Think your first job was embarrassing? At least it wasn't caught on camera...

Had a shameful job in a former life? Get over it. As Caroline Delaney points out, actors and directors have mortifying CVs too - but theirs will live forever on YouTube
Think your first job was embarrassing? At least it wasn't caught on camera...

Summer jobs, part-time work and ‘starter’ jobs — who hasn’t pulled pints, scooped ice-cream, or cleaned a row of loos while on hols from college or while starting out in their working life? Even if those jobs have dropped down — or right off — your CV, there’s usually no shame in having done the hard slog to get to where you are today.

Not unless you’re a celeb who now wants to be associated with more important subjects, maybe. Film director, Ken Loach, recently confessed he’s mortified at having made a McDonald’s ad in 1990.

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