1) Paper rounds x several
2) Bit of reception work at my Dad's GP practice, for beer money. Cue many old dears coming in and saying "Ooh, I remember when you were born, young man!"
3) Selling bets for the Tote at various racecourses. What I learned from that is that a lot of people think it's OK to blow cigar smoke in your face just because you're behind a counter wearing a nametag.
4) Clerical officer at the Revenue's internal admin office - never did work out what I was actually supposed to be doing there, but given that they had to increase my salary to comply with the minimum wage law when it came in, it didn't seem to matter very much
5) Collection officer at the Revenue - fair bit of going out and banging on doors involved, total waste of time most of the time as people tend to be out working during the day; questioned this and got told to be quiet. That, and taking endless stroppy phone calls from people wanting to appeal against tax calculations they'd actually done themselves, got pretty old pretty fast
6) Financial janitor, firstly at medium-sized and more recently at very large accountancy firm.
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