Me Neither - A Memoir
1970s first shoots of the gig economy.
What happens when a Cambridge graduate leaves university with no career plan, an unpaid college bill and a willingness to try almost anything?
In Me Neither, Eamonn Vincent recalls the unpredictable years between 1974 and 1988, when he worked as a milkman, bus conductor, stagehand, theatre doorman, magazine publisher, political organiser and more. Moving between Cambridge, London, the West Highlands, Europe and the United States, he encounters eccentric colleagues, reluctant celebrities, theatrical mishaps, political manoeuvring and the fragile machinery of publishing before the digital age.
With understated humour and a sharp eye for the telling detail, Vincent captures a world of paper files, electric milk floats, Setright ticket machines, smoky pubs, live music and improvised careers. Along the way, he reflects on class, ambition, work, technology, socialism and the strange business of becoming an adult without quite deciding what adulthood should involve.
Part memoir, part social portrait, Me Neither is an affectionate, intelligent account of a restless period—and of the people, places and accidents that give a life its shape.
The route is improvised, the destination uncertain, and the next turn is always waiting.