Are you saying I shouldn't look you up then?
Is that what you call a joke?
Q: How do sick kangaroos get better?
A: They have a hoperation!
Don't you think that is better?
Since when did you become a comedian Try?
I think it was about the time both NASA and MIT turned down my job application for a janitor post. So I turned away from academia and headed for the stage. Do you think I made the right move?
(Good morning Stormy, I hope you are well)
All I can say is..Are you still exploring careers?
(Good morning Try, all is good here, and you?)
No, I think I will stay with being a Hobo, on the positive side you get free rail rides. Do you have any career advice for me?
(Good thanks)
If you insist on being a hobo, my advice would be to stay in a warm climate, don't you think?
Is it true that hoboes get free rail rides?
Excuse me Lady, but don'tya got a free rides card?
What kind of credentials do hobos need to get a free rides card?
Oh gee, I sure am glad you asked me that:
Hoboes is a name coined for men and women, but almost exclusive men that travel as migrant workers or left their friends and family in the depression or after wars when there was no work for them in their home cities. They either in many ways left to go look for a job or just to avoid the stress and strains of life in a family where they could no support their families because there was no jobs. They would maybe jump on a train, and ride in a boxcar to the next city to find a temporary job where they was building a large building, or some other temporary job like picking strawberries for the season.
Hoboes do not like to be labeled or to have people talk for them, they are an independent lot and they really do not fit into an categories. The ones that actually call themselves Hoboes have a sort of code of the road that they adhere to or are aware of, and this code is some ways enforced or not enforced. The Hobo is penniless and poor, and lives by his or her wits from a day to day existence and the future is not important because they have to normally make the cheap choice, and not the best choice. They are pragmatic and accept the reality that they are not rich and they must accept the way they must travel from place to place.
There is a love of Hoboes for the trains. Train hopping is almost synonymous with being a Hobo and although there is no hard cored connection that says a Hobo must travel by train, it is the customary or common way for a Hobo to travel. In the early years of transportation in the USA the easiest, quickest, and most convenient way to travel was by rail so there became a Hobo culture that had its community centered around the trains and living close to the railway. They would set up camps close to train tracks and live in these camps waiting for the next train, or working at a local job, and ready to leave whenever they heard the sound of the train whistle.
Life for the Hobo was harsh, and brutal in many ways, it was not the life for the weak of will, or the person that could not tolerate some bad conditions. They did what they had to do to survive and this was not always the best of ways. A Hobo was in many ways a good family man that ran astray and did not know how to compete in the world of normal jobs, and especially when the ravages of war or the depression took away their jobs, and threw them into the road. So there is a resourcefulness to the idea of being a Hobo that says you will survive by doing what you have to do.
Hoboes were both loved and hated by people. Maybe there is the "but for the grace of God, there goes I" mentality, and back to the basic idea of human nature. People take care of each other in the end. If the time really get bad, and there is a common bound of misery, or poverty people can share, but they can also be cruel and mean. Life is not always so good for the Hobo, you do not just fit in like the rest of the people, and how do you ever get up to normal standards of the community by getting a good shower, a clean bed and cloths when you are living in boxcars or traveling for days, and the last meal you had was not remembered clearly.
Hobo is almost exclusively used by the American culture and small amounts by the British, Australian, or New Zealand cultures. Basically it is an American originated word and adopted or utilized by other English speaking countries. It is part of Americana and the world of being a rag muffin immigrant land where people had traveled to for the dream of golden streets, and land of plenty, but there was not always a way to live. The American dream although not achieved by the Hobo, was still professed, and understood at it more essential end. Being a Hobo in America was about the ability to claim the American dream in the end by saying,- I be Hobo, I be FREE. Does that answer your question?
Try, you have researched your career well, did you write the job description?
Why are you talking to someone who isn't there?
I like to be thorough, I talk to you when you aren't here don't I?
Are you talking or merely typing?
I talk while I type, don't you?
Do words mean less when typed?
Are you saying I am not meaningful as I have not spoken to you in person?
You mean everything you say and type, don't you?
Absolutely not, words are the same by whatever means of transmission, are they not?
