I
WOULD say most of us have worked in the public/ civil service or at the very
least are one degree of separation from someone who has.
Public-service
jobs are so ubiquitous, often we don’t know when we are standing in one.
Literally.
As a teenager I took a self-imposed sabbatical from university and
landed a job in the Gold Coast Sewerage Department. We worked in the trenches, doing
all sorts of things with sewerage pipes. One day they bused a bunch of us to
chip weeds in rectangular concrete ponds containing spent sewage.
