Spotlighter's occupations?

Olly said:
fraid I can't really go into what I do now

but previous jobs have included:

- stapling tax forms at HM Customs & Excise in Staines (a more pointless urban connurbation no town planning sadist could come up with)
- monitoring shoplifters at Dickins & Jones in Richmond (never was temping so farcical)
- assessing benefits claims at the property valuation division of the Inland Revenue and dealing with complaints like "Dear Mr T Blair cc Inland Revenue, I am writing to complain about the rubbish customer service in your tax office, in particular one Mr Oliver...."
- freelance writing for a Spanish business paper
- teaching English inhouse at Barcelona insurance company during their very long lunch break (a job secured on the back of invented teaching qualifications)
- selling ad space to disinterested Norwegian hotelliers (lasted 3 days)
- working night shifts for media firm in converted warehouse - a true haven for every freak, chain smoker and social misfit on the London labour market - early monday morning pints at The Hope near Smithfields became the stuff of legend

in a nutshell, no real career path, basically one desperately crap job after another. Any ambition well and trully snuffed out of me years ago. Just holding out for the inheritance now...
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Have you ever figured out what makes you happy??
 
my latest thing 'the beach towel clip' went live 1st June and has been all over press and on TV as one of this summers must have gadgets!!
managed to get it into a few retailers and online retailer websites so very exciting really!
won't bore you all so see its website instead www.thebeachtowelclip.com
 
vodka jon said:
my latest thing 'the beach towel clip' went live 1st June and has been all over press and on TV as one of this summers must have gadgets!!
managed to get it into a few retailers and online retailer websites so very exciting really!
won't bore you all so see its website instead www.thebeachtowelclip.com
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That's friggin' brilliant. I like the entrepreneurial spirit.

I had an idea decades ago about retractable-chord headphones. Never got around to making a go of it. They're all over the place nowadays. :confused:
 
Cheers, they were just on the Holiday Show on the Travel Channel on SKY- they are giving them away for a competition on their website!! great exposure!
 
vodka jon said:
my latest thing 'the beach towel clip' went live 1st June and has been all over press and on TV as one of this summers must have gadgets!!
managed to get it into a few retailers and online retailer websites so very exciting really!
won't bore you all so see its website instead www.thebeachtowelclip.com
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like it! good for you.

painted fruit. branded, logos, edible, on apples and the like given out at conferences, board meetings etc. that was my plan. talking 15 years ago here. no one in the bush in birkenhead park i was smoking weed with took me seriously & it never hapened.

btw there is another JDM designs. his home town? San Antonio. I'm assuming this is not you:

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