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Mum found work as an occupational therapist, but Dad decided to give up boilermaking and try something different.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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In these days literature is just as much a trade as boilermaking: it has its tools and its rules; and if one likes his occupation, he will naturally make better stories -- or boilers.
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett
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I forget where boilermaking had gone to, or where he supposed it had gone to; but he added some resigned information on that head, coupled with an expression of his belief that it was never coming back.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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The Training of the Unemployed Project had so far registered 774 trainees who were receiving tuition in fields such as plumbing, boilermaking, welding, electrical and mechanics, he said in Johannesburg.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Condren did a two-and-a-half year apprenticeship in boilermaking in Adelaide but threw it in when his brother Kelvin was jailed for the 1984 bashing murder of a Mount Isa woman.
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She is currently working on a literary collection of poetry and a Folk Opera about her boilermaking work called Suitcase Local with musicians Andreas Kahre, Alex Varty and Leah Hokanson.
GotPoetry.com News 2008
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