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Jobs Writers Do When They're Not Writing - Barman

So I worked a little job as a barman. In Scotland. In winter.

The good news is that they played the current music of the time, and you’d be surprised how much ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’ grows on you after the 58th listen, and how, if you block your ears, Lou Bega's ‘Mambo No. 5' is pretty much ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' but with more trumpet…

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Jobs Writers Do When They're Not Writing: Statistics Wrangler
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Jobs Writers Do When They're Not Writing: Statistics Wrangler

It's 9.23, and Andrew Edgar Wiseman the Third (not his real name) is freaking out.

He's had seven cups of coffee, on account of the regular coffee drinking competitions we undertake to break up the boredom of working at a place where even the lifts sleep half the day. As a statistics wrangler, our job, ironically, is not to wrangle statistics (they leave that to people with degrees in that area) but rather, to ring up people who haven't given us their statistics, and say, 'When do you think you can give us your statistics?' before they hang up on us, and we say, 'Ah, well...'

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