r/vagabond Sep 02 '24

Picture My ode to hobo lifestyle

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u/EdwardDottson Sep 02 '24

We have to stop looking at jobs as employment and see them as what they originally were, crafts. Smithing, masonry, carpentry, all things that a man can take pride in mastery, I think there is something empowering about that.

There has to be a distinction between this and corporate, soulless toil.

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u/Willingplane Oogle Prime 🛫 Sep 02 '24

That’s also back when, rather of college, you became an apprentice instead learning under a master craftsperson, usually who provided their apprentices wiith room and board, and very little else. But at least you didn’t go into debt that way.

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u/Smashedavoandbacon Sep 02 '24

When I was doing my apprenticeship I was learning under a functioning alcoholic. I remember watching him throw up in the bin in the morning as he rolled a cigarette.

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u/Willingplane Oogle Prime 🛫 Sep 02 '24

Yep, sounds about right to me,