Half Corona Cigars & A Bottle of Toluene…

A Job You Could Stick To!

Dominus Owen Markham
7 min readSep 25, 2024

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My days of brush-pushing on the shopping malls were coming to an end, through choice I might add.

Photo by Nguyen Pham on Unsplash

One thing I would like to point out here, given my checkered employment journey so far: Many may think jobs were plentiful back in the ’80s and ’90s. Not so, here is a graph of the unemployment figures in the UK that underpin how difficult it was back then:

Today, the UK is running at around 4% on average.

Anyway, I digress.

A few weeks of diligent scouring of the Job ads turned up a diamond in the rough…well, I hoped so!

“Trainee Shift Chemist”, I know, I know, what you are thinking, hey what is this guy on?

Nothing ventured nothing gained I say!

Now, the location of this company was the other side of town and it was the days of SAE (stamp addressed envelopes) ie send a letter requesting an application form, which they would mail back, complete said form and send it in and wait…

I get itchy feet when I see an opportunity and can’t wait for that process to work…

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Dominus Owen Markham
Dominus Owen Markham

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