oh the memoriesso many, all done in holidays when a student, all of these were done for a least a few weeks each. All for £3 an hour or less.
1) shoving lambs through a bandsaw at an abatoir - I'm now vegetarian,
2) dustman - in very hot summer, the stench and backbreaking work was unbelievable - this was in the days before wheelie bins.
3) Polystyrene factory - spending 8hrs a day feeding polystyrene into a big blender to be recycled, so noisy that even with ear-protectors I would be deaf for the rest of the day.
4) council - park maintenance - using big petrol strimmer - or dog shit blender as it was affectionately called.
5) Gin factory, 8 hrs a day gluing little rubber seals on bottles of export gin - very stimulating compared to some poor temp who's job was to watch cardboard boxes come down a conveyor belt and pick them up if they fell over - he was there 8hrs a day for 10 days and NOT ONE SINGLE BOX FELL OVER!
6) In between these crappy temp jobs I worked at McD's for 5 years.
7) now a PhD with cushy research job, thank F*ck!
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1) shoving lambs through a bandsaw at an abatoir - I'm now vegetarian,
2) dustman - in very hot summer, the stench and backbreaking work was unbelievable - this was in the days before wheelie bins.
3) Polystyrene factory - spending 8hrs a day feeding polystyrene into a big blender to be recycled, so noisy that even with ear-protectors I would be deaf for the rest of the day.
4) council - park maintenance - using big petrol strimmer - or dog shit blender as it was affectionately called.
5) Gin factory, 8 hrs a day gluing little rubber seals on bottles of export gin - very stimulating compared to some poor temp who's job was to watch cardboard boxes come down a conveyor belt and pick them up if they fell over - he was there 8hrs a day for 10 days and NOT ONE SINGLE BOX FELL OVER!
6) In between these crappy temp jobs I worked at McD's for 5 years.
7) now a PhD with cushy research job, thank F*ck!