Word: cavellini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never going to get rich on it. You're never going to send your kids to college on it," Cavellini says. "It's a living wage...
...addition to putting workers in a precarious financial position, the cab industry can subject its drivers to physical danger as well, Cavellini says. Although he does not know of any actual murders of Cambridge drivers during his tenure, Cavellini says the spectre is always there, and armed robbery by passengers is relatively common...
...unlike some other blue collar jobs, driving taxis has a special appeal. According to Cavellini, most cabbies have something of the gambler in them, and enjoy the freedom and uncertainty inherent in their jobs. "You're outside, you're moving around, you get to feel the pulse of the city," he says...
Despite all drivers do to get out on the streets and make a living, Cavellini echoes, "they're not making enough to pay their expenses...
...When you drive a cab you take a chance with your life more than in almost any other profession other than being in the military or police," Cavellini says. "It takes a certain kind of personality...