It is natural to feel down about work at the beginning of January. Perhaps you don’t have a job, and if you do, you might hate it. It’s dark in the mornings and dark again when you leave for home; the next holiday is a long way off and you don’t get paid for ages. Pretty miserable all round then. But before you dust down your CV, try to put matters into perspective. Is your job really all that bad? Below are interviews with six people with jobs many may consider to be pretty awful, in which they are asked about the worst things they have to do at work, how much they get paid and whether they enjoy their jobs despite everything. The dog-food taster Philip Wells says the firm uses ‘human-grade freshly prepared raw food’ in its recipes. The job: Tasting dog food to ensure it meets a premium brand’s exacting quality standards. What it involves: Opening sample tins of each freshly…
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New shooting reported in southern Paris and seven arrests made as manhunt for 'heavily armed' Charlie Hebdo attackers continues. Winds and snow to batter UK. Tesco announces turnaround plan. Tesco to close headquarters and 43 stores as 'Drastic Dave' makes mark. Immigrants’ benefits system abuse must be fixed, agrees Merkel. M&S suffers disastrous Christmas First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough. FBI director: N Korea hacked Sony. Mexican police find 11 severed heads. Ched Evans on brink of signing for Oldham after his family put £2m on the table. It's official - the nation's teenagers will study Russell Brand at A Level from September. BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON The bank appointed Douglas Shulman senior executive vice president and global head of client service delivery. BNY Mellon also appointed Dan Kramer executive vice president of client service delivery. Kramer replaces Andrew Bell, who has retired. COWEN GROUP INC The investment management firm appointed Davies Beller and James Kissane managing directors and…
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PM to raise EU reform with Merkel. Eurozone falls into deflation. Oil price crashes (down) through $50 barrier. Britain braces for gale-force winds. UK house prices set to drop in 2015. German leaders slam xenophobia. Women demoted after having a baby. Stockbroker sacked after tweeting 'joke' that he ran over cyclist then drove off. 2015 Leap second: The time blip that could, literally, break the internet. Cornish pasty 'under threat' from transatlantic trade deal. Oil tycoon's ex-wife rejects $1bn cheque because it's 'not enough'. David Cameron says he likes musician, musician says he feels sick. 'Several dead' in gun attack on Paris magazine office. BANCO SANTANDER SA Santander Corporate & Commercial, a part of Banco Santander, appointed Graham McKean head of SME healthcare and Mark Pavis head of corporate healthcare. McKean joins from Lloyds Bank, while Pavis has been part of the Santander corporate healthcare team for the past couple of years, the bank said. KCG Holdings Inc The trading firm appointed Steffen Parratt…
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A&E waiting times 'worst ever', figures reveal. Prince Andrew claims attacked. Stephen Fry confirms he is to marry 27-year-old boyfriend Elliott Spencer. Hello? Dalai Lama to open for Lionel Richie at Glastonbury Arsenal keeper Szczesny fined for smoking in the club showers More than £100 million of luxury cars could be lost on stricken cargo ship. Branch of KFC forced to close after customer films rats causing chaos. No more 'multi-culty', says Boris, everyone in Britain should speak English. CITIGROUP INC Citigroup appointed Shreyas Bordia managing director in its EMEA energy team based in London. Bordia joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was part of the energy team with a primary focus on the E&P and oil field services sectors, Citigroup said in a statement. SOCIETE GENERALE SECURITIES SERVICES The financial services company appointed Christophe Baurand global head of commercial, marketing and liquidity management. Baurand, whose appointment came into effect on Jan. 1, also joined the company's executive committee. FTI CONSULTING INC The business advisory…
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Cameron refuses to rule out Ukip coalition. Cameron: President Obama calls me 'Bro'. North Korea angry at US sanctions. Andrew sex claims denied again. Labour: Tories would kill off NHS. Benefits sanctions leading to suicides. Nigel Farage says Ukip would get rid of foreign NHS workers who 'can't speak English properly'.
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Each year, Time magazine chooses its person of the year. It does not have to be an individual, or even a person. It has been won by the Berlin Wall, Adolf Hitler (1938), but never by an individual woman. This year people thought that might change. Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old girl, who survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman, got over her near-fatal injuries and for advancing her ideals of equality and freedom, became the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, was surely a shoe-in for Time’s award. But no, Time did not select Malala, but instead, a group, which included women, those of whom editor, Nancy Gibbs, said; “They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved, in a war waged with bleach and prayer”; the doctors and nurses who fought Ebola. For decades, Ebola had haunted rural African villages, but 2014 was the year an outbreak became an epidemic, one for which there is no cure. It was powered by the progress that had…
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