Collecting bottles, tossing leftovers, taking out the garbage
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Jonathan Winston Jones is a social scientist and writer who mostly paid for college by working night shifts in a steel-die factory. He lives in Chicago. You can follow him on Twitter: @JWinstonJones.
Drugs can make us do stupid things — though, to be fair, drugs can also help us meet formidable demands. Meth can make you work hard as hell, the way my mom did, doing a full-time job at a farm-equipment company on weekdays and part-time retail jobs on weekends, until it all came crashing down.