Worked part time as a teenager on a farm that had battery hen sheds, sweeping the floors.
Never ate chicken again after that and eventually went full veggie a few years later.
Every time I went in, I`d be rescuing chickens that had fallen...
Working on Joeys weed farm.
Fifteen hour days, a tenner a day, with a fiver a day deducted for board and lodgings.
Me and Eight Albanian lads living in a two man caravan, existing on a diet of tinned tomatoes, chick peas and Makway curry...
Worst was a chicken factory in Holland for two weeks! Really good money but it turned me veggie for 4 years afterwards !
Hardest was a fisherman in Scotland We were out for 5 to 7 days each time with the nets coming in every hour.
Gruelling it...
I lasted 3 days sat in a laboratory counting empty test tubes and placing them in boxes. Some of the people there were loving showing that they could be the quickest to fill a box…. I could feel my life draining away by the second as I slowly...
There’s a big thing about getting youngsters in the trades now governments pushing it etc. All good and well but being self employed in the trades is rough got to find your own work 99% of the time and you get spoken to like dirt at times. Body...