My next-door-neighbour when I lived in Northumberland Heath, Erith.

....and by 'work' , we mean a real job.... with a nominated start & finish time. A boss directing you, paid money, and the chance to get fired if you mess up. And a genuine fear of getting fired. Your employer is not also your dad. Ideally taxpaying.

- Karl Marx, champion of the working-class. Never worked a day in his life. Too busy impregnating the cleaning lady while the wife was shopping at Fortnum & Masons.

- the NEETs of Thanet, Kent.

- Everybody's Great great great grandmother , from the pre-industrial age. Pregnant at 17, not much jobs for ladies who eventually have a dozen kids. Far too busy working to ever hold down a 'real job'. She is likely to have married some bloke significantly older than herself.

- any other women who today go straight from childhood to motherhood, and never pass employment go.

- George iv, the lazy fat Prince Regent who paid somebody else to build the Brighton Pavilion

Also included in the thread, people whose day job was so insignificant as to be almost forgotten. So both Julius Caesar and Stalin may be included because you could argue neither ever answered much to a boss in a job. But Hitler is excluded even though most of his youth was spent as an unemployed artist loser....cos in WWI the army accepted everybody- a paid job with a boss.

Also included : wherein the day-job is hardly a real job at all - more of a hobby. Therefore most professional footballers, artists, painters, musicians.

- So, Messi / Ronaldo

Never employed in a real job. Career-politicians.

- irish PM, Simon Harris

Queen Elizabeth II is not included because of her sterling work with vehicles in WWII, but QEI may be included as she spent much of her youth conjugating verbs in her various languages.

- Jon Venables, and any other scum who went direct from childhood into long-term prison.

- the Tasaday tribe of the Philippines. And all other Hunter-Gatherer types.

- Tyson Fury was tarmacking roads at age 11, but gets included here because a) it was a family business and b) if any eagle uploads his 1992 tax-return i will happily remove his name.

what others ?

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