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| nomadic |
 Apr 12 2008, 01:40 PM
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QUOTE(exploreamerica @ Apr 12 2008, 01:35 PM) 
I really wanted to ask what a carrot grader is!
So who did you write speeches for? I think speech writers are sp gifted and underappreciated. Do you mind me asking for your biography? LOL!!
Ask away...I wouldn't be bloggin’ if I wasn't somewhat of an exhibitionist. As a former Editor, I will of course dramatise and romanitise my life (I am sure you understand). Answers below: a) A carrot grader is someone who stands in front of a machine full of passing carrots assessing them fit for Marks & Spencers or not. After a couple of hours it is like being on hallucinogenics (allegedly) and the carrots begin to “walk”. Another British term for this is “riddling”. b ) Government people (you see what I did there - deliberately vague and intriguing so you ask more, my friend) |
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| hdh |
Apr 13 2008, 11:58 PM
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QUOTE(nomadic @ Apr 13 2008, 07:40 AM)
a) A carrot grader is someone who stands in front of a machine full of passing carrots assessing them fit for Marks & Spencers or not. After a couple of hours it is like being on hallucinogenics (allegedly) and the carrots begin to “walk”. Another British term for this is “riddling”.
I did this one summer while I was at university (except with peas not carrots). Paid about five times as much as any other casual job I've ever had*, but I hated it at least 10 times as much. Mindbendingly (literally, as nomadic says) boring. Put me off peas for life, too. * Unions, gotta love 'em: 12 hour nightshift 7 days a week = 72 hrs/week at nonstop triple time plus shift allowance. Been a long time since that's been the case in NZ, but t'were good while it lasted.
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| nomadic |
Apr 14 2008, 04:06 AM
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QUOTE(hdh @ Apr 13 2008, 11:58 PM) QUOTE(nomadic @ Apr 13 2008, 07:40 AM)
a) A carrot grader is someone who stands in front of a machine full of passing carrots assessing them fit for Marks & Spencers or not. After a couple of hours it is like being on hallucinogenics (allegedly) and the carrots begin to “walk”. Another British term for this is “riddling”.
I did this one summer while I was at university (except with peas not carrots). Paid about five times as much as any other casual job I've ever had*, but I hated it at least 10 times as much. Mindbendingly (literally, as nomadic says) boring. Put me off peas for life, too. * Unions, gotta love 'em: 12 hour nightshift 7 days a week = 72 hrs/week at nonstop triple time plus shift allowance. Been a long time since that's been the case in NZ, but t'were good while it lasted. Ahhh... I've done green beans and chicory slicing....potatoes on the riddler machine out in the autumn fields (great when you get a soggy rotten one or a rabbits head come up the shoot - very Mad Max), I've picked strawberries and rougued wheat fields......oddly I miss it all now that I am a grown up with a proper job. Well maybe not the grown up bit. |
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| inasia2008 |
Apr 29 2008, 12:30 AM
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This is a fab topic, I just found this! (Yeah I know I bet everyone is thinking, we can't keep her out of anything....)!
Anyway, my jobs have been newspaper round (very short), worked in a florist when I was at school, then Secretary/PA from 16 years old to 35 years old!! Now I am a homemaker!
My best job was working as a PA at ITV plc, the largest tv company in the UK! And in Bahrain it was as PA to the CEO of a local Bahraini Insurance company (very nice, very easy job and tax free)!
Have to go back to London and find work again now, would like to do something different though, but not sure what, that still gives me time to spend with Alex (my son)! I would like to work from home though.... and write books!
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