nine-to-five

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"I know for a fact that if I went into a normal nine-to-five job I wouldn't be able to afford my  bills ."

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People are working full-time, working nine-to-five, then having to back it up with back-to-back trainings until 9pm.

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"Fishermen don't have nine-to-five jobs, they don't have lunchtime where they can just pop off their fishing boat and to the GP's office, and so it's really important that we take those services to them," says Sandra Welch, chief executive of the Seafarers Hospital Society, which runs the initiative along with another charity, the Fishermen's Mission.

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His solicitor said Fincham had "returned to a nine-to-five job" and also started boxing again.

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They have since gone their separate ways, with one in his first year at uni and the other working nine-to-five.

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