He should have called his friend, Little Johnny Edwards.
Surely he could have gotten a job at the mill. And if that didn't work out, heck, he could get a job on the farm, plowing fields and "feeling good" but "tired".
You are being cruelly sarcastic and un-feeling. Where is your compassion?
Poor Gigolo John, probably had to make do without a Valet and give up lobster and caviar. The man suffered and it still shows in his face. That face that makes us suffer to look at.