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Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
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Louis Theroux
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There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
John Simm
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Working in a very busy bar in the West End when I was trying to pay my way through drama school. I had to dance in a cage in a vest and cycling shorts to Venus by Bananarama, Greased Lightnin’ and Y.M.C.A. every night. It was excruciating.
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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I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
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