubicle. Make it cozy, have your 357 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.799 little music, have very little set up, have a comfortable 358 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:02.759 chair point. And so that's why at home now I'm 359 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:04.920 trying to make my little area nice and cut see 360 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.880 and I have my plants, and I have my little music, 361 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.039 and I have I have my couple of chair and 362 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.559 you have make acute. And so that's why I think 363 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:14.599 that's was one of the things I'm some of the 364 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.519 jobs that I had that I loved, but those those 365 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.480 jobs are still out there. Dispatchers for my mother's dispatcher 366 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.960 airport police. She had her little area was cute, she 367 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.160 had all set up and everything too. We have that 368 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:31.039 in common, and uh and and it was it was 369 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.720 on fun and and like her, I've worked with graveyard shifts, 370 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.759 night shifts, day shifts, all that stuff. You know, I 371 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.759 actually am a person who likes I used to like 372 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:45.519 the nighttime shifts and the graveyards. I didn't like the 373 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:49.319 midshifts because you couldn't sleep intoo much and then you 374 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:51.559 when you gott for work, it was kind of your 375 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:55.359 day was gone, your night was gone. I'd rather either 376 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.000 just have the day and I go in at night, 377 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.359 which it was just fine. I didn't like those two 378 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:04.680 o'clock shifts, so those are three closes. Was like, I'm 379 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:06.599 in the middle of something. I don't want to leave it. 380 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:08.599 I was like, I don't want to leave that shift. 381 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.200 I don't want to leave. I'm like, I want to 382 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.319 say so it's hard. But if it was a nine 383 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.240 o'clock shift at night, it was different. I had the 384 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.079 whole day and then I go out at night to 385 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.599 go to work. At night, I had one. I had 386 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:21.680 one ship. It was nine forty five and five thirty, 387 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:25.880 and it was fun because it's not it's not crowded. 388 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:27.680 It's that there are a couple nights are a little crazy, 389 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:29.160 like Friday sight, I feel a little crazy. But most 390 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:31.359 of the time it was quiet. We'd have the lights 391 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.240 down low, We're just relaxing, talking to each other, catching 392 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:38.279 up on life, playing music, playing movies, whatever, and then 393 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:40.480 like and in the morning, we all go to breakfast 394 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:43.359 because everybody's going to working. If go to work, we 395 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:46.480 go to breakfast because you know, for us it was 396 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:50.000 like dinner or whatever. We go to breakfast, and then 397 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.160 and then we all go to our homes. And for me, 398 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.119 I would I would do a few things. I wouldn't 399 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:56.720 go to sleep right away. It took me a while 400 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.960 before I went to sleep, and then I'd go to sleep, 401 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.240