Jaffa82
Academy Prospect
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I'll start. When I was seventeen I worked in a factory in Sutton Fields packing frozen prawns into bags for eight hours a day. It was minus twenty in the freezer room and we had to wear these massive padded suits that made us look like astronauts. My hands were numb for about four months straight. Got paid four quid an hour and thought I was rich.
Before that I did a summer picking litter at East Park which sounds grim but was actually quite relaxing. Just wandering around with a grabber and a bin bag, feeding the ducks on my break, getting a tan. The worst bit was cleaning the toilets near the playground which I will not describe in any detail for the sake of everyone's mental health.
Hull has always been a city of weird and wonderful jobs because of the docks, the factories, and the fishing industry. My mate's dad used to gut fish at a processing plant on St Andrew's Quay and said the smell never left his clothes no matter how many times he washed them. His missus made him change in the garage.
Come on then. What's the strangest job you've had in Hull? Extra points if it no longer exists because the factory closed down
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Before that I did a summer picking litter at East Park which sounds grim but was actually quite relaxing. Just wandering around with a grabber and a bin bag, feeding the ducks on my break, getting a tan. The worst bit was cleaning the toilets near the playground which I will not describe in any detail for the sake of everyone's mental health.
Hull has always been a city of weird and wonderful jobs because of the docks, the factories, and the fishing industry. My mate's dad used to gut fish at a processing plant on St Andrew's Quay and said the smell never left his clothes no matter how many times he washed them. His missus made him change in the garage.
Come on then. What's the strangest job you've had in Hull? Extra points if it no longer exists because the factory closed down
.
