Raw broccoli slaw with spicy Asian dressing. Photo / Annabel Langbein Media When I was 20, I got a job working at Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was juggling about four jobs at the time, including running a bunch of possum trapping lines, and a skin tacking business, in an attempt to pay the mortgage on the house I had purchased with my then boyfriend, support his four young children and cover his big-ticket booze habit. Love, as they say, is blind.