Our latest contract
was completed two months ago, but the terms state we have to be there until the jobs finished, eta June 2011. We've treated the building site like a giant adventure playground, looked at everything that was new, spoken to and helped everyone on site and learnt everything there is to know about each other. We're bored, so very bored. I honestly don't know how we're going to keep this up for another eight or nine months.

One of the topics of conversation last week was about previous jobs we've had.

One of our guys used to work as an army recruiter. He used to be given £600 expenses a week and told to recruit in London pubs by buying rounds and chatting. Another worked as a poolside bar manager who was paid good money for sitting by the pool, drinking, chain smoking and telling people to 'help yourself' when they wanted a drink. Another worked as a temp in a factory for three years, clocking in, going home, then returning to clock out.

As for myself, I haven't got a story yet, but by this time next year, I'm expecting to be able to talk about hibernating in a drying room during winter or sunbathing in the park for days on end.
(Unit, Sun 12 Sep 2010, 23:19, Reply)