si
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Introduction | Born in Romford, Essex in 1970, Si grew up with a love of football, films, frolicking and females. After attending three different senior schools, Si decided that it was a waste of time turning up for his GCE exams and bunked off to head for the workplace as a carpet fitter where he found the YTS scheme waiting with no more than twenty-something quid a week and a clip round the ear for cutting carpet ‘very wonky’. Si describes the next ten years of his working life in grim fashion: ‘I worked as a telesales ‘thingy’ (ew), vending machine salesman (spit), insurance clerk (snore), debt collector (ouch), recruitment consultant (I liked that one) and a mortgage broker (I worked for sharks and didn’t last long).’ Things were soon to change drastically in 1996, when Si decided to become a ‘real’ student and study for a B.A. Hons. Theology Degree somewhere outside of Essex, in a strange land called ‘The North’. Things were reportedly so bad ‘oop North’, that Si expected to be living among whippet-racing peasants dressed in shell suits, living off a diet of mushy peas. Oh, and statistically, Northerners tend to have a habit of dying much younger. Simon is currently writing his third book. |