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Work and play sees the summer away

By Hamish Fraser

Published: September 11 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 11 2006 03:00

As a six year-old I already had career goals different from most of my friends. They wanted to be policemen, firemen, doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a truck driver.

Despite being told this may not be a desirable career - I discovered later in life that business school jargon would label it as "unsexy" - there was no-thing more intriguing to me than to see these guys effortlessly haul tons of material in their big machines.

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