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Selling double glazing.
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A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.
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A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.
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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Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
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