A boy hires out as a MoPac fireman in this NY Times Business section piece...
A Boy Who Played With Trains - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/business/a-boy-who-played-with-trains.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper
"My first job that mattered was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, in 1963. I hired out — railroad lingo — as a locomotive fireman, working the switchyards in Little Rock, Ark. I was 19, and knew almost nothing about anything — certainly not about real work, and not about how work almost always affiliates you significantly with the lives of others."
A Boy Who Played With Trains - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/business/a-boy-who-played-with-trains.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper
"My first job that mattered was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, in 1963. I hired out — railroad lingo — as a locomotive fireman, working the switchyards in Little Rock, Ark. I was 19, and knew almost nothing about anything — certainly not about real work, and not about how work almost always affiliates you significantly with the lives of others."
