The Pre Game

Before nu desine I had a diverse selection of occupations.

These include:

  • A Used Furniture Shop – Needing cash as a recent graduate to cover my travel needs I worked at a furniture shop delivering and assembling furniture.
  • Painter/Decorator – My first business! I won contracts from landlords and I employed friends to help me paint student houses over the summer holidays.
  • A Flour Mill – Here I was continually sweeping and dusting grain and flour on every floor of the silo. It was mind numbing but paid well if I worked inconvenient hours.
  • Ski Resort Cleaner – Snowboarding around a mountain in Canada ensuring the bins/toilets etc of the various restaurants and cafes were in check. I loved this job, I got to snowboard for around 4 hours a day.
  • A Steel Works – I was a manual labourer in a steel works, hammering, spot-welding, and polishing steel. My arms got really strong and I got good at assembling on production lines.
  • An IT Department – I temped in an IT department for a large PLC. It was boring as hell.