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What is the worst job you have done?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I started out, people thought I was going to be a flash in the pan, but I’m still working.
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Being able to communicate with people all over the world through my music.
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Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
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To be getting paid for doing something I love.
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I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
I decided I wanted a red convertible Jaguar, because I thought I would look the bee’s knees in it. The first time I drove it with the top down, it scared the shit out of me. After that, I only bought “mom” cars.
When my kids were young enough for me to carry them both, one on each hip. I miss walking in the door and them flinging themselves at me.
A cafeteria in Glasgow where the manager was horrible. I walked out and got a great job in a betting shop.
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