Relieved to get notification today that the Ministry of Manpower has decided to give me a pass to continue working here in 2026.
After celebrating with a cuppa in SAC I got to thinking about my employment history and its attendant good fortune since 1971. Remarkably I've never not been able to work and earn a wage when necessary since I was 15. I got my first paid job working on a production line in the summer holidays of that year, when the school-leaving age in the UK was 15, making me eligible for factory work, and easily got jobs over weekends and vacations from that time onwards. Oddly enough the only period in which I struggled to get a job was in the summer of 1978 when I was applying for a teaching job, my first, and no school seemed to want me. Lots of failures in interviews and lucky to get taken on at Rawmarsh Comprehensive just ahead of the beginning of the school year in September. Which was a particular relief since without that first month's salary I would have been not just stony broke but worryingly in the red.
Since when I 've never been out of work. Lucky, eh?
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