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Discussion on: What jobs did you hold before you got into software?

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David Wickes
  • Plastics recycling
  • Cannery (night shifts)
  • Construction site security (night shifts)
  • Furniture and art print salesman
  • Student accommodation warden
  • "Musical" "Theatre" "Actor"
  • University library shhh-er (genuinely paid to walk around going shhhh)
  • Careers advisor (!!!!)
  • Library assistant (sometimes on the mobile library van!)
  • Copy Writer
  • Children's furniture salesman
  • Private Tutor (English, History, Maths, Religious Studies... you name it)
  • Typist
  • Proof reader
  • worked the door for a burlesque show a few times
  • Marketing Executive

... and much like Ben it was the marketing that finally made me change tac...