If I had lived in the Dark Ages I would have been a troubadour. So I quit my job and ate oatmeal and hotdogs two years, and did the starving writer bit. (That sounds so bad, like the art capital of Mongolia).
And I did another one, and it paid for the bills.Within two months I got picked up by a magazine in Toronto, which is the art capital of Canada. And he asked, "does this guy know anything about art"? She said, "Well, Dough went to art school." So he phoned up and asked if I wanted to do a story. someone was at a party and read it and thought it was kind of funny. I sent a postcard to a friend in Japan and she put it up on her fridge. About 1988 I just fell into writing by accident. I'd take chalk and write names like Louella in script so that the seamstress could go over it. That was a recession year, and you'd do anything for money. Sometimes people would ask me, "So Ed.?" It was great, like zen.ĭuring art school I once had a job making bowling shirts. I think the most contented job I ever had in my entire life was pumping gas at Chevron station at the west bound exit off the highway 401. I've had so many stupid jobs in my life I can't believe it. What did you do before you started writing?Ī: Oh, god. Q: The characters in Generation X show a lot of frustration with their jobs-they change jobs frequently and tend to choose ones they don't like. The following are excerpts from that conversation. The Crimson recently spoke with Doug Coupland, author of Generation X.
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