Home Contact the Editor: editor@everythingihaveisblue.com	The Blue Contributors John Gilgun writes: “I had shit jobs until the fall of 1960. I define shit jobs as jobs a person cares nothing about except for the money—always minimum wage and sometimes with tips in my case—and from which you are always fired. I was always fired. In 1960, a miracle happened. I was offered a job as a college teacher. Teaching was so wonderful that I did it for thirty-nine years until I had to retire because I was going deaf and couldn’t hear my students. From busboy to college professor: that’s my bio. I taught at working-class colleges (except for my four years at Drake University in the sixties), and I taught working-class kids like myself who were in college because they hoped that with a degree they could escape the shit jobs from which they were also always fired. In those thirty-nine years I published six books, including Music I Never Dreamed Of (Amethyst, 1989) and Your Buddy Misses You (Three Phase, 1995) and hundreds of stories, poems, and essays in little magazines.”
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