Monday Motivation….. March 20, 2023 (634)
Mrs. Mary Smith wakes the dockers of Limehouse, London, with her peashooter in 1927. A long vanished job.
When alarm clocks were unreliable and expensive, a knocker-upper was a person whose primary job it was to wake people up. In the 1930s, Mary Smith in this image earned six pence a week by shooting dry peas out of a pea shooter at the windows of employees that weren’t waking up in East London. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up.
This very famous photograph captured by John Topham was the first he ever licensed. He sold it for five pounds (a week’s wages back then) to the Daily Mirror, and decided to give up his career as a policeman and become a freelance photographer for the rest of his life.
Moral:
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don’t really tell the kids that it’s okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things. What defines us is not the job we do but how passionate we perform it!
Have a great week ahead…!
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