Glass Repair
Glass work? You mean where you blow up those bottles on the... oh, okay. Really? That's your ambition? Yeah, I guess I can.
You'll go to work for some company that has a two-inch square ad in the yellow pages and promises 24-hour emergency service. Once they've trained you--which means you are told many times a day "Don't drop anything" and they teach you how to use the glass cutters--you are then the "qualified technician" and you get to wear the pager that interrupts all manner of meals, celebrations and romantic moments. Usually it's because some crazy ex gets drunk enough to forget the court order and you get to fix the window on the double wide.
Car repairs are also a specialty of your shop. You have the "innovative" technique that means a car windshield doesn't have to be repaired it can be fixed. Thing is, every glass shop has being doing that for decades. Your particular shop won't have good ventilation and days of inhaling the car window repair fumes will give you short term disorientation and long term illness.
You will watch yourself age badly in the customer service area--the fluorescent lights and a few hundred mirrors surrounding you allow for a daily self-analysis that simply depresses you as time takes its toll. Also, inhaling miniscule airborne shards of cut and broken glass for decades can't be good for one's lungs.
Then of course, if you're at all superstitious, is the cumulative 1456 years bad luck you've earned by breaking mirrors. Have fun with that.
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