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2731374 No.2731374 [Reply] [Original]

any writers or philosophers who had manual labor/tradeskill jobs before they became famous?

I know wittgenstein was a gardener/engineer

>> No.2731380

Gene Wolfe designed the machine that makes pringles.

>> No.2731379

Palahniuk was a diesel mechanic. Wrote on his breaks.

>> No.2731383

>>2731380

0/10, i aint even mad, u didn't troll me

>let me google it anyway
>HOLY SHIT ITS TRUE

>> No.2731386

>>2731380
He must have had tiny hands. Fuck those tubes.

>> No.2731391

Haha thought you were trolling, neckbeard writer makes potato chip machines.

>> No.2731403

Spinoza was a lens grinder.

>> No.2731420

Jack London
Walt Morey

>> No.2731744

>>2731374
Nietzsche was a medic in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Hemingway was an ambulance driver during WW1. Don't know if that counts for anything in your book.

>> No.2731745

Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working the night shift at a power plant.

>> No.2731749

Murakami used to run/own a jazz-bar, does that count?

Knut Hamsun was, among other things, a ropemaker-apprentice.

Bukowski held down a couple of manual jobs.

>> No.2731755

>>2731374
Bukowski worked as mail sorter for a long time. And a shitload of other shitty jobs as well.

Arthur Rimbaud turned gun trader in Africa after he was done being a poet.

William Gibson worked in a headshop.

Kerouac worked for the railroads as a brakeman on freights.

>> No.2731760

I want to learn a trade too. It lifts one above ant-tier manual labour and seems to lack the inherent corruption of higher degrees.

>> No.2731759

dostoevsky was a soldier for a pretty long time

>> No.2731781

>>2731755
>William Gibson worked in a headshop.

why am i not surprised

>> No.2731790

>>2731760
10/10 would laugh again

>> No.2731791

David Foster Wallace was a full-time masturbator before Infinite Jest made him famous.

>> No.2731798

>>2731749
I should have expected it from Murakamis' huge number of jazz cafe references in ALL his novels.

>> No.2731799
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>>2731791

>> No.2731801

>2012
>Not being a psychologist and writing in your spare time.

>> No.2731809

>>2731801
>implying I'm not a real doctor

>> No.2731813

>>2731801
>2012
>psychology

>> No.2731819

>>2731813

>2012
>Being retarded

Pick two.

>> No.2731826

>>2731809
>thinks being a chiropractor or a dentist is being a real doctor

>> No.2731827

>>2731826
>implying the entire medical industry isn't an authoritarian power scheme

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>> No.2731834

>>2731827
>inferring something I did not at all imply

>also
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>> No.2731835

>>2731759

So was Poe.
Rousseau had a couple shitty jobs too.

>> No.2731842

>>2731819
I don't think you executed that correctly

>> No.2731847

I know it's futile to return to the topic at this point but Alan Sillitoe worked at a Raleigh plant and then joined the RAF in Malaya before getting TB and retiring at 21.

>> No.2731849

>>2731835

>Edgar Allan "Soulja"

Poe went to West Point for about eight fucking days then they canned his ass. Wouldn't exactly refer to that as "soldier for a pretty long time."