https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r Extraordinarily Depressing en-us 2019-03-08 15:45:52 UTC 2025-11-18 10:29:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/339353969 Hey, I'm Charles Mickeny,  I am now 19 years old and I have been an orphan ever since my mom died. My mom, who was taking care of me, died 2 years into the Great Depression in the year 1831. At the time I was 11 years old and I have been stealing from stall vendors in New York since then. I still live in New York and was apprenticed at one of the stalls I used to steal from, but he doesn't have to know. I used to live in a shanty town, but now I live in the city.]]> 2019-03-08 15:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/339353969 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340696958 Today will be the third time this month that I've tried to get this job at the nail factory. Although I'm qualified I can't get the job because people keep pushing past me.]]> 2019-03-13 02:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340696958 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340698158 A couple months ago I found a little shanty town near the city where I'm apprenticed, and so I've decided to stay. I built the one in the far right corner nearest the city, but you probably can't see my little shanty from here. ]]> 2019-03-13 02:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340698158 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340700175 This is the stall I apprentice at in the city, and me and my master ,Mr. Briggs, sell chicken which goes for a good price to really hungry people who just got their pay. I get a pretty good pay for an apprentice because I get a 50c a day.]]> 2019-03-13 03:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340700175 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340701817 Today a whole bunch of people were rounded up and sentenced to jail time for not paying their debts from before the great depression. Luckily for me the person who owns the house next to me was jailed so I get to take his plot from him.]]> 2019-03-13 03:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340701817 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340702706 Right when i had lost hope of getting a job the manager hiring said" we need a little one for this job" and instantly I shot my hand up jumped and yelled so he would see me and he picked me out. This is my first day on the job and my pay is now 2.00$ a day!]]> 2019-03-13 03:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340702706 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340704257 Recently I noticed it was a bit too hard to fit in that crack next to the machinery and I wasn't able to clean the hole where the nails came out, so they fired me so that they could get a small child that could fit. Now I'm back to hunting for a job again, but I don't like my chances of getting one. Just look at that line!]]> 2019-03-13 03:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340704257 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340705973 The cut on the price for electricity and gas allowed a lot of companies to open jobs, and I got a new job at an automobile factory near the center of the city. My pay is back up and higher, it is now 4.00$ per day allowing me to save a little money and still eat.]]> 2019-03-13 03:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340705973 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340707366 I got promoted to manager and now work in an office off the side of the production line. My job is to check over employee's efficiency and report to the director who decides when to hire and when to fire. I now am at an all time high making 20$ a day!]]> 2019-03-13 03:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340707366 andrew_blevins https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340708629 Today a big war started over in Europe again, but us Americans are not going to join. This is not our fight and so unless we're attacked we will not attack. Even so a lot of my friends want to fight ]]> 2019-03-13 04:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_blevins/efiigs06yd2r/wish/340708629