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Livia 09-01-2020 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 10750953)
When I was a student I worked in a single-man pub kitchen frantically prepping, cooking and washing dishes all at the same time. It was hot, there were no windows, on my feet all day, burns on my hands constantly... but it was my favourite job to date :shrug:. I mean I wouldn't do it now as it was crap pay (though £2 above min wage at the time which isn't bad as a student) + zero hour contract even though I was working 30-40 hour weeks... BUT the work itself I loved. The time flew in.

It's funny... but I can see that. While at uni I worked as an office cleaner during the late evenings. Our supervisor was a really lovely West Indian woman and she'd play music and we'd all sing and dance while we were working. Made bin emptying and bog cleaning a lot more fun. I think working at the cinema was my very favourite student job, I got to see all the films for free.

Not sure I could have worked in your kitchen however, too hot for me.

Livia 09-01-2020 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 10750956)
Local council work! Good pay for minimal effort. I have legit been told this by many local council workers :joker:.

And let's not forget the superannuated pension. Ring the council and try to find someone to talk to at 4pm on a Friday afternoon.

Crimson Dynamo 09-01-2020 10:07 AM

for a whole 2 summers I counted cars. Sat in a small wooden box half way up a mountain, 12 hours, no loo, bring your own food, sat with a clipboard and a pencil. For the Council roads dept.

pay was good and i listened to the radio

Livia 09-01-2020 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10750962)
for a whole 2 summers I counted cars. Sat in a small wooden box half way up a mountain, 12 hours, no loo, bring your own food, sat with a clipboard and a pencil. For the Council roads dept.

pay was good and i listened to the radio

Sounds idyllic.

Crimson Dynamo 09-01-2020 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10750964)
Sounds idyllic.

it was when the weather was good it was, just me, the birds and the odd car now and then.

When it was battering down rain, not so much

Beso 09-01-2020 10:17 AM

Cosmetic tester on animals....very uncool

user104658 09-01-2020 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10750974)
it was when the weather was good it was, just me, the birds and the odd car now and then.

When it was battering down rain, not so much

**** as a teenager I'd have loved it in the rain, I'd have listened to Staind and read philosophy under an umbrella and thought about how no one else gets it.

Straight-down rain though, even as a teenage emo I hated wind. HATE. I feel like it's attacking me on purpose.

user104658 09-01-2020 11:26 AM

The fact that a council was paying someone a wage to sit and count some cars sounds like a parody though.

Niamh. 09-01-2020 11:29 AM

hhhhmmm traffic warden, clamper, anyone who ****s with your car basically :laugh: Other than that I suppose something that requires you to dress up like a mascot handing out flyers type thing?

user104658 09-01-2020 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10751006)
hhhhmmm traffic warden, clamper, anyone who ****s with your car basically :laugh:

Ahh true any job that involved being an arsehole must be the most uncool. "Can't pay? We'll take it away!" types too. Remember this guy?

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/C...SRMxbfCPkl.jpg

:umm2:

One of my favourite moments of that series was when Luke S(?) had to say "...Chris got pied..." in the diary room during the no laughing task :flutter:

BB: "...who got pied...?"

"....D:... :hehe:... Chris got pied"

MTVN 09-01-2020 11:38 AM

Chris the bailiff <3

Taken from us too soon

Kazanne 09-01-2020 12:15 PM

Traffic Warden
Bailiff
Tax man :hehe:

Dogeatdog 09-01-2020 12:29 PM

Toll booth attendant
Door to door salesman
Traffic Warden

Dogeatdog 09-01-2020 12:38 PM

https://media1.tenor.com/images/fbff...itemid=3569173

I do think that the people who do this is a pretty cool job though. Can’t even see wtf is being advertised but it seems like fun :laugh:


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