Get the job! But before you get the job, you must have experience! Grovel to the boss and take the experience you can get with his company. Shoveling shit?!?! Your boss is nice enough to have given you the job when you don't have any experience but he's not loaning you his good tools! Find a shovel before your first day on the job or get sent home! Convince your friend you'll pay him back when you get your first day's pay so you can use his shovel.

End of day. Go home to your wife eat 1/2 stale bread. Borrow a shovel from your friend?

First day on the job! Boss needs you to fix a wagon wheel instead of shoveling shit...but you brought a shovel. Plus the boss swore he told you that you needed to bring your tools, and you came unprepared?! The boss gives you two mins to run to the store and buy a hammer. Pay back your friend for loaning you his shovel and pay back the shop keeper for his hammer and generosity. Friends are essential to your success!

End of day. Go home to your wife and you eat 1/2 stale bread. She found a couple mushrooms while out so you are able to make the bread less hard with a "soup". Pay back your friend or feed your family?

Boss has you doing something else today so your hammer is useless. End of day. Go home to your wife with a couple groceries! Success, but the table is broken. You are grateful you have your hammer to fix the table! You fixed the table but in the process your hammer broke since it was the only one the shop keeper would let you have. Cheaply made hammer from another town.

End of day. You go to bed without eating because you didn't have time. The struggles continue...

Boss has you nailing some shingles to the roof of a clients' house specifically because he knew at least you had a hammer. But you don't since it broke while fixing your table last night. He begins to trust you because of your work ethic so he loans you his hammer. End of day, you get home with money in your pocket and food in the pantry! When opening the pantry you realize that there were a family of rats who ate your groceries. The only thing left is some stale bread that was untouched. Your wife refuses to eat the stale bread because she was really just expecting better from your new work.

End of day. Do you spend your day's wage on some Gruyere to make some onion soup with the onions you saw on your walk back home? Do you say "yes" to your wife who shared that maybe you can use your friday wage on a dress for her so she can impress her family on sunday when you go to church?

That friday feelin'! Your boss puts you on a job with more prestige. You get to help repair the windmill. Every second counts on this job because the time the grain isn't being processed he's losing money. Somehow you manage to fix the windmill through remembering how the wagon wheel was assembled. The client praises your work and gives your boss a tip. Your boss asks, "Do you wanna work tomorrow?" "Yes sir! I sure need the money!", you quickly reply.

End of day. Buy some rat poison to take care of the problem in your pantry before coming home. You also get some rabbit meat for dinner. The wife was hoped for the dress you talked about but is okay after you said you were offered work Saturday.

Today the boss has you working at his place with the tip you earned but which he received. You aren't so mad though because the job isn't terrible and at least you got the experience as a windmill repair man. Unfortunately you are shoveling shit from the owner's horse stables.

End of day. You have your money and you are on your way home when a driver runs over your foot with his carriage. Ahhh! I think my ankle is broken! By the time you've gotten off the ground from your excruciating pain the carriage is gone. You ask a stranger to get your friend and another to tell your wife to meet you at the doctor's. You won't be able to pay for your wife's dress and you'll owe the doctor money as well as you will not be able to work...You are feeling worse off than had you not worked saturday! You have no decision that you can make today.

Church day. You wake up with a swollen ankle and it doesn't feel any better. You go to church anyhow with the intent to pray for health and wealth but then you run into her parents and they say, "You both look so bad." Then they turn to you, "We always knew your weren't capable of being a provider."

End of the day. From then your wife doesn't say anything for the rest of the day. When you ask her what is wrong thinking it would be about the comments, she says only, "The rent is due tomorrow..."