If you work in television, you can’t really complain about work to other people. One of the reasons is the outdated assumption that everyone on air is paid loads. But the opposite is true – aside from a few people at the top, often the industry gives off the vibe that employees should be paying them for the privilege of being on air. The other reason is that while telly is hard work, at the end of the day we’re hardly going down the mines. Which actually does pay well and is a job more young people seem to aspire to than getting their mug on the TV.
But it‘s too late for me to learn a trade or to drive a big digger, especially when I can’t even reverse-park a Yaris in a…