William Faulkner Was Really Bad at Being a Postman

[andai]

As a postman, this cheered me up a little.

[Isamu]

Reminds me - one of the ways Philip Glass made ends meet in the early days was by being a plumber, and he was particularly bad at that.

[glup]

Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) worked as a field ornithologist in his twenties. The samples (=dead birds) he collected from New Guinea are notoriously poorly labeled and poorly prepared (e.g. bits or flesh, missing feathers, etc.).

[jacquesm]

Einstein may have sucked as a patent clerk too. We tend to look at people's achievements rather than the things they did poorly at unless that's all they did.

I was - alas - a pretty good postman. That's not much of a legacy.

[Simulacra]

Ahhh Bukowski was my favorite postman

[justtopost]

John Prine still has my vote as best former postman.

[cafard]

Yes, well, Trollope was quite good at being a postal official, though he got off to a slow start.

[solveit]

Oddly inspiring

[JadeNB]

Despite its being in the title (and URL) of the article itself, it seems almost certain that the first 'a' doesn't belong.

[dang]

Yikes, how did we miss that! Reminds me of "Paris in the the spring".