{"id":3121,"date":"2006-11-30T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2006-11-30T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T15:21:00","slug":"various-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"Various jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;ve done in my time. No particular order.<\/p>\n<p>Waiter (in lots of places, some for extended periods of time)<br \/>Barman (ditto, but most memorably in the Chapel, Coggeshall)<br \/>Run a video store.<br \/>Sold suits in Hoopers, Colchester (did that for three months).<br \/>Worked in Argos (Saturday job through Uni)<br \/>Programmed databases (dBase IV, again, 3 months).<br \/>Cleaned industrial spray-paint booths (two weeks &#8211; worst job ever).<br \/>Petrol pump attendant (on and off for several years).<br \/>Civil Servant (four years).<br \/>Customer services dept of Anglian Water (three months).<br \/>Financial dept of Anglian Water (two months)<br \/>Caretaker (janitor) of primary school (one year).<br \/>General building work (on and off through my teens).<br \/>Of course, I&#8217;m now a priest, full time since &#8217;99.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing too exciting, but reasonably diverse. I have certainly met an awful lot of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;ve done in my time. No particular order. Waiter (in lots of places, some for extended periods of time)Barman (ditto, but most memorably in the Chapel, Coggeshall)Run a video store.Sold suits in Hoopers, Colchester (did that for three months).Worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Ol","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}