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'I worked in horror films. Now I'm an undertaker': arts workers who had to find new jobs

by Kate Hutchinson

A DJ turned shaman, a lighting designer turned railwayman, a dancer turned gayrobicist … as the government causes fury with a ballerina job ad, we meet workers forced to retrain due to Covid Last week, Rishi Sunak's misreported comment that people in the arts should consider retraining rightly caused widespread uproar. He has since clarified that he had meant across employment generally, though a government ad from…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:24pm on October 13, 2020