Minimum Wage Jobs Analysis on Boxers, Briefs, and Books by John Grisham Why would I choose to work for a minimum wage job that makes me want to pull my hair out? In the short story, “Boxers, Briefs, and Books, by John Grisham shows that a minimum wage job can be miserable, but having that job can lead to our calling in life. Grisham talks about his background when having low paying jobs, and he talks about the having those jobs made him achieve his dreams. The experiences he faced when going through the different jobs made him into the man he is today. Without the knowledge from working the low paying jobs he would not have found his passion, which made all the hard work worth it. First of all, Grisham says, “For $1.50 an hour, I labored like a grown man as we laid mile after mile of chain-link fence.”(Grisham, John) He realized in having this labor intensive job he would have to find somethings less stressful for his body. He then found him working for a plumbing contractor. He soon learned plumbing very tough, and so told to crawl under houses to find the problem in order to fix it. Plumbing requires a strong person who does not mind looking at disgusting sewage. Grisham decided plumbing was …show more content…
He talks about, “One night I wrote “Chapter One” at the top of the first page of a legal pad; the novel, “A Time to Kill, was finished three years later.” (Grisham, John) He got he inspiration for the heartbreaking count case involving a young girl that had been raped. He talks about how he never thought of himself has a writer, but once his hand hit the paper it came natural to him. Even though his book did not sell he still had a passion to sit down at work and think about writing something new. He says, “I had never worked so hard in my life, nor imagined that whiting could be such an effort.” (Grisham, John) He found a passion that made him work hard, but it is worth it to