worst holiday job..no gap years then..

Waitressing in a Golden Egg 'restaurant' - a sort of Wimpy Bar.

Just so bloody awful!

As a result of this trauma I'm always soooo nice and generous to waiting staff

Buttering bread on a sandwich production line for visitors to Belle Vue Zoo, in Manchester. Next to our group were the people piping cream on to jelly and custard for individual trifles. Under their table were mouse droppings! Ugh!!

Working in a Clairol factory, putting caps on bottles of hair dye - horrible stink of ammonia. I lasted 3 weeks and it's the first and only time I 'clocked-in' for any job!

In the maternity wear department during the sales in Rackhams Birmingham.

On the "pasty belt" in a bakery factory in Devon,

Working in the Returns department of a well-known mail order firm in Manchester, where the old hands took great delight in waving any item of used and soiled underwear (you'd be surprised!) that had been returned under the noses of us lowly holiday employees....