After a career beginning with bookkeeping, going through bar-maiding, television production to welfare work, I am now what the UAC, ever so sweetly, calls a "Non-Recent School Leaver" with only two more subjects to go ... hey, hey!
I wonder if a gilt-edge still speaks with the authoritative voice, brooking no arguments, allowing no disrespect, over-powering dissenting voices in minor keys, that it did in my younger days, in my culture.