CHAPTER 3 Applying for the ‘best job in the world’

With the Afritrex fanfare over and Bre heading back to Canada, I forced myself back into the world of work in order to pay back some of the money I owed Mum and Dad. And given all the pain and heartache Owen had caused me over the last year, his offer of a few days’ work to start me on the road back out of debt was well timed.

It started with ‘that’ advert

Luke also threw me a lifeline with a week of work at his film-location business. On the morning of January 11, 2009, we were driving up the A3 towards Croydon, South London, with his girlfriend Emma. This particular drive is, for me, the epitome of everything that is soul-destroying in life: commuting to London on a Monday morning, with ...

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