A Bad Job

Who else did crappy, meaningless work in their youth?

Paul Greenberg
5 min readSep 2, 2022

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The heads were in Barry’s trailer and I noticed them every time I went to drop off the ticket from the lumber yard. For a longtime I thought Barry’s name was Berry. In Colorado that was how people pronounced a name like Barry. I never asked how it was spelled just like I never asked what the arty looking paper mâché heads were doing in the contractor’s…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org