| Place | Job | involves | Salary | People | Time
| | | | | | 1983 Scunthorpe
| Kalsons Glass | Saturday job cleaning vans | answering the phone giving quotes making tea £3.50/hr
| u | 2 yrs
| 1984 Scunthorpe
| BSC - Research Dept | Summer Project Mathematical Modelling Exercise
| with PET computer £3.50/hr ? | u | 2 weeks
| 1984 Scunthorpe
| BSC - BOS Plant | Christmas Project Mathematical Modelling Exercise
| £3.50/hr ? | u | 2 weeks
| 1985-89 Scunthorpe
| BSC | Undergraduate Management Trainee | | | 4 years
| 1985
| Training Dept | Metal Bashing | basic electrical, welding, metal work £3.50/hr ? | u | 3 months
| 1986
| Coke Ovens | Engineering, building design, shifts, plant | u | 3 months
| 1987
| HSM | Plant, surveying, plc, contractors | | u | 3 months
| 1987
| BOS | Plant, plc, surveying
| | u | 3 months
| 1988
| Design Dept | plant, writing specifications, dealing with contractors | u | 5 months
| 1988 USA | USA
American Adventure tour |
travel | | Kyong
| 1989 Coventry
| Coventry Poly | Business Survey cold calling, | market research working alone £3.50 hr | | 2 weeks
| 1989 Scunthorpe
| Agency | Electricians Mate in nappy factory
| £3.50 hr | | 2 weeks
| 1989 USA
| BUNAC-programme
| 20 jobs | 3 months
| Philadelphia |
Guinea Pig | Testing Sunscreen | $20 an hour to sit in a jacuzzi .. | nt | .
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Penn-Pirg | Canvasser collecting charity subscriptions | commission | u | 2 days
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Telesales | Selling photocopiers | over the phone commission | u | 1 week
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University of Pennsylvania | Wedding Receptions Cook | Waiter barman $7/hr | nt | 2 months
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Dress Shop | Stock taker stock taking | $5.50/hr | nt | 1 day
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Silver K Fine Arts | Exhibition Assistant Beatles Photos Setting Up/taking down | Host Collecting Tickets Leafleting $7/hr | ? | 2 weeks
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Premack and Associates | Market Researcher Cold calling in person | and over the phone $8/hr | ? | 1 month
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House Removal | labourer | $7/hr | nt | 2 days
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Handy Man | minor demolition | installing electrical sockets $7/hr | nt | 2 days
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Mennen Research Institute | Guinea Pig psychological research | $7/hr | nt | 2 days
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University of Pennsylvania | Guinea Pig Normal subject | in research into schizophrenia, EEG Tests, MRI, PET Scan $350/week | nt | 1 week
| Chicago
Olsten Agency | Filing Clerk filing | $7/hr | nt | 3 days
| Chicago |
Scenary Builder | basic labouring | $7/hr | u | 2 weeks
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Canada Trip | East to West | du | 4 weeks
| Canada (Victoria BC) |
Carnaby Street | Carpet Cleaner cleaning the King of | Afghanistan's palace carpets against carpet beetles £3/hr | u | 1 week
| Seattle |
Agency | labourer setting up marquees | at logging fair $5/hr | nt | 2 days
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Yard Worker | cleaning up someones yard and garden | $7/hr | nt | 2 days
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Democratic Party | Election Observer ensuring ballot boxes | were not tampered with $7/hr | nt | 1 day
| New Zealand | 1 week trip | ntd | 1 week
| Australia - Sydney
| Painting Seller | Cold calling door
| to door selling paintings commission | u | 1 day
| Washer Upper | £3/hr | u | 1 day
| United Plastics | Salesman cold calling
| selling plastics to businesses commission | £150 a week d | 4 months
| CTV1 | TV presenter researching and | co-presenting prog volunteer | MZ | 2 months
| Garden labourer | £3.50 hr | nt | 1 day
| Morgan Gallup | Market Researcher | election poll £4 hour | nt | 4 days | casual The Comedy Store | waiter Place full of drunks yuck | £3.50 hr | yuck | 1 day
| The Wooloomooloo Bay Hotel | Kitchen Assistant salads, cleaning etc | £3.50 hr | yuck | 2 weeks
| Trip | Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand | d | 1990 London
