The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163388   Message #3898302
Posted By: Senoufou
09-Jan-18 - 07:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your former odd jobs
Subject: RE: BS: Your former odd jobs
Looking back, the jobs I really enjoyed were those (no matter how lowly) where I had lots of fun and a good laugh with lovely colleagues.
I had a ball with the other kitchen maids at the large dish-washing machines; we got up to all kinds of larks. Similarly, I really liked feeding old ladies/men, bathing patients and making up beds. I particularly enjoyed being sent to scrub out the sluice or sort the linen cupboard.
I got very fond of the three little Swiss children for whom I was a part-time nanny. And I've always adored cleaning, so satisfying and good exercise.
In the end, I spent nearly forty years teaching in various schools in Scotland and Norfolk. Well-paid, and interesting in its way, but it got stressful and fraught with admin towards the end. Ah well.

I wonder what sort of nun I'd have made? A very very naughty one I suspect!!