Old Jimmy is a lamp-lighter living in the Ninth District.
This is a job that seems insignificant, but it's essential for the city.
He needs to light all one hundred and fifty-three lampposts along the street before dark each day, ensuring they're all illuminated, and then extinguish them when daylight returns.
It's not a laborious task, one might even call it easy. After all, the one hundred and fifty-three lampposts line the main road of the Ninth District, and by walking from one end to the other and back, one can light all the street lamps.
Maintaining these street lamps isn't Jimmy's responsibility; his sole task is lighting and extinguishing them.
Correspondingly, Jimmy's income is quite meager, as it's truly a simple job that anyone can do well.
He secured this job only because he had been to war, lost a leg for his country, and earned a shiny medal.
