Neville is rejected from manual jobs after arriving in America

Arriving in America in 1922 untrained, he was turned away from a job climbing telephone poles and from lumberjacking in Canada, always told he was not trained despite being unusually strong at seventeen or eighteen.
Date (happened)
c. 1922
unresolved
  1. c. 1922 stated · preferred
    Source Maker Maker Things ¶49"in those days in 1922 … at the age of seventeen, eighteen", told in Maker Maker Things (nid 1845)
Place
United States
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 7 February 1969 stated
    Source Maker Maker ThingsMaker Maker Things (nid 1845), telling 1845-7, told 1969-02-07
Sources

Source

  • Maker Maker Things ¶49 (I tried to get a job climbing the poles of electricity for the telephone company and they said that you aren’t trained, you’re not educated. I said, “What?—to climb a pole? Show me what to do and I’ll do it.”)