Trudging Through Yesterday's Britain

By Chris Staverson

"He MUST try harder," was the familiar end-of-year message from the majority of my teachers, whenever my parents got to the bottom of my school reports. Although, apparently, I had the capacity to do well, my laziness was a massive obstacle which prevented me from excelling at school. And the fact that I finished my schooling with just two 'O' levels proves that the teachers were probably right.

The problem is that I hated that bloody school with a passion, and couldn't wait for when I would turn sixteen, to leave the place behind me and get out into the big wide world, where working for a living seemed better than going to college.

Years later I still look back on my school days, and I recall the miserable hours I spent in two different establishments that were both demolished many years ago. My primary school was knocked down, with expensive flats being built on the land. My secondary school was torn up and replaced by a new, more modern model. But even if the buildings are gone, their ghosts still haunt me.

When I eventually started out on the road to employment, in the 1980's, there were opportunites galore, in Britain, for people like me to get a good and steady job. That decade was one of excitement and change, when compared to the 1970's, which weren't the best of times for British people.

And jobs I managed to get, one after the other, even if I didn't really find THE one that I was looking for. Many of my jobs have been underpaid and mind-numbing, and others have been better, but with always built-in complications.

Trudging Through Yesterday's Britain is the true tale of an ordinary, young man's struggle to find peace of mind, and happiness, in his professional and private life, charting the few highs and many lows in search of THAT perfect job. It is a book that relies on the author's exceptional memory of all that happened to him up to the age thirty, in a Britain that was a different, and probably better one, to the Britain we know today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BRZ68D78
• ISBN13: 9798373169028
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"