Comments on: James McMurtry At The Mint http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2010/02/12/james-mcmurtry-at-the-mint/ First in Music Analysis Wed, 23 May 2012 13:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: And the poor ultimately go back to a life of drudgery | Attention Crash http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2010/02/12/james-mcmurtry-at-the-mint/#comment-528204 And the poor ultimately go back to a life of drudgery | Attention Crash Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:01:39 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2010/02/12/james-mcmurtry-at-the-mint/#comment-528204 [...] This is your motivational post for the day. Corporate recruiters came to Middlebury, but I didn’t put on a suit and show up and brown-nose. No one I knew did. Life wasn’t about achievement, but experiences. John worked in an auto plant, saving money for a year in Europe. Steve and I went west to Little Cottonwood Canyon to be ski bums. We were going nowhere fast. And the only people who had a problem with that were our parents, who’d made all kinds of compromises so we could live our dreams, but were frustrated we had no safety net. [...] [...] This is your motivational post for the day. Corporate recruiters came to Middlebury, but I didn’t put on a suit and show up and brown-nose. No one I knew did. Life wasn’t about achievement, but experiences. John worked in an auto plant, saving money for a year in Europe. Steve and I went west to Little Cottonwood Canyon to be ski bums. We were going nowhere fast. And the only people who had a problem with that were our parents, who’d made all kinds of compromises so we could live our dreams, but were frustrated we had no safety net. [...]

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