I worked in a pub while I was going to school. I was 17 back then. I don't know how I made it, but I got hired. First of all, I didn't have any experience at all. Second, I lied that I was 18. It was good because I could work a lot of hours over the weekend and at nights while studying during the day. Since leaving in 2003, I have been back there (for a beer, …
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…how much he has spent. Going to the pub for these people 'do'. The publican is like their pimp: sending them out to work every day, where they make money that they gladly hand over to him at the end of the day. The work suited me well but I'm glad I don't work there any more. I'm even more glad I'm not Joe the 'could have been if he didn't blow it on beer'.