It is to help out in the sales department, to keep books and records. You can start tomorrow. But, you realize that this is a permanent position. He had to tell another lie. How and when do you cash in on saved precocity.
Time is a great equalizer.
As you grow older it matters less and less how old you are, until, when you die, it matters nothing at all. He lived in this paradox of time. He thought it was fine and others agreed it was remarkable and applauded that at fifteen he could act like seventeen or eighteen and be as clever and agile as his elders. But thus he entered by another door Slim's games-machine industry, for that precisely was what the Mills Novelty Company was all about. A clean industry, a profitable one, depression-proof, teetering on the edge of legitimacy and racketeering in most places in America and the Caribbean.