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MeatballTurbo

In article ,
says...
Aggreed. There are plenty of jobs about. Before I went to University I did
several jobs to get by...

Gardening
Avis RentaCar delivery driver
Taxi driver
Taxi controller

The taxi jobs especially made me feel realy down but my family needed
feeding and clothing. I could either sit on my arse for £120 per week or do
those jobs for £140 per week. That extra £20 meant dealing with drunks and
lowlifes, but it gave us £20 more self respect.

Agreed on that.
When I went back to uni as a mature student, I worked almost full time
hours (including evening and weekend shifts) in most of the Ladbrokes in
the Crewe and Luton area.

I too had drunks, vandals, and various unsavouries (including conmen and
armed robbers) to deal with. ironically, working weekends and evening,
and doing the amount of hours I was doing, I could sometimes bring home
more than a manager.

As it was my degree suffered (english lit), but I was able to get into
the internet development business in London.

After moving back north for a job, things didn't work out, and I lost
it. I ended up first signing on, then labouring for a shed building
company as a seasonal job (brother worked there as a driver/erector) for
6 months, another 3 months on the dole, then got 3 months working for a
company that had the Dell laptop contract for the whole of europe as an
agency temp, before I was able to get back in web dev work.
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