I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
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I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
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A temp job at BT. I still have nightmares about ADSL lines. I still don’t know what one is. I would find myself on national conference calls being questioned about ADSL lines and told that the problem was in London. I would try not to breathe so they would forget I was there.
Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
As a wonderful husband and a great father, and somebody who inspired others to pursue their own dreams, like Fred Astaire inspired me.
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