Just got back to the computer. I have read all the posts and there are lots of interesting ones. I notice some didn't say what they do and Eccles made me laugh with part time prostitute.
Senior teacher at an upper school, my only 'proper' job. Lots of holiday and weekend work - cafe's, cake shops, market still, pubs, evening courses for adults, written some educational stuff/teaching materials, DVLAand a stint in the territorial army.
My previous job was as a Sales Assistant in a Sporting Goods Store - finished up on the Footwear Deck, but I covered every department. Currently, I'm caring for my Mum.
30 years in the pits rising from apprentice electrician to Shift Charge Engineer.Terrible conditions and a few bad times but the people I worked with were the best.A few years in the food industry and a few years as an invalid before becoming a pensioner.
Teaching from ESN to GCSE, 5-18 age range. Pick a subject. apart from science. In schools, PRU and Home Tutoring for local authority. Cook in restaurant. Whilst a student, post person, wine waitress, kitchen hand, barmaid, accounts clerk (cringe) jewellery worker's dogsbody, cloakroom worker, Mother's help. Unpaid, set up mother and baby/toddler group.
Retirement can be lonely sometimes.