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Around the world in 80 jobs Bellevue man finds work, experience in his global travels
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with Santa Claus in the U.S. Barr suspects that he’s the only foreigner to have auditioned for the part, and insists that experiences like that one, have allowed him to experience global cultures in a way no other tourist could. “The first time you go abroad maybe you go on some boxed tour or something. Or if you’re a young person, maybe you stay at a hostel, then go out and explore on your own, or coach surf,” says Bar. “But [to be] on the back of a wagon, going through the Alps, in a Krampus mobile with 20 other guys who don’t speak English, that’s a whole other layer to knowing a culture.” Barr returned to Bellevue this December, but hopes to
The suspect in the Munchbar homicide on Christmas Eve, Ja’mari Alexander Alan Jones has ben caught. Jones was taken into custody in Lakewood during a traffic stop Wednesday night. Just after 8 p.m., Lakewood officers took Jones into custody after randomly running the license plate of a Toyota Corolla. The vehicle license returned as a reported stolen vehicle out of Auburn. Ja’mari Alexander Alan Jones More patrol units were called to assist in a high risk vehicle stop in the 10800 block of Pacific Highway South. Both Jones and his 20 year-old girlfriend, Maliesha Imunique Saleem, were arrested without incident for possession of a stolen vehicle. During the traffic stop investigation it was determined that Jones was wanted in the Bellevue homicide. Bellevue police detectives were notified and both Jones and Saleem were transported to the Bellevue Police Department jail. Both were interviewed by detectives and later
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While talks of a stagnant economy still saturate the public dialogue, Turner Barr has spent the last year as a tequila harvester in Mexico, peddled tours outside the Colosseum, made pizzas in Italy and sold Christmas trees in Germany, just a few of his many odd jobs. “Most Americans do two months in Europe [after they graduate], and that’s their biggest hoorah,” says Barr. “Then they think, ‘I have to go to the real world now,’ whatever that means, rather than creating a world they want to live in.” Barr grew up in Bellevue. He attended Newport High School, and later went on to UC Berkeley, where he says he got good grades, and excelled in most subjects. But like most graduates, he didn’t feel satisfied with his college years. “American universities pump this idea: You go to school, you get the best job you can, you make the most money you can. They don’t give you
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Turner Barr has set his sights on becoming a safari guide in South Africa. COURTESY PHOTO direction. They don’t ask the question: What is it you’re good at,” says Barr. “In fact, they gloss over all that.” After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2007, Barr traveled to Latin America, using the money he’d saved to get around. He had plans of opening a youth hostel in Columbia, but when the economy tanked, so too did his business venture. Barr didn’t feel done with his travels, so he got his master’s degree in Luxembourg, while plotting his next move. That’s when Barr realized, there was nothing keeping him from living abroad. So he started a blog, titled “Around the World in 80 Jobs,” and began puddle jumping from one country to the next, hustling for gigs as he went. Each new experience was
converted to a blog post. Barr didn’t want to compete with the host of travel bloggers in cyberspace. He wanted to prove to himself, and others, that his dream was feasible. “It’s hard to get at what you want to do in life, what are your values, because those are derived from experience,” explained Barr, who admits most of his peers have already fallen lockstep in with the rest of his generation. “...But you have to create those opportunities.” Barr recalls one of his most recent gigs in Austria, where he played the role of a Krampus, an abominable-snowmanlike creature that disciplines children who’ve misbehaved around the holidays. Young men, dress up as the ghoulish figure, visiting with children much as kids take pictures
First year of SR 520 tolling on target in terms of revenue, traffic The state marked its first year of all-electronic tolling on the State Route 520 floating bridge Saturday, Dec. 29, with both revenues and traffic meeting projections.
The tolling is designed to provide more than $1 billion to help pay for the construction of a new bridge. “Thanks to early tolling, we
are already collecting revenue to fund the ongoing construction of a replacement bridge,” said Craig Stone, assistant secretary for the Washington State Department
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of Transportation, Toll Division. “Moreover,” he added, “variable tolling is giving drivers a more reliable trip across the bridge. We are right on target.”
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