“I was a teenage janitor”
IN MY SHOES: Jackie Gingrich Cushman discusses her stint as a teenage janitor at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, GA with Washington Post political writer Melinda Henneberger – who, as it happens, had herself done janitorial work as a teen:
“I had so much satisfaction when I went in on Sunday mornings and the bathrooms were clean,’’ she said. “There was a lot of satisfaction in seeing a bathroom I’d cleaned with by [sic] own hands; who wants to walk into a dirty bathroom?’’ Cushman, who was paid by the hour, said she also enjoyed using the money “for clothes and eight-track tapes.’’
For her part, Henneberger writes that her job entailed “mowing, painting, and yes, scrubbing bathrooms, in an elementary school,” and that she had "no complaints.”
It’s disturbing that FOX News analyst Juan Williams thinks that doing an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay at a job requiring unskilled labor is demeaning. Somebody’s got to do these jobs, and it’s better that they are young or poor Americans who could use the money and will spend it in our economy rather than illegals who send their earnings to their families back home while making ends meet with taxpayer-funded food and housing assistance.
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