taxi! taxi!

Aaron aaron at burn.ucsd.edu
Sat May 16 13:23:52 PDT 1998


"Paul Altesman" <paltesman at igc.org> wrote:


>Even many a 60's pH dropout turned to cab driving. Salaries and
>conditions were reasonably high for unskilled blue collar employment.

Unskilled? New York cab drivers may be reckless, but they're not unskilled! If they weren't skilled, they, their passengers, and pedestrians would be dying like flies. Friends

- Aaron

P.S. A friend of mine -- a 60's PhD non-dropout who lost one university teaching job -- spent several years driving a cab in NYC until he got another teaching job (and eventual tenure).



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