Ambrus had a job as the janitor and unpaid third-string goalie for Hungary's most successful hockey team.

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He got the job and has since moved up to a nighttime janitor position, the lone man supervising school buildings in the evenings.

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Chris, estranged from his family and his former self, works as a night janitor in a bank and falls into the clutches of a vicious high-school acquaintance (Matthew Goode) who has always envied him and now wants to use him to knock over the bank.

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In 1964, they moved to Iowa City, where Sam did graduate work in fine arts at the University of Iowa, painting during the day and working as a janitor at night.

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In one of them, Raffaele Costa, a former government minister, tells the story of a young school janitor who found the job too arduous after 11 months and had, by the age of 47, collected 247m lire in pension payments.

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Here are a few things you may not associate with the rich and famous: working as a janitor.

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When I was asked to get the janitor, I looked all over the school and reported back to the teacher that I could not find it.

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Kevin works as a janitor and is responsible for cleaning locker rooms, setting up parties and cleaning the windows around the swimming pool.

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Randy White goes there every day and learns how to fight Jah-Kwo-Ton style which nobody else in America knows except the janitor.

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