ha! internship no. Just regular old meat guy working with clint the 40-something who lives across the street with his dad and walks to work. He has been doing it for about 17 years now. Hopefully the same doesn't happen to me.
I do get to use a slicer. People ask to have things sliced often. It is scary being around all those saws and stuff. I will be very careful.
I might have to pull out the ole Dad card on this one, Karl. Koger's? Really? You're far more talented than Sam the Butcher.
I don't think you're trying hard enough. I know the IU BPO is dying to place you in a lucrative internship. TRY! Goddamn-it! (Thanks, by the way Betsey, for the obsecure reference. How do you spend your days? Watching Bunch re-runs?) ;-)
OK. Karl. I'm definitely not trying to give you a hard time. I'm just sitting here 7 years out of school and wishing that I would have TRIED harder to place myself in a job or career that I was good at and something that I loved to do. IU Business majors have all sorts of opportunites. USE THEM. EXPOLIT THE HELL OUT OF THE SCHOOL. It's all down-hill from there.
Seriously though - I love you and please be careful. Not sure I will still love you if you only have 4 fingers.
Oh and when are you coming to visit? Seems like the Kog' could spare you and Emily for a couple of days.
I like the sad last line of Margie's comment....you don't want to end up like me. Margie, you have a great life! I strive to end up like you :) Love you Margie!
margie don't be so hard on yourself, your taking a well deserved brake -- school for how many years - then working for how many more. alot of people wish they can take time off. -- when i moved to florida i worked here and there i wanted to do something i wouldn't do here so i worked in the toll booth for about 2 weeks.
You're learning a trade that is somewhat lucrative. You get to use meat-saws all day long and when people ask you what you did before being a kick-a' whatever-the-hell-you-end-up-being you can say you were a butcher. THAT is cool.
Plus, at least according to Meridth, you can have a better insight into the movie Delicatessen. (You've seen it of course?)
I call you whenever I'm looking to dispose of a corpse.
Being a deli man is LUCRATIVE?!?!? Edward, clearly you are making less than $8.00 an hour. I bet you Karl is making a "lucrative" $12.00 an hour. I don't know where the skill of being a meat man will ever come in handy. Except if you are a hunter...or really like to identify parts of animals
Being a deli man is LUCRATIVE?!?!? Edward, clearly you are making less than $8.00 an hour. I bet you Karl is making a "lucrative" $12.00 an hour. I don't know where the skill of being a meat man will ever come in handy. Except if you are a hunter...or really like to identify parts of animals
I think I have to go with Stacey on this one. Have a few different temporary jobs so you can understand what other people do to earn their livings. I didn't even know what I was going to do when I grew up until I was thirty-three years old. That was how old I was when I went back to college. The important thing is, you have to earn money to live. My dad always said it wasn't so much the amount of money that you earned, but that you earned an honest living.
I can remember Ed working at the pig farm. I can't even imagine what his mom and dad thought about that, but I sure bet they weren't thrilled. It was a good learning experience for him, and it didn't end up being what he did for the rest of his life. How could he know that he would get on at General Motors?
I believe that life is like a costume party, and it doesn't matter so much what you wear, but what you choose to do with your circumstances. So Karl, enjoy the new adventure, enjoy the romantic summer with Emily, and be sure you look like crazy for a job when you graduate! Dad will give you grief if you don't (ditto, Rusty).
By the way, Margie, you haven't "ended up" yet, so don't talk critically about "ending up" like you. You are a work in progress, and you are in intermission right now. I love you all, and will encourage you as much as I can.
Yeah Betsey, meat is totally lucrative! If you can find a niche market for gourmet goods and such you can do great. I paid a lot of attention to the business model that Kneaders in Orem followed in my brief time as a pastry chef.
So if Karl was thinking of opening his own business, maybe a premium quality butchers shop to cater to the nuveau-riche in bedroom communities around Indianapolis or Chicago, a start as a modest meat-man ($12 an hour or no) at Kroger is a stepping-stone.
they are both very interesting. i don't feel like typing the whole thing out but the short story is be happy who you are. if you are motivated enough to be something big, than that is the only thing that will make you happy. if you can be happy doing anything than you may just end up being a butcher for the rest of your life. there is nothing wrong with that. as long as you are happy.
now lets all group hug and puff off the hooka. damn hippies
karl, i love you no matter what you do. i'm not saying your going to do anything forever, i'm just telling you that no you are no less of a man or a person if you deliver newspapers the rest of your life. your still my brother.
theres those damn tree hugging hippies again. sorry everyone.
Betsey mentioned in the next post that she thought the beef looked icky. I'm all thinking that that hunk a' meat looks like a fantastic steak-aroo. I haven't had beef in ages, except for Burger King's Spiderman themed Dark Whopper. (Ugh.)
22 comments:
I'm sad that you won't get to use the deli slicer. You could be like Kramer :)
watch those fingers man. no one wants that in their chili. so is this like an internship thing?
-ryan
ha! internship no. Just regular old meat guy working with clint the 40-something who lives across the street with his dad and walks to work. He has been doing it for about 17 years now. Hopefully the same doesn't happen to me.
I do get to use a slicer. People ask to have things sliced often. It is scary being around all those saws and stuff. I will be very careful.
