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Wed 07 Jul 2010'I can't imagine being in charge of a buttonhole camera, let alone a gun'
In our continuing series in which ‘Irish Times’writers consider their alternative careers, ARMINTA WALLACEwonders how she would have got on as a private investigator
ONCE UPON A TIME I attended a career-change course, purely in the interests of research. I had been assigned to write a feature about it. Personally, I had no desire for a career change. Apart from journalism the only other jobs I’ve done are private piano teaching, which was hugely demanding and often exasperating, and which had a kind of built-in glass ceiling, because you could only fit in so many children in a week; and substitute teaching in secondary schools. Which gave me migraines.
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