| British Oxygen | Guinea Pig Interviewee helping train managers to interview | nt | 1 day
| ticket buyer | for ticket tout paid to buy | Phantom of the Opera tickets comm | ? | casual
| Mayfair | breakfast chef preparing sandwiches omlettes etc | Saturday/Sun £50 night | u | 3 w/e s
| Dewynters | Merchandise Manager Georgian State Dance | driving merchandise van setting up stall, selling etc £200/week | u | Theatre Tour
| Edinburgh | Kelly Agency ? | Data Entry for TSB Bank | £3.50/hr | nt | 2 weeks
| Kelly Agency | Computer programming For Arthur Anderson | £4/hr | nt | 1 week
| Festival Times | Newspaper Seller in the Fringe Club | comm | nt | 3 weeks
| 1990 Trip | France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco | ntd | Tenerife | Disco | PR Geeting people to come into a disco | £25/ night | d | 2 weeks
| Timeshare | OPC and photographer getting people to visit resort | £150/week | low class | 6 weeks
| 1991 Trip | Mid-East | Turkey ...Egypt -Dahab | df | 1991 Trip | Europe | Sweden, Norway, Finland | df | 1992
South Africa
| Port Elizabeth | Youth Hostel Manager ran the PE Youth Hostel | £70 a week | kept | moving 2 months
| Capetown | started a business in Capetown | selling plastics to businesses | £200/week | nt | 3 months
| Capetown | Cape Ventures | assistant research, computer work | £2/hr | d | casual
| 1992-93
Japan |
bar host | chat with customers in bar | £4/hr | d | 3 months
| English Teacher | set up English Culture course | £15/hr | d | 3 months
| Cooking Teacher | giving a cooking lecture | £15/hr | nt | 1 day
| Guide Trainer | training Tour Guides | £15/hr | nt | 1 day
| Santa Claus | ... | £15/hr | nt | 1 day
| UK | Hepworth Refractories | Bricklayers Labourer 12 hour night shifts | at steel works £40/day | d | 3 weeks
| 1993-94 Trip | Italy, South France etc | ntd | 1993 Hong Kong | English Teacher | teaching at High School | 40 kids ? | nt | 1 day
| TVB etc | movie extra casual work in films | inc Jackie Chan Film £35+ /night | nt | casual
| MTV Sports | Football Watcher researching advertising exposure | £35/day | d | 2 weeks
| Fairground Worker | with Barnum Musical | £35/day | d | 3 weeks
| China | PR | Opening of new store | . | . | 1 day
| Asia Travel | Macau, China, Vietnam, China | df | 1994 Hong Kong | TVB etc | movie extra again £130 to shave head | £130 | nt | casual
| Sandwich round | . | £2.50/hr | nt | casual
| Wax Magazine | Jigsaw Agency PA runner setting up HK Food fair | £40/day | ntd | 1 week
| 1994 USA | Calistoga Springs | Gardener Hippy Community | volunteer | ntd | 1 week
| Sacramento | Removal labourer | $8 hr | 1 day
| Garden Work
| $8-10/hr | casual
| Painter | $8/hr | ntd | casual
| USA travel | Columbus YH | 1994-95 Caribbean | Tobago, Trinidad | fd | 1994 Venezuela | Instituito Britannico | English Teacher
| money making only £1/hr | ntd | 3 months
| 1995 USA(Florida) | Fort Lauderdale | labourer casual work | $8/hr | 2 days
| Malta. |
1995 London
| Frontier Internet Services | computer work answering phone | Technical Support Sales Web Pages d | 5 months
| Lettres UK | Consultant for CD launch | £5/hr | nt | 1 week
| The Science Museum | Demonstrator Internet Exhibition | volunteer | nt | 1 month
| BCTV | conservation work 2 weekends | garden work volunteer | nt | 2 w/e
| Brunei,
| Australia(West) | Donnybrook | Apple Thinning £3.50/hr | d | 2 weeks
| Manjimup | Cauliflower Cutting brocolli, Chinese cabbage etcalso kiwi fruit £4/hr | d | 4 weeks
| Albany | Internet webpage work | £3.50/hr | d | 2 weeks
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| 1996 Singapore | Melange | Exhibition Assistant demo software | £4/hr | d | 2 days
| Art College | Nude Model £12/hr | d | casual
| TV Commercial | extra £4/hr | d | 1 day
| Events Guide | Researcher £4/hr | d | 3 weeks
| Pacific Internet | Internet Trainer £7/hr | d | 3 weeks
| 1996-97
| (London), Germany, | Holland, Belgium 1996 Spain
(Marbella) | Mercury Internet | Web Designer tech support etc | £6.50/hr | d | 6 months
| Self | Internet Consultant training etc | £15/hr | d | casual
| 1997 | Klamar | Web Designer £250/week | d | 3 weeks
| 1997-98
London | The Howard League | web designer volunteer | vol | dnt | 1 week
| IVAC
| web designer volunteer | vol | dnt | 1 day
| 1997-98
London
| Edinburgh
Festival | .
