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Ideal for: Budding installation artists
Job specifications: One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Plough
through the city garbage, or the muddy banks of the river Thames, to find
scrap metal, outworn clothes, or accidentally misplaced valuables. If you’re
lucky, you’ll find jewellery and coins hidden among the urine and rotting
food. Most of the time, you’re stuck with coal, rope, copper nails—which
won’t make you rich, but could put a little food on the table.
Drawbacks: Rats compete with you for the half-edible scraps, and you’ll
need to brush off the maggots from the rust-encrusted pot you just salvaged.
The stench of garbage clings to your skin and clothes, and if you could
afford soap, you wouldn’t be rummaging through the city’s bowels in the
first place.
Perks: Congratulations, you may just have pioneered the world’s first
recycling movement. The environmentalists love you. They’d give you a medal,
but you have to find it first.
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