your past jobs?
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14-16: served icecream and coffee to bored suburban teenagers and pensioners.
16-17: served lobster and wine to bored rich suburban socialites.
18: did the late shift at a dodgy pool hall. willy the small ginger chef from across the road bless him would bring me hash cakes to eat and i'd do my graphic design homework whilst triad gangs stabbed each other out the front.
19: waitressed. customers were assholes. the staff were ace tho. highlights included cleaning cigarette butts out of the mens urinals after a busy sunday night. lots of ecstasy raves after/during work it was the hippy nineties that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it.
20: arrived in london! had £500, no-where to live and didn't know anyone. data entry for a month followed by first job as a photographer yay! only it was doing real estate, £3.75 per hour boo. got fired for being late and generally having a sucky attitude.
21: "desktop publishing" for 6 months, utter arse. Worked as a photographers' assistant in hoxton for 6 months - paid shit and work wasn't very creative. got fired for being "too much of an artiste, when zis is a little factorie, non?"
22: first graphic design job! started in print, they realised quite quickly i had no clue (dammit i shouldn't have skipped all those studio tech classes but graphic design was boring - the illustration lecturers were having spliffs with us and the photography lecturer was also our speed dealer, when youre a teenager your priorities are different) but managed to worm my way into mul-tye-media doing all the shit jobs no-one else wanted to do. company went bankrupt after 3 months (not my fault honest!).
22: touch-screen design. Got made redundant after a year or so because of structural changes blah blah you know what i'm talking about. as soon as i landed on the multimedia bubble it burst.
24: freelanced as a web designer for a year. decided i didn't like freelancing cos you never get to make friends with people.
25: worked as a web designer in a tiny company in the new media ghetto. didn't really like it but the creative director's wife had just been diagnosed with cancer and it would have been really shit for me to leave at the start when i wanted to. she beat her cancer tho yay.
26: got current job at bbc doing interactive tv design. having heaps of fun, even after a year! every project is different from the last which really suits my short attention span. People are nice. Sometimes it gets way too busy. Everyone is an alcoholic.