Odd-job

1902 – Left for Switzerland where he lived in poverty, doing only odd-jobs

After a couple of years he'd come back to Colorado and chilled out at the Scotts' place. He'd planned to stay a few weeks, maybe doing odd-jobs to earn his keep.

Rosenblatt had spent eighteen months infiltrating the gang's infrastructure; starting at the lowest level, working odd-jobs for the street pushers Sol had worked his way up the organisation and had now secured a job working in the main drug factory on the south end of Hester Street, a building known as The Ballroom.

We had the logs delivered and an odd-job man carted them upstairs, but in the absence of a footman I had to make sure all the fires were lit and kept going in winter.

On Jaffer's second day of joining this group of odd-job seekers, a man who came in his car and hired a fat man from the queue with a ladder and a bucket in his hand, to whitewash his house, also took Jaffer as an extra hand, at almost half the rate which the man was to be paid.

This makes it easier to understand why odd-job workers become the target every time the government “cleans up the city,” although they toil for the least pay and are subject to all kinds of injustices.

Both boys and girls were expected to 'odd-job' to bring in extra funds.

Some of the actors were locals, others outsiders who odd-jobbed it while they performed.