Robert Peston
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Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
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Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
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View profile →Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
Falling in love is like going to the doctor and being told that you need to put on weight. You feel elated.
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
Not winning any literary prizes.
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