steveshooman

Several of your answers say that you were too young when it happened to remember the details. Have you not discussed this time period with your parents? If not: Is it because you did not have the opportunity to do so, or because people who survived didn't talk about it?

That's low for me too, and I'm in California. Minimum wage here is something like $8.50/hour, and I would have expected a physically demanding job carrying a risk of injury would gather closer to $14/hour, at least.

What do you do to orient yourself in a new city or country, to get over the first bit of culture shock? You've said elsewhere you're not phased by it anymore, but how do you figure out the customs/expectations/unspoken mores of new places?