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Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2017 source ↗
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Chris Hoy
British track cyclist, 1994–2013
Delivering papers in the freezing cold for my granny. I got paid in Panini football stickers, so it wasn’t all bad.
Erin O'Connor
English model
Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.
David Harewood
British actor and presenter
I was a bailiff for half a morning. I couldn’t stand it.
Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.
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