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For two and half years I worked as a master printer at a photography lab in Chicago that specialized in meeting the evidential and illustrative needs of lawyers, insurance agencies, and law enforcement - which is a fancy way of saying pictures of dead people. Ten to twelve hours a day, five days a week, I custom printed, one by one, 80,000 unique negatives, both color and black and white, from snapshot to poster size murals, documenting in detail the unfortunate and tragic occurrences of modern life. I learned three things: never get in a car, stay away from trains, and never lean against anything. Cars crash, trains are called rolling stock because they don't stop, and every single railing, balustrade and fence will eventually give way with grim results. It's probably also a good idea to avoid working in a factory.

• work
• business
• grind
• goods
• custom
• barton
• burn out
• last words