Mushroom picker
For about a week.

Big long 'beds' of half shit, half compost, in a big dark dingy shed. Even as a schoolkid, the pay was atrocious. Can't remember what it was, but about the same as a paper round, which was the alternative.

I got fired for destroying one of the beds. You were supposed to pick the old stalks out by hand (took ages, and you didn't get paid for doing it), I just scraped the top 1" of soil into a bucket with my hand and chucked it in a dustbin.
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I too have done that job
bloody awful.
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