A bookseller's career

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used to

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work at Book Soup for 40 years before I

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came here it was a good place to work

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when I first started there they got

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bought by another company called bromans

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in Pasadena and it became a little more

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corporate all these like independent

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stores started they just started going

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down even the the big you know

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conglomerate started going down as well

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so for Josh to like start a bookstore in

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this day and age it took a lot of guts

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you know what I mean and he started from

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the ground up and you know made a good

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place for people to work and I mean I

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couldn't ask for anything more I'm like

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really happy here so that's a good

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experience a good job

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I just love dealing with books you know

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why wouldn't you want to work with

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something that you love if I didn't make

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any money at all I'd want to do this

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it's sort of a hobby that turned into a

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business and became a little bit of an

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obsession and I just enjoy it so it

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doesn't feel like work to me and that's

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that's always the best kind of job right

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when you just feel like you're having

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fun and it's like what you would do as a

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hobby anyways

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I moved to Los Angeles in 2002 I think

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shortly after my parents divorced and a

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girlfriend broke up with me I had torn

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my bicep like the year before and I had

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like