On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
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Jensen Huang
Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
So after they left, I had to clean all the bathrooms.…you can’t unsee that kind of stuff. But that was my job and so I did it delightfully.
Michael Flatley
American step dancer
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
Ralf Little
English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
Hayley Squires
English actress and playwright
I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.
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View profile →Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.
I cried after I won the Booker.
Disappear by Beyoncé.
When I met my husband, David, in 2006, on Dating Direct.
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