Nate Thomas: ‘You’ve got to pay rent, got to do stuff’ Updated Mar 10, 2021; Facebook Share Nate Thomas had been working since he was 14. So when he lost his barista job at a Huntsville coffeeshop after the pandemic hit, resulting in him being unemployed for almost a month, “it was a really weird feeling,” he says. He took a job at a grocery store as a stopgap “because you’ve got to pay rent, you’ve got to do stuff.” Thomas, now 22, eventually landed another barista gig, at downtown’s Honest Coffee Roasters, where he’s worked for eight months or so. He calls Honest Coffee owner Christy Graves continuing to hire during the pandemic “a huge blessing.”