I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life. One of the most unusual was tuna fishing on a pole-and-line boat in the Pacific. Since we were a pole-and-line boat, the first thing we did while we were trying to find a school of tuna was catch baitfish. These are small fish that tuna like to eat.
We had guys on the boat who placed hooks on the fishing lines, guys who baited hooks, and guys who held poles with baited lines in the water and hauled in the tuna they caught. I started at the bottom of the ladder as a junior hooker and quickly worked my way up to senior hooker. Then I was transferred to junior hook baiter. From there I worked my way up to master baiter.
Didn’t see that coming, didja? The 13-year-old kid inside me lives!
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