Ooh, it’s a meme, this time from Meg who had a special request for the first one.
Forty Four (or so) jobs I’ve had (roughly in order since 1989):
- Assistant, Chemist Counter, Boots, Saturdays
- Building site labourer
- Toiletries factory staffed predominately by middle aged women “with mattresses strapped to their backs”.
- Bookseller – Hatchards, Winchester (Xmas temp)
- Bookseller – Athena Bookshop, Southampton
- Bookseller, Dillons, Winchester
- Reprographics assistant, Mail Boxes Etc, University of Birmingham
- Bookseller, Dillons, Birmingham
- Bookseller, Waterstone’s, Birmingham
- Bookseller, Waterstone’s, Cheapside, London
- Bookseller, Waterstone’s, Charing Cross Road, London
- Bookseller, Waterstone’s, Leadenhall Market, London
- Labourer, Organic Farm, Isle of Wight
- Food prep, Kitchen, Otterbourne
- Chambermaid, Winchester
- Cable Puller’s Mate, Winchester
- Refuse Collector, Banbury
- Car factory, Banbury
- Office drone, Airline, Birmingham
- Cold-store warehouse, Thatcham
- Box lugging, Rubery
- Mail room, Bank, Birmingham
- Building a fake house, NEC, Birmingham
- Fly-tip clearing and litter picker, Birmingham (all Birmingham from here-on)
- Delivery driver’s mate
- Tampon Factory
- Giant Otter, sea Life Centre
- Marshall, Bike marathon
- Pharmacy Stores, QE Hospital
- Quality Control, car factory
- Production line, car factory
- Catalogue warehouse
- Dog food warehouse
- Assembling large metal doors for lockups
- Tyre warehouse
- Quality control, Landrover
- Inspecting doodads for excess solder
- Leaflet delivery
- Self-employed website designer
- Odd job man (mainly garden work)
- Office job phoning people to see if they’re dead or not.
- “Fine art” dispatch warehouse
- Car park attendant
- Parcel courier depot
- And many more that I’ve forgotten about or didn’t blog at the time…
Four movies I can watch over and over:
- Casablanca
- Gross Point Blank
- Blazing Saddles
- god, I dunno… I’m kinda stuck here…
Four places I’ve lived:
- Singapore (1973-1979)
- Croydon (1985-1989)
- Winchester/Eastleigh (1989-1995)
- Birmingham (1995-2000, 2003-date)
Four TV shows I love (though I don’t actually watch TV…):
- Battlestar Galactica (So much better than it should be)
- Buffy/Angel/Firefly (DVD box sets in one sitting)
- Spaced (if a little too close to home…)
- The Crow Road
Four places I’ve been to on holiday:
- Fuji (some time in the 70s during a typhoon)
- West Texas
- Guernsey
- Robin Hood’s Bay
Four of my favorite dishes:
- Fried Breakfast in a Cafe
- Peanut Butter sandwich (optional extras: Chocolate Spread or Banana)
- Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
- A raw vegan meal prepared by my mate Helen that didn’t look like much but which was delicious and filled me right up.
Four sites I visit daily:
Four places I would rather be right now:
- Here in the summer
- Visiting my mates Dave and Ruth and their babies in Alyesbury
- Up a mountain with a thermos of tea
- In a field with a shovel and instructions to dig a big hole for no readily apparent reason.
Four bloggers I am tagging (though they shouldn’t feel obliged or anything):
Robin Hood’s Bay – yay!
Excellent stuff! I knew you’d rise to the challenge. My goodness, you’ve had a lot of jobs, though.
I just visited Meg’s Flickr – neat photography!
Just remembered, I completely forgot the two months in a bakery factory in Eastleigh doing 12 hour night shifts, circa 1995, I think. Christ, that was a hot job…
Though I did discover that all the pre-pack supermarket bread along with most of the Hovis-type brands comes out of the same big machine, which is handy to know. (And explains why they all taste like shit.)
Cheers for the tag Pete – I was half thinking about doing it regardless of whether someone tagged me! Unfortunately as you’ll see from SWSL I haven’t got internet access from today for around a week, but I’ll get something sorted as soon as I’m back online.
Hi Pete,
Wondering where this four tens thing comes from, and about The Crow Road being a TV prog – it’s one of my favourite books, assuming it’s the same thing…
Karen
Hi Karen (assuming this is cousin Karen, right?)
This is a Meme, internet slang for an idea that gets passed around quickly, or something. Those wacky emails stupid people send you – those are memes, albeit crap ones. Here’s a definition. In this case some person, now lost in the mists of the net, came up with the idea of listing “four things” and, having done so, asked four of their friends to do the same, who in turn asked four people, and so on until it reached me.
The Crow Road was also adapted into a TV series which has the rare distinction of being one of the few TV adaptations of books to be as good as, and utterly loyal to, the source material. And I was struggling a bit to think of four TV shows.