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I don’t know how other people manage their careers, I really don’t. Like my oldest friend, Lissy. She’s always known she wanted to be a lawyer – and now, ta-dah ! She’s a fraud barrister. But I left college with absolutely no clue.

My first job was in estate agency, and I only went into it because I’ve always quite liked looking round houses, plus I met this woman [...] who told me she made so much money, she’d be able to retire when she was forty.

But the minute I started, I hated it. I hated all the other trainee estate agents. I hated saying things like “That's a lovely aspect for a house” [or] “You only have £300,000?" ... God, you complete loser...

So after six months I announced I was changing career and was going to be a photographer instead. It was such a fantastic moment, like in a film or something. My dad lent me the money for a photography course and a camera. I was going to launch this amazing new creative career, and it was going to be the start of my new life...

Except it didn’t quite happen like that. I mean [...], do you have any idea how much a photographer’s assistant gets paid?
Nothing.
It’s nothing.
Which, you know, I wouldn’t have minded if anyone had actually offered me a photographer’s assistant’s job...

I got my first job when I was 15 years old in Florida. It was an after school job at an ice cream store and I worked there for one year...
I did that so I could save money to buy a car.
I worked almost every week-end and 2 or 3 days a week so I had to do all my homework on my 2 days off and all my studying.
I didn’t get to see my friends very much!

Once I turned 16 and I bought a car, I could work a little further away from home, and so I got a job at the mall in a shoe store. I worked there for about 2 years every week-end, probably 20 hours a week.
So I chose to do that instead of doing sports because I had to pay for my car every month.

Then, when I was a Senior in high school, I got a better job at a jewelry store as a sales person and I was able to earn a commission so I made more money.
This meant I didn’t have to work as much. I was able to do a few sports and I enjoyed my senior year a little bit more since I made more money.
I just worked on the weekends and maybe one day a week.

And when I graduated and I went to college, for most of my 4 years there, I worked as a waitress, which is a pretty hard job, pretty exhausting, but I enjoyed it : it allowed me to pay for my apartment because I got a lot more money with the tips I made.
And then I graduated. Yeah

Monday, March 30th.

I started a new life yesterday.

I joined the "Red Flag" crew.

We sailed to America.

In the morning, I raised the sail and I steered the ship.

In the afternoon, I climbed the mast.

In the evening I played cards with the captain.

This is gonna take forever.

It's not gonna be easy.

It's not gonna fly

I knew this was gonna happen.

They're gonna find us.

She's gonna love it.