I'm Julian Northbrook for doing english dot com.

I was just thinking about what to talk about in today's video, and I thought, I tell you a story, A story of sorts.

How old were you when you left home?

I was 16.

I left home just after my 16th birthday and I went to sleep on the sofa off the parents of one of my classmates and I caught a mo peds license.

You know, there's kind of 50 cc bikes, scooter things that sounds like a sewing machine when you're driving it on.

I went off to look for work in the nearby town, and what I found was a position as a bacon slicer in a factory.

My job was to take big slams of frozen bake and cut plastic off of them.

Put them into a machine, press a button on their watch, them emerge from the other side, sliced on.

I would do that for nine hours a day.

I come from a very, very lower class report.

Background.

Hardship was the norm.

Never having money was just like that was life Onda at the time.

I think that was really just the limit of what I could do.

I left school when I was 16.

Andi I made the decision not to go on to a levels, which is kind of the typical route for British people.

Andi, I think that really waas again.

I think it was the best I could do at the time.

Now many people would say that you know, this kind of work is the lowest of the low working in a factory.

It's it's and it is hard.

Work is a harsh environment.

On those slabs of bacon were heavy.

They were frozen, meaning, you know, 10 minutes in your fingers would just be so painfully cold.

It was unreal, But the worst part of it or really the best part of it, in a sense is the fact that it's, you know, it's menial work.

There's no brain power involved, meaning, you know, time ticks by so so slowly.

It's so boring during that kind of work.

But honestly, I would say that those months really defined the rest of my life, and although I would never want to go back and do that again, I would never want to have not had that experience about makes sense because this is hard as it waas.

They didn't give me time to think.

It gave me time to reflect upon myself on my life what I wanted, what I was gonna do on really come up with a plan, a solution to not spending the rest of my life doing this kind of work.

It provided me the motivation that I needed to actually kick myself up the arse and get on with my life towards I think I've been working there for about seven or eight months.

When I applied for a scholarship at a nearby art college, I got it back.

Combined with the money that I'd save working, there was enough for me to go off, do my thing at Art College, eventually go to university, then to Japan, and the rest is history.

What I'm trying to say here is we all have shit.

Times should experiences in our lives.

You may be in the middle of it now.

It may have been something in the past.

It may be coming for you, but those shit experiences shouldn't be avoided.

There are There is always something to be learned from them.

Something to be taken from that from A It was the fact that I had the time to think, reflect and really doesn't kind of work shootout in my own head.

But it also provided me the motivation that I needed to get on with things, to never, ever find myself in that situation again.

Because now, when things are hard, I think back to that time and I think, Hey, you know what?

They're actually not so bad right now.

I don't want to return to that.

Therefore, I'm gonna make sure that that doesn't happen.

And I think that has being a powerful driver in my life ever since.

You know, there was a long, long time ago, 20 years ago now I heard that I did that work.

But it is still there in the background, influencing everything I do today.

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