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- JagPop, on 04/09/2009, -0/+20I recall, from a few years ago, a valued technical consultant sharing something he had told his wife once.
When the demands and responsibilities of his job seemed overwhelming and wearing him down he relished a particular job he saw. Driving with his wife he witnessed a guy sitting in the back of a truck dropping highway cones in a line. "That's the job I would love", he told his wife.
Wonder how many professionals have had similar thoughts at some time or other?
His story seeded my imagination and, thinking about it, I came up with something other than dropping cones on a highway. I would get a pushcart. But "location, location, location"; I would put mine in a shady spot on the edge of a beach. Not just any beach, it had to be populated by
good scenery.
Hey, *my* dream, get your own. - TimBuc1, on 04/09/2009, -0/+13When I read the headline and, "Her husband, Ben, is a pipeline operator" I really thought this was going to be about porn.
- onlysc, on 04/09/2009, -0/+13aaahhhhh, the american dream!
- Blinker1315, on 04/09/2009, -1/+8Unfortunately, this sort of story is appearing more and more often these days in newspapers across the country. While this particular one had some uplifting moments--there is a certain sense of liberation of not being tied to a desk and doing something completely different--pushing a hot dog cart or trying to start a new, wholly different business, isn't what most people had in mind as they edged closer to what they thought would be a comfortable and secure retirement.
- terracottapai, on 04/10/2009, -1/+8The bigger news is that the word 'Frankfurter' has been used for the first time since 1928.
- yocouchdigga, on 04/10/2009, -1/+7I want to be a hot dog vendor.
- danio, on 04/09/2009, -1/+7***** FRED.
- OKoperator, on 04/10/2009, -0/+4a new livelihood with relish- pun intended?
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+4 * Marge Simpson *
- "Do you follow my husband around everywhere?"
* Hotdog Vendor *
- "Lady , he's puttin' my kids through college!" - adirectsrc4gfts, on 04/09/2009, -1/+5way to think outside the box!!
- pinkcherry, on 04/10/2009, -0/+3Don't knock the hot dog vendors. We have some amazing ones here in downtown Los Angeles that have the hot dog wrapped in bacon and topped with sauteed bell peppers and onions.
- YamsterYams, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4Danio's apparently a wise guy who's never had to work for a living.
- Blinker1315, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4What's your beef, oh danio?
- sciencelovesyou, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2You're doing it...
... well, right, actually.
Good job! - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -2/+4Beats working at Wal Mart.
- TVarmy, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2Yep, shows that we're better off than in the Great Depression. We're selling meat this time.
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/13/9571 ... - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2I don't know what (if anything) it says about us as a people, but in tough economic times, restaurants and bars tend to have a bit of an up-swing.
- perrym, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2dugg for the hotdog hedcut.
- Licurgo, on 04/10/2009, -1/+3i predict that one day the donut vendor is gonna barter with the hot dog vendor,and both gonna barter with the tacos vendors and he is gonna barter with...
- scamper22, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2you got that right.
I do wonder at times why we think the real jobs that provide services we all need each day are not jobs people think are 'good' jobs.
I get a hell of a lot more use out of cooks, waiters, garbage men, cone layers... then I do out of half the professionals. I'm one of them and I think of this too.
But anyways... - badot, on 10/09/2009, -0/+1Of course, Americans are turning to a new livelihood
http://badotinside.blogspot.com - sciencelovesyou, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1Hardly! This the Wall Street Journal, not some dime-store rag. A pun of that caliber just doesn't cut the mustard.
- danio, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1i like yams.
- wertach, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1I want to do the hot dog vendor. She's kinda hot.
- Blinker1315, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1It was a FEATURE story. In fact, look at the dailies across the country and you'll see that the Wall Street Journal has more substance, along with the NYTimes, than any other.
- joe8pack, on 04/10/2009, -2/+2man bites dog, always a great story. Good to see the Wall Street Journal finally writing at their real core competency level. A tube steak saga, investment banks are wracked with fraud, Berkshire Hathaway just got downrated by the credit agencies, unemployment continues to rise and the best topic they could find to write about was cow lips ala cart. Ah the mainstream corporate media, a thick blanket of propaganda over a world of financial fraud, and they wonder why their circulation numbers keep dropping.
- goldie7, on 04/11/2009, -0/+0Totaly agree with last comment. Bars are on the rise.
- pwner, on 04/10/2009, -2/+1I'd sell fish sticks
- EdLau, on 04/10/2009, -1/+0Japadog rules!
- dikky, on 04/10/2009, -1/+0if you know how to make a good dog, you can make a lot of money in a few hours as a hot dog vendor
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -1/+0that is because newspapers talk about EVERY instance of this happen. But please, stop acting like there are millions and millions of people doing this sort of thing. there aren't.
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -2/+0for the vast majority of people, what works is simply continuing with our lives as we always have been. Most people are not worse off at all than they were 2 years ago.
And many, mmnay people who got laid off in hte last 6 months or so have already found a new job. Maybe not as good a job as they had, but they are not resorting to silly things like this. - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -3/+1"more Americans" are doing this. Yeah...more Americans. Like an additional 0.00001% of them.
- theavenger2, on 04/10/2009, -4/+2I accidentally the frankfurter :)
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