from the funeral, goes back to the lady of the umbrella factory where she worked prior to meeting al smith sr. to get her job back. it's not enough. smith selling papers, it's not enough. eventually he goes through a rapid series of jobs working in a small candy store that his mother was a proprietor of. he then goes and works in a company that is a truck spotting. he used to run around the south end of lower manhattan and pick up the different trucks for his company and report them. don't come back, go to this spot. he was a truck spotter. eventually he gets the most famous job that he's well-known for, fulton fish market. as a young man who was a teenager, getting up at 4:00 in the morning rolling barrels, shoveling crushed ice, coming home smelling like fish. this led him into eventually getting a job where he wasn't getting up at 4:00 smelling like fish. he got to take home all the fish he wanted, which he used to joke about and say if you could pile all the fish up that him and his family ate, it would rip the rafters off the capital and slide down state street hill 15 feet deep, because