In the office I met a Prof Stewart from the university. He owned an apartment house at the end of Iowa Ave. It was 3 story, high end, adults only, low turnover as many residents were professional university staff. Each summer the Prof would use a high school mule to wash all the interior walls of all the apartments and hallways. His current mule, Bill F.,was graduating and needed to be replaced. Prof Stewart went to my school for a recommendation for a new rookie mule. Would I...
Would I !!!! Unless one lived on a farm in Iowa there was little summer work for youth. No McDonalds...no 7-11s...an occasional push reel mowing of a neighbor's
lawn for 75c or a buck.
I would be supervised by the live-in manager/housekeeper and of course the old farts who resided there. M-F for about 10 weeks.
A potential gotcha surfaced. I would be paid the same as Bill F. was paid per apartment, I was a 14 year old greenie following an 18 year old.
This turned out to my good fortune as I finished the whole job in about 6 weeks each summer for 4 years while being paid for 10 weeks.
Bill F. played football for Iowa and achieved a perfect 4.0 in med school.
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