Left school and got a job as an office junior with a stockbroker and made it to the market floor after passing some exams. That could have been an amazing career but...
I went to work for the MoD cos there might be planes involved and there was but grateful for the astronomy degree I achieved that they paid for and fcked off home cos I didn't want to work with nukes anymore. So what to do then?
No idea but had some dead end jobs in shops and supermarkets while I got better at playing music and wow, suddenly I'm at the Albert Hall and never looked back as far as music was concerned. Tours, TV, radio, session work, I still do it but sorted an IT career cos I love doing that and it's more of a hobby than a job and always will be. Two Plan B's that failed but what the hell I could afford to indulge.
In between over the past thirty years I've worked on building sites, in pubs, been a bouncer, cleaned toilets, coached students and done just about done anything that would pay the bills.
So, as I've alluded to in a previous post had I been born a few years later the chances are I wouldn't have done much of this because the opportunities just wouldn't have been there.
Where next? Who knows but I have a wealth of experience and maybe just maybe I'll have an edge and have a decent life left.
Kids nowadays? God help them.
I went to work for the MoD cos there might be planes involved and there was but grateful for the astronomy degree I achieved that they paid for and fcked off home cos I didn't want to work with nukes anymore. So what to do then?
No idea but had some dead end jobs in shops and supermarkets while I got better at playing music and wow, suddenly I'm at the Albert Hall and never looked back as far as music was concerned. Tours, TV, radio, session work, I still do it but sorted an IT career cos I love doing that and it's more of a hobby than a job and always will be. Two Plan B's that failed but what the hell I could afford to indulge.
In between over the past thirty years I've worked on building sites, in pubs, been a bouncer, cleaned toilets, coached students and done just about done anything that would pay the bills.
So, as I've alluded to in a previous post had I been born a few years later the chances are I wouldn't have done much of this because the opportunities just wouldn't have been there.
Where next? Who knows but I have a wealth of experience and maybe just maybe I'll have an edge and have a decent life left.
Kids nowadays? God help them.
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