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Post by ARENA on Jan 4, 2022 8:45:15 GMT
Most of us are retired now but what jobs did you do?
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Post by toots on Sept 19, 2023 17:30:41 GMT
Secretary
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Post by ARENA on Sept 20, 2023 5:38:58 GMT
I was a trade union leader in Fleet street and then a crossword compiler
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Post by ARENA on Sept 20, 2023 11:25:50 GMT
I once had a job selling knickers but that was a brief career.
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Post by spot on Oct 18, 2023 20:02:09 GMT
My job seems no longer to exist. My job title was analyst programmer. My passport said analyst programmer until they stopped announcing professions. I enjoyed being an analyst programmer. I considered relabeling myself a systems implementer but all it meant was doing what people needed when it finally dawned on them they had no time left to meet a deadline by any sensible route. Goodness knows there were too many jobs like that out there. I took chestnuts out of fires.
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Post by toots on Oct 21, 2023 7:52:17 GMT
I was a trade union leader in Fleet street and then a crossword compiler That must have been stressful but interesting career. Long time ago now but we knew an editor at one of the big papers in Fleet Street. |
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Post by ARENA on Oct 21, 2023 8:16:36 GMT
I was a trade union leader in Fleet street and then a crossword compiler That must have been stressful but interesting career. Long time ago now but we knew an editor at one of the big papers in Fleet Street. I worked for the Daily Mail & Financial Times but freelanced on the other titles. |
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Post by spot on Oct 21, 2023 9:19:25 GMT
That must have been stressful but interesting career. Long time ago now but we knew an editor at one of the big papers in Fleet Street. I worked for the Daily Mail & Financial Times but freelanced on the other titles. I worked just up the hill toward St Pauls for a few years in the 70s so I walked past New Carmelite House quite often. That was the time of David English and his notorious flexible relationship with the truth and the (excuse a rather abusive term) "Spanish" shop-floor battle and the destructive team of Thatcher and Murdoch. Pitmen, dockers, compositors, stock jobbers, whole industries torn away - though I don't think anyone actually liked stock jobbers and I'm pretty certain none of them ever joined a union. |
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Post by toots on Oct 21, 2023 11:05:06 GMT
That must have been stressful but interesting career. Long time ago now but we knew an editor at one of the big papers in Fleet Street. I worked for the Daily Mail & Financial Times but freelanced on the other titles. Did you work for Jack Crossley? |
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Post by ARENA on Oct 21, 2023 12:45:39 GMT
I worked for the Daily Mail & Financial Times but freelanced on the other titles. Did you work for Jack Crossley? Never worked for him but knew him vaguely on the Mail way back. |
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