Shit Jobs I Have Had / How to be a Writer
1994: Waitress at Plas Hafod Restaurant
1995: Checkout Girl at Tesco's Supermarket
Props Maker at Theatr Clwyd
Wardrobe bitch at Theatr Clwyd
1996: Waitress at St David's Hotel and Restaurant
1997: Bartender at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge
Waitress at New Hall (my Cambridge college)
Bartender at The Castle Inn
1999: Waitress, Grosvenor Hotel and restaurant, Chester
2000: English Teacher in Argentina
2001: Ladies Leisurewear Sales Advisor at Marks and Spencers (that was my title. Do not mock)
Camp counsellor at some summer camp for Chav kids
2002: Begging on the telephone for King's College, Cambridge
Working behind the bar at King's College, Cambridge
Sandwich Maker at O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bar
Ticket Person at the Arts Cinema, Cambridge
Chef at Le Vieux Logis, Alpe D'huez
2003 Private Chef/ Deckhand / Stewardess on Yachts for Astronomically rich people - including our very own Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump. She didn't like carbs or paying her staff.
Boats worked on: MY Kirsty Mary, SY INXS, MY Polar Star, SY La Bella, SY Sea Hawk, SY Catbird, MY some shit in Cannes, MY Turmoil, MY Sea Jewel
2005 Waitress / Hostess at Ciao! Restaurant on Spring Street, NYC
Watching shit TV for some product placement job on Madison Avenue
Working in a celebrity staffing agency providing brown people to white people to be humiliated for minimum wage
Cocktail Waitress at Flashdancers stripclub, NYC
'Dancer' at Flashdancers, Private Eye and New York Dolls stripclubs, NYC
Freelance writer for The Village Voice
'Dancer' at Lace Stripclub
'Dancer' at Scores West, NYC
2006 'Dancer' at VIP, NYC
2007 Wrote my book, and freelanced for The Guardian, The Observer etc
Editorial Assistant at Yale University Press. They fired my ass when they found out I used to be a stripper.
Yoga Teacher NYC / London / India
2008 Brief, unfortunate stint at Cheetah's in Silverlake, LA
Wrote two spec scripts that got me an agent
2009 Freelancing and being broke, dog walking for monies, did a few script rewrites
2010 Screenwriting, playwriting and other writing for realz. Involves being patronized and humiliated sometimes, and mixing with lovely people othertimes.
Places worked in: France (Antibes, Cannes, Nice), Monaco, Italy (Portofino), Gibraltar, Tenerife, Palma (Spain), Tobago, Trinidad, St Maarten, St Thomas, Grenada, St Lucia, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Tobago Cays, Mustique, Florida, St Vincent, Anguilla, Aruba, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Dominican Republic, St Barts, BVI's, India, Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Argentina.
Been to Kenya, Tanzania, Cyprus, Uruguay, Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece and Paraguay too. Oh and Tibet (China).
You too, can have this much success if you get a first in English Literature from Cambridge University and manage never to utilize it.
Am still broke, but thanks to the kind people who sent me cash. I still need some more squids but am feeling generally - well, actually I'm in a foul mood. But that's because I'm on the 'being patronized' phase of my job at the moment. But thanks xo
1995: Checkout Girl at Tesco's Supermarket
Props Maker at Theatr Clwyd
Wardrobe bitch at Theatr Clwyd
1996: Waitress at St David's Hotel and Restaurant
1997: Bartender at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge
Waitress at New Hall (my Cambridge college)
Bartender at The Castle Inn
1999: Waitress, Grosvenor Hotel and restaurant, Chester
2000: English Teacher in Argentina
2001: Ladies Leisurewear Sales Advisor at Marks and Spencers (that was my title. Do not mock)
Camp counsellor at some summer camp for Chav kids
2002: Begging on the telephone for King's College, Cambridge
Working behind the bar at King's College, Cambridge
Sandwich Maker at O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bar
Ticket Person at the Arts Cinema, Cambridge
Chef at Le Vieux Logis, Alpe D'huez
2003 Private Chef/ Deckhand / Stewardess on Yachts for Astronomically rich people - including our very own Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump. She didn't like carbs or paying her staff.
Boats worked on: MY Kirsty Mary, SY INXS, MY Polar Star, SY La Bella, SY Sea Hawk, SY Catbird, MY some shit in Cannes, MY Turmoil, MY Sea Jewel
2005 Waitress / Hostess at Ciao! Restaurant on Spring Street, NYC
Watching shit TV for some product placement job on Madison Avenue
Working in a celebrity staffing agency providing brown people to white people to be humiliated for minimum wage
Cocktail Waitress at Flashdancers stripclub, NYC
'Dancer' at Flashdancers, Private Eye and New York Dolls stripclubs, NYC
Freelance writer for The Village Voice
'Dancer' at Lace Stripclub
'Dancer' at Scores West, NYC
2006 'Dancer' at VIP, NYC
2007 Wrote my book, and freelanced for The Guardian, The Observer etc
Editorial Assistant at Yale University Press. They fired my ass when they found out I used to be a stripper.
Yoga Teacher NYC / London / India
2008 Brief, unfortunate stint at Cheetah's in Silverlake, LA
Wrote two spec scripts that got me an agent
2009 Freelancing and being broke, dog walking for monies, did a few script rewrites
2010 Screenwriting, playwriting and other writing for realz. Involves being patronized and humiliated sometimes, and mixing with lovely people othertimes.
Places worked in: France (Antibes, Cannes, Nice), Monaco, Italy (Portofino), Gibraltar, Tenerife, Palma (Spain), Tobago, Trinidad, St Maarten, St Thomas, Grenada, St Lucia, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Tobago Cays, Mustique, Florida, St Vincent, Anguilla, Aruba, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Dominican Republic, St Barts, BVI's, India, Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Argentina.
Been to Kenya, Tanzania, Cyprus, Uruguay, Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece and Paraguay too. Oh and Tibet (China).
You too, can have this much success if you get a first in English Literature from Cambridge University and manage never to utilize it.
Am still broke, but thanks to the kind people who sent me cash. I still need some more squids but am feeling generally - well, actually I'm in a foul mood. But that's because I'm on the 'being patronized' phase of my job at the moment. But thanks xo
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