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Selling double glazing.
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I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
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Kwame Kwei-Armah
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Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
Victoria Derbyshire
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Working in a furniture factory in Warrington when I was 17. It was a summer job, and I had to cover the studs in the back of Chesterfield sofas with leather.
Cressida Cowell
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I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
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Like the froth on top of a hot chocolate.
When I have a to-do list and finish it in the time I intended to.
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