Pick Me Up! Special

NICE HOOTERS

Carrying another load of dirty plates back to the kitchen, I sighed.

This wasn’t the life that I wanted for myself.

At 19, I was working as a waitress, doing long shifts for a measly £6 an hour.

The evening work meant I didn’t have much of a social life and didn’t get to see my friends as often as I would have liked.

I loved travelling but the poor pay and lack of holiday stopped me going on trips.

And by summer 2020, I’d had enough of it.

But what could I do instead?

Scrolling through articles on my phone, I kept noticing

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