The Sad Professions

By Miguel Maldonado

In this text " The Dishwasher", " The Miner", " The Sign Painter", " The Man Who Stamps Validations" and other officiants, find their part of melancholy. The author has exercised some of these jobs, which allows him to give his testimony, and the jobs he has not practiced imagines them in his sadness, which makes this book a work of empathy with the other, with us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9786079778514

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The Sad Professions

written by Miguel Maldonado

translated into English by Lawrence Schimel

First Edition, 2016.

Digital Edition, 2017

D.R. © Miguel Maldonado

D.R. © Destrazas Ediciones

3 Sur 1308-3, Barrio de Santa María Cuaco

San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, CP 70810.

ISBN: 978-607-97785-1-4

Index

The Sad Professions

The Dishwasher

The Miner

The Sign Painter

The Man Who Stamps Validations

The Uncomfortable Professions

The Night Watchman

The Blacksmith

The Cashier

Door-To-Door Salesman

The Encyclopedia Salesman

Professions

The Assistant

The Balloon Vendor

The Assistant’s Assistant

Those who well themselves for Medical Tests

Ambulatory Sweet Seller

Those Who Clean

Those Who Sell Their Hair

Odd Jobs

The Glass Artisan

The Worker

The Garbage Collector

The Invisibles

The Washerwoman

Costumed Street Performers

The Trucker

The Day Laborer

Construction Workers

The Lost Professions

The Clerk

The Assembly Line Seamstress

The Supervisor

The Shoe Repairman

The Archivist

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