Blimey you have had a colourful life.All I've done is tedious office junior-temp jobs - photocopying, stuffing envelopes, answering the phones. I feel quite deprived now.
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MizEmma,
Mon 10 Nov 2003, 14:50,
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Well can anyone beat this???Here's a list of all the jobs I've done/places I've worked in the last 25-odd years that I can remember. Most are in order but it gets confused as I've done so much temping:
Paper boy, asst. to window dresser, kitchen asst./waiter, McDonalds, barman in City luncheon club, grape picker (also involved interpreting between Catalan farmer and 3 Welsh lads), satsuma/orange/olive picker (France, Germany, Crete), drink seller (beach in Nice), drill warehouse, print warehouse, commissionaire, furniture mover, post-room for Readers' Digest & Olivetti, filing clerk in family planning clinic, driver's mate on laundry truck, butter stacker at Tesco, night clerk at 7-11, catering asst. at Kew Gardens, filing clerk at DHSS, admin. asst. at Kew Gardens, asst. to woodworker, burger flipper, Saturday yard boy at builders' merchant, self-employed cabinet-maker, asst. to product designer, line-feeder in razor factory, milk-bottling plant (fishing notes out of bottles), video library for Scandinavian satellite company, turkey abbatoir, barman, bar supervisor, odd-job man, gardener, and lastly 5 years in an insurance company.
In there somewhere are 1 year on a catering course, degree in art & design technology and a year's teacher training.
"There I throw my gauge!"
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Wed 12 Nov 2003, 14:14,
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Paper boy, asst. to window dresser, kitchen asst./waiter, McDonalds, barman in City luncheon club, grape picker (also involved interpreting between Catalan farmer and 3 Welsh lads), satsuma/orange/olive picker (France, Germany, Crete), drink seller (beach in Nice), drill warehouse, print warehouse, commissionaire, furniture mover, post-room for Readers' Digest & Olivetti, filing clerk in family planning clinic, driver's mate on laundry truck, butter stacker at Tesco, night clerk at 7-11, catering asst. at Kew Gardens, filing clerk at DHSS, admin. asst. at Kew Gardens, asst. to woodworker, burger flipper, Saturday yard boy at builders' merchant, self-employed cabinet-maker, asst. to product designer, line-feeder in razor factory, milk-bottling plant (fishing notes out of bottles), video library for Scandinavian satellite company, turkey abbatoir, barman, bar supervisor, odd-job man, gardener, and lastly 5 years in an insurance company.
In there somewhere are 1 year on a catering course, degree in art & design technology and a year's teacher training.
"There I throw my gauge!"