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espola said:
You didn't read the whole article, I see.
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He worked briefly as a carpenter, which means he was an untrained goofer for the local contractor.
from the article:

Sanders was just another of the thousands of disillusioned urban intellectuals trying in those post-Woodstock years to create honorable lives outside the system in northern New England, where land was cheap and the natives were relatively tolerant of long-haired, bearded young men in jeans and women in long gingham dresses and sandals. Sanders worked briefly for the state Tax Department and then as a carpenter for a local contractor. Later, he sold ads and wrote for The Vermont Freeman, one of the first counterculture weeklies in the region.
 
Lion Eyes said:
He worked briefly as a carpenter, which means he was an untrained goofer for the local contractor.
from the article:

Sanders was just another of the thousands of disillusioned urban intellectuals trying in those post-Woodstock years to create honorable lives outside the system in northern New England, where land was cheap and the natives were relatively tolerant of long-haired, bearded young men in jeans and women in long gingham dresses and sandals. Sanders worked briefly for the state Tax Department and then as a carpenter for a local contractor. Later, he sold ads and wrote for The Vermont Freeman, one of the first counterculture weeklies in the region.
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It appears you don't know much about the Vermont working environment.

What's a "goofer"?
 
Lion Eyes said:
He worked briefly as a carpenter, which means he was an untrained goofer for the local contractor.
from the article:

Sanders was just another of the thousands of disillusioned urban intellectuals trying in those post-Woodstock years to create honorable lives outside the system in northern New England, where land was cheap and the natives were relatively tolerant of long-haired, bearded young men in jeans and women in long gingham dresses and sandals. Sanders worked briefly for the state Tax Department and then as a carpenter for a local contractor. Later, he sold ads and wrote for The Vermont Freeman, one of the first counterculture weeklies in the region.
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I think everyone should read that article.
 
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