In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
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Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.
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I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
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