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Offline Roger Kettle

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Jobs.
« on: January 21, 2009, 09:07:01 PM »
What's the weirdest job you've done? As a kid, I made 10 shillings for being a "tar boy" at a sheep-shearing. Basically, I carried a pot of tar around and dabbed the stuff of any wound that a sheep suffered while being shorn. I also spent two weeks, as a teenager, painting a hydro-electric station on the island of South Uist. Over to you...

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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 09:17:26 PM »
What's the weirdest job you've done? As a kid, I made 10 shillings for being a "tar boy" at a sheep-shearing. Basically, I carried a pot of tar around and dabbed the stuff of any wound that a sheep suffered while being shorn. I also spent two weeks, as a teenager, painting a hydro-electric station on the island of South Uist. Over to you...

Nope! I've had some funny jobs in my time, but I can't beat this.

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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 09:24:20 PM »
MY first job was on a farm cleaning out the pig sty's, after three days you did not notice the smell.
Other people did though.

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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2009, 09:41:20 PM »
My first job was on a youth training scheme in art, design and printing, where I spent more time cleaning the toilets than doing any arty stuff. Not exactly the job I had in mind, I left after a couple of months.

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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2009, 10:06:47 PM »
I think Peter's just beaten Roger to the post!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Jobs.
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2009, 11:20:54 PM »
Paper-boy, Supermarket shelf-stacker, Hotel washer-upper, Ice-cream sales, Fairground operative, Burger bar cook, Postman, Barman, Bus Conductor, Butlins kitchen worker, Butlins waiter, Bakery night-worker, Foundry worker, Canteen worker, Underground limescale cleaner, L.P. pressing-plant worker, Graphic designer, Cartoonist, now starting a new business (authorised to opertate only last week!)... Travel Operator.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 03:57:33 AM »
Paper-boy, Supermarket shelf-stacker, Hotel washer-upper, Ice-cream sales, Fairground operative, Burger bar cook, Postman, Barman, Bus Conductor, Butlins kitchen worker, Butlins waiter, Bakery night-worker, Foundry worker, Canteen worker, Underground limescale cleaner, L.P. pressing-plant worker, Graphic designer, Cartoonist, now starting a new business (authorised to opertate only last week!)... Travel Operator.

This sounds painful; can you get it done on the NHS?

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Re: Jobs.
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 04:58:22 AM »
Great website Nige - even on my dial-up speed (except the video on the main page).
The photos are great and what a good idea to have someone there to speak the language and show you all the best places.
I hope you do really well!

Back to jobs... I remember my first Saturday job was working in a frozen food shop. I got to open 2lb bags of veg and put them in four half pound bags to sell to seniors and single people. It was awful as the bags were always underweight so you would have to take a few peas out of each bag to make it fair.

I had work experiance in British Aerospace in the secretary scheme. I got hardly any money but the reallywasn't that much to do either - it was just a waste of time. It was a lot like the Tetley Tea commercials a world of ancient old wood offices and funny characters.

People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 06:23:12 AM »
Peeps, I think your venture will be a huge success  ;D

Offline The Peepmaster

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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 09:25:43 AM »
Thanks, Malc. I hope so too. The opportunity was screaming out at me the year before last when I was there. There is so much enthusiasm, and it's not a destination much promoted - yet, although some parts are a tropical paradise.

I think we'll start to get busy after the Glasgow Holiday Show next month (where the Phils Embassy is giving us free space on their stand), and once we get freely listed as a supplier on the wowphilippines.co.uk website.

It's taken us from last March to build the website to what it is now, and of course it helps that I've been able to do that myself!

Last summer's traveling around the island was all about making contacts, and I envisage this summer's trip to be just as exhausting.

Diane, although the native language is Tagalog (with numerous dialects), English is widely spoken. Most signage is in English. It is argued that the Philippines is the 3rd largest English speaking nation in the world. (That's what they claim, but it's disputed in various quarters).
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline Roger Kettle

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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 09:44:06 AM »
I wish you every success, Nige, and I envy your energy. By my reckoning, you are currently a property developer, a website-designer, a cartoonist, a travel agent and a karaoke king! All the best, mate!

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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 10:18:44 AM »
Best wishes with your venture Nige. It's a pity my good lady has her heart set on Hawaii for our honeymoon because I like the look of those prices....

Offline The Peepmaster

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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 10:44:34 AM »
I wish you every success, Nige, and I envy your energy. By my reckoning, you are currently a property developer, a website-designer, a cartoonist, a travel agent and a karaoke king! All the best, mate!

Roger, I'm saddened that you chose not to mention poet.


Zesty - there's always next year!
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 10:55:34 AM »
I wish you every success, Nige, and I envy your energy. By my reckoning, you are currently a property developer, a website-designer, a cartoonist, a travel agent and a karaoke king! All the best, mate!

You forgot 'pilchard baiter', Roger!

Malc

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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 11:00:03 AM »
For those of you who are remotely interested, 'tagalog" is pronounced "tag-ARRRR-log", not "tagglelog".