[Bill Douglas]

I was a private school boy, but our family didn't have any money (not after paying school fees) and all the kids I knew were quite different. My holiday jobs were age 10 and 11 every holiday working in a bacon factory - I loved it and the money was excellent. My friend Michael's dad was the boss. 12 to 13 doing cleaning jobs in the weekends and holdays - bought an old Francis Barnet motorbike for 50 bucks. I remmember age 15 a school holday job working in a button factory. Some other boys and I got the last week off on full pay - about 30 years later I realised we had been fired. By 16 I was riding a triumph 650 to school. All the kids I knew were the same and we have learned "how much life you need to exchange for a car/bike" by working. Plus we all seem to have done well in life after this lesson.