Guy Martin: Proper Jobs

Guy Martin has never wanted to work in HR or be an IT consultant … and he certainly isn’t interested in the kind of career where there’ll be blue-sky brainstorms in the soft area.  

Guy prefers the kind of work where you know you’ve been grafting – jobs requiring skill, physical effort and guts. Jobs that you live. What Guy calls ‘Proper Jobs’. 

Guy now wants to get stuck in doing some of the most demanding and often dangerous jobs in the UK. Guy will fully immerse himself in his new role and undergo all the essential training, often living with his co-workers, and by doing so, learn more about the people who do these jobs day in, day out.

The proper jobs Guy will be doing include becoming a trawler deckhand (something Grimsby lad Guy is keen to learn more about), getting to grips with nature as a wildlife warden on the remote Calf of Man island, training to become a firefighter and working a full 24-hour shift at Grimsby’s busiest fire station, and becoming part of a dog mountain rescue team working the Cairngorms, one of the UK’s most dangerous mountain ranges.