16 TONS

Some jobs I have done outside of the poetry and puzzle world:

1 pub quiz writer and presenter
2 greetings card company founder
3 records clerk in bank PEPS department
4 office manager in family management consultancy
5 administrator of children's theatre company
6 beach litter orderly
7 supermarket bailer and shelfstacker
8 admin assistant in Savile Row tailors
9 paper boy
10 picture framer
11 logger in civil service typing office
12 data entry clerk at London insurance firm
13 admin assistant in Scottish brewery
14 theatre reviewer for the TLS
15 guide in a Scottish castle
16 newspaper indexer

(Most of these were teenage or student holiday or temp jobs. 1, 4 and 5 were more long-term. The worst was 12 - thankfully only ten days work.)