Watch the film and find out more about Adrian's job as a waste
operations driver in a local council.
"When I was six years old I wanted to be a policeman, when you
see it on telly it all seems quite exciting.
My name is Adrian Bristow. I'm a waste operations
driver/supervisor. Day-to-day I'm mainly out on the road in an HGV
dust cart, collecting people's domestic rubbish.
When I left school my intentions were to join the Royal Air
Force; I got through all the exams but then I failed on the medical
for being underweight. I was a bit, disheartened. I didn't foresee
any future trying to get in there, because no matter how much I
ate, I couldn't put any weight on. Nowadays it's the other
way round!
We then lined up an apprenticeship in car mechanics and I was
offered a position as running a garage as a manager and doing MOTs
there as well.
I'd since split up with a previous partner and I was with a new
partner and we'd been talking about the idea of moving up
north. We had no idea where we were going to go, didn't look
on a map and stick a pin in, we just went north and that was
it. It did take time to find a job; I was unemployed for a
year and a half and then I got a job driving on these dust
carts.
I think the highlight of my life is that I've got seven
children. My oldest boy is hoping to follow my lead in car
mechanics, the ones up in Grimsby, they haven't even thought about
what they want to be when they grow up yet, they're just too busy
trying to make my life hell, I think."