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Chapter 5

Finding My Way

(1978–1979)

‘ I was making a very strong connection between work

and fun: the harder I worked, the more I earned, the more
fun I had. ’

fter three months at Grand Met, I was starting to get
A bored. Writing out expenses claims was extremely tedious,
but I liked the office, and the canteen, and so I hung around for
nine months until I couldn’t take the boredom any longer. Going
out was the only priority in my life, so I still hadn’t given any
thought to what I might like to do for work. I was only concerned
that it paid well.
I answered an ad in the paper for a ‘trainee interviewer’. I had
no idea what one was or what one did, but I thought it was an
interesting job title so I went along to the interview. As I walked
into the offices of Premier Personnel in Holborn, I couldn’t have
known that I was actually taking the first steps towards a career
that would make me a fortune. Premier was a small recruitment
agency, and I was told the job was basically interviewing

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