I'm sure there are more but my university days are a haze now. Did I love any of these jobs? I definitely would do a better job of being a grad teaching assistant nowadays but then I think I winged it in a haze of hubris and hangovers and relying on my accent to sound more authoritative than I actually was.
The bar tender job was good the summer I lived with my sister and worked in the bar of a hotel that overlooked the Isle of Wight. It was very social and I learned a lot about small talk and the tips were good.
The library assistant cured me of my fantasy of being a librarian as it was in a dull scientific library but I did learn to use a computer.
Being a postie was definitely the hardest work - carrying a heavy bag and slogging around on foot on grim council estates in the freezing cold.
My favourite was the cinema usherette as it was not hard work except when you had to use your torch and persuade people to move along in rows in crowded cinemas but the uniform was grim (a nylon overall, I think) and selling kia-ora and choc ices in the interval was humiliating.
I shall be copying this within a matter of days.
Someone I know has applied to be a postie except I think they might be called something like a mail delivery agent nowadays. She was previously a project manager.
Posted by: ganching | Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 09:54 AM