Big Narstie
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When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
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I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗
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I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
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I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.
David Arquette
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When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
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A professional footballer.
When my dad died this year.
The eradication of poverty would be nice, but at the moment, a double macchiato.
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