Wage Slave

My lifelong quest to escape the daily grind.

I’ve always hated work, and I’ve always been trying to get out of it. Ever since that Saturday job in Saxone shoe shop when I was 14 years old, I’ve been very clear: day jobs are not for me.

“You’d like that sandal in a size six? And this one? And that one too? No, we don’t have that in black.” As a shoe shop assistant, I’d trot into the cupboard only to…