My first real job was as a hire counter sales
assistant working in a plant hire company.
Then I moved to work in a prison library and
I used to joke i was the only librarian in
the country with a certificate to change abrasive
wheels.
It certainly raised a few eyebrows amongst
the prisoners the day one of the workmen brought
his still saw and an abrasive wheel to the
library for the wheel to be changed.
While working at the prison, I trained as
a hostage negotiator, and when many years
later I trained as a florist and opened my
own shop, the joke became that I was the only
hostage negotiator trained florist in the
country.