Staff at the Pontypridd dole office mocked a young Tom Jones for his pop ambitions. Dole office staff and careers advisors certainly get a bad press when it comes to predicting future pop success, don't they? You always read singers going "I was told to get a job in an office! I've had the last laugh!". However what you need to remember here is that careers advisors hear kids wanting to be popstars every day of the week. They are, in fact, usually spot on when they suggest that being a popstar might not be the best career move. To balance things out for careers advisors and dole office 'clerks' there need to be some interviews with people in supposedly 'boring' jobs, in which they say "I told them I wanted to be a singer and they just laughed, and to their credit they sort of had a point, I've got a terrible singing voice and this office job suits me just fine".
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