Perhaps it's just me. When I started playing I was primarily right footed. But I practiced and practiced with my left and after a while folk couldn't...
If we choose from out of work managers, as it seems we are, they won't have an entourage to bring with them, so they may be quite amenable to working...
As a kid, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg on my small transistor radio under the covers when I should have been asleep, then got into John Peel...