In 1994, at the age of 36, I found myself unemployed and in need of money. A downturn in the real-estate market had cost me my job in the title-insurance industry. Outside of that industry, I had few marketable skills. But Julie’s salary alone wasn’t quite enough to keep us afloat. To tide us over until another title-insurance job came along, I decided to look for work in a bookstore. I applied at a few local stores in Auburn and was rejected because I had no retail experience. Fortunately, I had a friend whose brother was a longtime Tower Books employee. My friend’s brother put in a good word for me with the manager of a Tower Books store in Sacramento, and I was hired. That’s how pathetic my resume was: I needed an insider to pull strings for me in order to get a minimum-wage job at a big chain store.
TOWER BOOKS
TOWER BOOKS
TOWER BOOKS
In 1994, at the age of 36, I found myself unemployed and in need of money. A downturn in the real-estate market had cost me my job in the title-insurance industry. Outside of that industry, I had few marketable skills. But Julie’s salary alone wasn’t quite enough to keep us afloat. To tide us over until another title-insurance job came along, I decided to look for work in a bookstore. I applied at a few local stores in Auburn and was rejected because I had no retail experience. Fortunately, I had a friend whose brother was a longtime Tower Books employee. My friend’s brother put in a good word for me with the manager of a Tower Books store in Sacramento, and I was hired. That’s how pathetic my resume was: I needed an insider to pull strings for me in order to get a minimum-wage job at a big chain store.