"In the warehouse, I was a lift driver, but a little tiny one," he says.
"I was a fork lift driver," he said, glancing at his watch through welling tears.
Brain's penchant for motorbikes and things mechanical inspired a lift driver at CBC to suggest he apply for pilot training in the recently formed Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
I've done this shift to explore why working behind a bar is the ninth most miserable job in the UK, beaten by happier call centre workers, window cleaners, fork-lift drivers, and almost 300 other jobs, according to a survey published last week.
Crucially her characters are never just victims - from the single mother caught in the poverty trap in Tony Marchant's TV drama Never Never, to the fork-lift driver with a guilty secret in Paul Abbott's Clocking Off.
"Would you like a lift?" the driver asked.
These injunctions are aimed at not only Amazon's fork-lift truck drivers and packagers but also at its executive workforce.
But now the waitresses, yoga instructors, gardeners, repairmen, sales clerks, inventory managers, office workers and lift-truck drivers once thought needed to work at these places are disappearing into the unemployment statistics, as well.
Updated at 5.15pm BST 4.54pm BST Oxfam welcomes IMF warning on economic inequality A fork lift truck driver loads water sanitation equipment at Oxfam's logistics warehouse in Bicester, England.
"The crowd lifts British drivers, they support all British drivers and it is up those drivers to translate that into a bit of speed and commitment in the car and I always found it worked for me".
When it's time for a fill-up (regular unleaded is fine), you have to lift the driver's seat on most models to get at the gas tank.
