Aged 15 – pools money collector

Also aged 15 – Saturday job working on a market stall selling ladies clothes

Aged 16 – factory worker 

Aged 18 – guitarist in a professional country and western band

Aged 20 – steeplejack 

Aged 21 – kitchen salesman in Texas Homemade DIY store

Aged 23 – kitchen salesman in B&Q DIY store

Aged 24 – insurance salesman 

Aged 25 – advertising salesman for Evening Gazette newspaper

Aged 27 – car salesman

Aged 28 to 33 – went back to University but worked on Saturdays at Marks and Spencer

Aged 33 – first teaching job teaching maths 

Aged 34 – appointed head of art in Redcar

Aged 44 – part-time teaching job, part-time consultant

Aged 46 – full-time maths teacher

Aged 47 – art teacher 

Aged 51 – full time consultant

Aged 61 – retired 

Total 46 years working, 18 jobs with two spells of unemployment