Simone Biles
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Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
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When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
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I worked on a trawler and I was seasick the whole time.
I’ve enjoyed every single job, including working at my dad’s chicken shop selling potato gems (fried potato circles) to the surfer dudes.
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I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
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Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Every time I let my wife drive.
Another One Bites The Dust.
On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Every job I don’t get.
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