-karl
who was alice on the brady bunch dating? he was a meat man too.
do you just have the one semester left? i will be the only gimbel without a bachelors degree. some of you jokers even have a masters. eek
-ryan
Sam...Alice on the Brady Bunch was dating the butcher named Sam
My favorite episode with Sam was the one where cousin Oliver and Cindy got stuck in his freezer! CRAZY!
I might have to pull out the ole Dad card on this one, Karl. Koger's? Really? You're far more talented than Sam the Butcher.
I don't think you're trying hard enough. I know the IU BPO is dying to place you in a lucrative internship. TRY! Goddamn-it! (Thanks, by the way Betsey, for the obsecure reference. How do you spend your days? Watching Bunch re-runs?) ;-)
OK. Karl. I'm definitely not trying to give you a hard time. I'm just sitting here 7 years out of school and wishing that I would have TRIED harder to place myself in a job or career that I was good at and something that I loved to do. IU Business majors have all sorts of opportunites. USE THEM. EXPOLIT THE HELL OUT OF THE SCHOOL. It's all down-hill from there.
Seriously though - I love you and please be careful. Not sure I will still love you if you only have 4 fingers.
Oh and when are you coming to visit? Seems like the Kog' could spare you and Emily for a couple of days.
Kisses.
-M
You don't want to end up like me.
I like the sad last line of Margie's comment....you don't want to end up like me. Margie, you have a great life! I strive to end up like you :) Love you Margie!
Strange. I had re-written that and thought I had deleted it.
Anywho. I love you, Karl. And it's true - you don't want to end up like me ;-) Jobless. Homeless. And almost 30.
Kisses!
-M
margie don't be so hard on yourself, your taking a well deserved brake -- school for how many years - then working for how many more. alot of people wish they can take time off. -- when i moved to florida i worked here and there i wanted to do something i wouldn't do here so i worked in the toll booth for about 2 weeks.
i think a job at a toll booth would be funny.
-ryan
I say more power to you Karl!
You're learning a trade that is somewhat lucrative. You get to use meat-saws all day long and when people ask you what you did before being a kick-a' whatever-the-hell-you-end-up-being you can say you were a butcher. THAT is cool.
Plus, at least according to Meridth, you can have a better insight into the movie Delicatessen. (You've seen it of course?)
I call you whenever I'm looking to dispose of a corpse.
Being a deli man is LUCRATIVE?!?!? Edward, clearly you are making less than $8.00 an hour. I bet you Karl is making a "lucrative" $12.00 an hour. I don't know where the skill of being a meat man will ever come in handy. Except if you are a hunter...or really like to identify parts of animals
Being a deli man is LUCRATIVE?!?!? Edward, clearly you are making less than $8.00 an hour. I bet you Karl is making a "lucrative" $12.00 an hour. I don't know where the skill of being a meat man will ever come in handy. Except if you are a hunter...or really like to identify parts of animals
Okay, Mom's turn to interject.
I think I have to go with Stacey on this one. Have a few different temporary jobs so you can understand what other people do to earn their livings. I didn't even know what I was going to do when I grew up until I was thirty-three years old. That was how old I was when I went back to college. The important thing is, you have to earn money to live. My dad always said it wasn't so much the amount of money that you earned, but that you earned an honest living.
I can remember Ed working at the pig farm. I can't even imagine what his mom and dad thought about that, but I sure bet they weren't thrilled. It was a good learning experience for him, and it didn't end up being what he did for the rest of his life. How could he know that he would get on at General Motors?
I believe that life is like a costume party, and it doesn't matter so much what you wear, but what you choose to do with your circumstances. So Karl, enjoy the new adventure, enjoy the romantic summer with Emily, and be sure you look like crazy for a job when you graduate! Dad will give you grief if you don't (ditto, Rusty).
By the way, Margie, you haven't "ended up" yet, so don't talk critically about "ending up" like you. You are a work in progress, and you are in intermission right now. I love you all, and will encourage you as much as I can.
Claudia
Yeah Betsey, meat is totally lucrative! If you can find a niche market for gourmet goods and such you can do great. I paid a lot of attention to the business model that Kneaders in Orem followed in my brief time as a pastry chef.
So if Karl was thinking of opening his own business, maybe a premium quality butchers shop to cater to the nuveau-riche in bedroom communities around Indianapolis or Chicago, a start as a modest meat-man ($12 an hour or no) at Kroger is a stepping-stone.
-Rusty
I'm not going to tell any of you anything of what I'm doing anymore.
-karl
Why not Karl! I think this post generated the most comments EVER on the Gimbel Blog! Go Karl GO!
there are two different ways to look at this.
they are both very interesting. i don't feel like typing the whole thing out but the short story is be happy who you are. if you are motivated enough to be something big, than that is the only thing that will make you happy. if you can be happy doing anything than you may just end up being a butcher for the rest of your life. there is nothing wrong with that. as long as you are happy.
now lets all group hug and puff off the hooka. damn hippies
-ryan
karl, i love you no matter what you do. i'm not saying your going to do anything forever, i'm just telling you that no you are no less of a man or a person if you deliver newspapers the rest of your life. your still my brother.
theres those damn tree hugging hippies again. sorry everyone.
-ryan
Thank you Ryan, that's what I was thinking.
-karl
Betsey mentioned in the next post that she thought the beef looked icky. I'm all thinking that that hunk a' meat looks like a fantastic steak-aroo. I haven't had beef in ages, except for Burger King's Spiderman themed Dark Whopper. (Ugh.)
Hooray for beef! Hooray fro 22 comments!
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