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ChaptEr 2: Launch “You can really get tired of hot dogs and oranges after a while,”31 Elon later joked in an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Occa- sionally he threw in some pasta, a green pepper, and even a giant jar of tomato sauce. “So if I could live for a dollar a day,” he explained, “well, it’s pretty easy to earn like thirty dollars in a month.”32 Elon started knocking on doors looking for work. He tried farm work, growing vegetables and shoveling grain. He went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and wielded a chain saw as he tried logging. The most profitable post in this series of odd jobs was cleaning the boiler room of a lumber mill. But it was the stuff of nightmares. Pulling on his hazmat suit, Elon crawled and wiggled his way through a tight underground tunnel to access the boiler. “Then, you have to shovel and you take the sand and goop and other residue, which is still steaming hot, and you have to shovel it through the same hole you came through. There is no escape. Some- one else on the other side has to shovel it into a wheelbarrow,” Elon explained. “If you stay in there for more than thirty minutes, you get too hot and die.”33 On the upside, he made eighteen bucks an hour. Once Elon had a little bit of money, he enrolled in college. Soon, his mother came for a visit. In addition to seeing her eldest boy, Maye was on a mission of her own—scoping out Canada and making a plan to move there. Back in South Africa, Elon’s fifteen-year-old sister, Tosca, was also getting down to business. While her mother was out of town, Tosca put the family home on the market—and sold it. Then she sold the furniture and her mother’s car. When Maye returned to South Africa, Tosca asked her mother to sign on the dotted line to close the deal. 27

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