| 1997 Ghana | Internet Consultant | $100 in 3 months ! | - | d | 3 months
| , Togo,
Benin, Bulgaria, | 1998
| Turkey, Bulgaria | Romania, Hungary 1998 Czech Republic | Labourer | Rebuilding an old castle | vol | d | 1 week
| Farm Worker | Milking The Goat | Cutting firewood vol | d | 2 weeks
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1998-9
South America - Brazil | Lecturer | At Various Schools | Teresopolis, Ribeirao Preto, Araraquara, San Carlos, Santarem, Puerto Velho £12/hr | nt | casual
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| Wake-Up | English Teacher Summer Courses | - | d | 3 months
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Bolivia | 1999 Chile | SQM | English Teacher at desert mine | $5 hour | d | 3 months
| Peru, Ecuador | Chile Year 2000 | SQM | English Teacher at desert mine | $23 hour | d | 3 months
| Trip | Argentina, Chile, Arg | Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil df | 2000 Trip
| UK, France and Spain 1000Km long walk | 2000-1 New Zealand | WWOOFing |
volunteer farm | work across NZ vol | 6 months
| Ngahuru Waiora | Work-cleaning the pond, weeding, planting, cooking, cleaning , composting etc .
| vol | willy | 2 weeks
| Otamatea Eco Village in Kaiwaka
| weeding, composting, mulching, cattle fencing | vol | df | 4 days
| Wilderland | work : weeding, harvesting, planting, picking oranges and juicing them, and manning the organic food shop.
| The Clearing House Community Cafe in Coromandel Town, | WWOOFed in the garden and did the website... http://www.oocities.org/clearinghousecafe.
| vol | d | 3 weeks
| Moehau Community in Northern Coromandel.
| weeding, harvesting, planting basil, fence mending, cleaning with Tracey and Duncan | vol | fd | 2 weeks
| Rainbow Valley |
sheep fencing, gorse clearing | vol | fd | 2 weeks
| Riverside Music |
help sedt up festival | vol | f | 3 days
| Tui |
weed, plant, no dig, harvest | orchard mulch, gorse cut vol | df | 1 week
| Chippenham |
weed, clear etc | vol | df | 1 week
| Volco |
My work involved digging potatoes and mulching etc. | vol | veggies | 1 week
| Hamilton |
mainly did more sheep fencing | vol | df | 1 week
| Melbourne, | labourer | shifting 1000 bricks | £40/day | nt | 1 day
| handyman | £30/day | hbal | 3 days
| Guinea Pig | electric shocks | £3.50/hr | d | 7 days
| Leafleteer | only 3 hours | £3/hourd | nt | 1 day
| focus group | talking about food | £20 | d | 3 hrs
| University of Melbourne | computer worker setting up presentation | in Power Point £6/hr | dnt | 2 weeks
| Borderlands | computer consultant data entry, internet | vol | dnt | 1 week
| tree planting | 2 times Yarra Bend Park | vol | dnt | 12 days
| Fiji | Korea | WWOOFer | volunteer on organic farms | vol | 3 months
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ANGSUNG - FARM | peaches, deer, rice | 2 weeks
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Yongdong Farm | grapes, lettuce, chilli pepper | 1 week
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Yong Su Farm | pears | 1 week
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Sunchang Farm | pears, picking, packing, juicing, English classes | 2 weeks
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Sang Dae Chun | battery chickens, woodcutting, English classes etc | 2 weeks
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2002 UK | University Of London | Exhibition Assistant | £60/day | dnt | 1 day
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The Guardian Newspaper | Exhibition Assistant | £40/day | ntd | 3 days
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Harlow | Adecco Agency | Checkout op at Tesco Supermarket | £4.60/hr | ntd | 10 days
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Tesco Supermarket | Nightworker all store sections and warehouse | stacking, facing etc £6/hr | ntdf | 4 weeks
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