Josh Malcolm smiles as he brushes freshly cut hair from the smock of a satisfied customer in the foyer of the Living Room, a daytime community centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Mr. Malcolm is there every Sunday, along with Ross Wilson and Cameron Sterling, to give free cuts and trims to the local residents in and around Oppenheimer Park. They have not missed a Sunday, their only day off of the week, since they started Street Thug Barbers. “I look forward to this every week. I wake up early on Sunday so I am always here,” he said between cuts. “It’s fun. It doesn’t feel like work at all.” He said that the anxiety he feels when he might be late for a client is the same anxiety he has on Sundays. He does not want to disappoint the people he sees on Sundays. However, like his partners, the time spent here is not work. …show more content…
Yet, that single day puts the whole week into perspective for Ross