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Ellis Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2759 total appearances

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And you get 200 bucks a pound.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

You trim a pound of weed, you get 200 bucks.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I started doing the math on it.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I was like, I only need to sell like this many pounds a year.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

in order to have like a minimum wage salary.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

You know what I mean?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Like what I always really wanted to do was find a way to work the least amount of hours so that I could have my free time to do art, skateboard, surf.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

enjoy my life.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I did not want to work 40 hours a week in an office and not have any time to do anything creative.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Um, and that's kind of why I worked at the telemarketing place because if I hit quota by like noon and it didn't look like I was going to get above quota and make, uh, make the company more money, they would just send me home for the day and still pay me for the full six or eight hours, whatever the shift was.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So it was like I was getting paid to skate while I was out.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I'd go straight to the park and skate.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And I've dated a bunch of like bartenders and waitresses, my whole or servers, excuse me.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

But they always make more.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I've always had girlfriends who make more money than me.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

So I don't know about this wage gap.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

I don't I don't know if it is maybe like a. Yeah, I mean, it is a myth.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Dude, no one is going to pay me.