Kim Wilde
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I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
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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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When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.
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