Another millennial on a way to a job interview: polka dot blouse, hair in a bun, wholesome midwestern look. I just know she is in marketing. After she hops in she tells my other passenger (underemployed hipster musician with whom I was just contemplating futility of the arts as a profession) that she is trying to get a job with impressively sounding international nonprofit that helps underprivileged minorities in developing countries create CO-OPS that do something… cannot remember what. Sounded fascinating, though. “Very competitive to get into” she says. “What was your last job?” I ask. “Just spent couple years in Himalayas teaching mountain climbing safety to sherpas”, she answers. Oh, that old job… I think. "So, what was that like?" "I will be happy not to eat another potato in my life" she says. "Sherpas are potato farmers, mostly. And their accident and mortality rate on Mount Everest are 10 fold those of tourist climbers, and not just because they are the once carrying all the stuff while outfitted with inferior equipment. People think they can magically just do all that stuff but they get hurt all the time and their backs are shot" She had a few unkind things to say about the *industry of Everest* and all the peaks she had climbed (not Everest) but all too soon she had to go. "I need to do something with my life" my other passenger said. |
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Sylvia
3/12/2016 12:26:47 pm
I imagine Sherpas would have something to teach about mountain climbing safety! But west knows best!
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