Author Patricia Nicol 明らかにする／漏らすs a 選択 of the best 調書をとる／予約するs on: Holiday 職業s

By Patricia Nicol For The Daily Mail

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Do young people still do holiday and 週末 職業s? I first went to work, at 15, as ‘a 甘いs girl’, making puddings such as knickerbocker glories, at a restaurant.?

My 意向 had been to save up to go Interrailing, but on a starting salary that I 解任する as £1.13, raised to £1.76 an hour, I was barely going to be able to reach the next town.?

Later, I had better-paid Saturday shop 職業s, and would do (不正に) silver service waitressing gigs.?

My university holiday 職業s 含むd waitressing, 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 work, switchboard operating, teaching English as a foreign language to Italian and Greek schoolchildren. And, most bizarrely, dental nursing.?

Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent

British author Patricia Nicol has 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd up a 選択 of the best 調書をとる／予約するs on holiday 職業s 含むing Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen and The Summer 職業 by Lizzy Dent

I learned a good 取引，協定 from these 職業s: that education is not the same as 知能; that, in any workplace, there will always be some 肉親，親類d people 決定するd to?see a young person 後継する, and some who need to be (or will never be) won over.?

In and out of kitchens, pulling pints, carrying serving platters, smiling welcomingly at a company’s 歓迎会 desk, I also learned a wearisome 量 about the 肉親，親類d of male predatory behaviour that in the 1980s and 1990s felt endemic.?

Nina Stibbe’s most 最近の novel, One Day I Shall Astonish The World brought that 時代 支援する to me vividly. It starts in the summer of 1990. Protagonist Susan is a student with a holiday 職業 in a haberdashery shop that 偶発の pregnancy makes a 永久の 役割.?

Another darkly comic novel, ?Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen, is also 始める，決める over a 1990s summer.?

While を待つing their A-level results, Northern Irish カトリック教徒s Maeve, Caroline and Aoife, get work in a shirt-?making factory.?

For working-class protagonist Maeve, the 役割 is a stepping-石／投石する to a uni place in London. But that holiday 職業, まっただ中に a sectarian 全労働人口, is also an education.?

The Summer 職業 by Lizzy Dent, is a fresh romcom 始める，決める at a posh hotel in Scotland. Birdy tells a white 嘘（をつく） to escape it all to a dream 職業. But the truth always outs, doesn’t it?

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