Original sentence: As a young man he was also a journalist at the Dominion newspaper in Wellington and the Manawatu Times before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to England, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee.Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa where he continued his education.Ball lives with his wife Pam on a four acre rural property in Gisborne, New Zealand.Bed at 8:30 pm and asleep at 9:30 pm.He lists his likes as Greek music and spaghetti with red wine.He was a Junior All Black, NZ trialist, menswear salesman, Dodgem car attendant, freezing worker, amateur farm hand, coin machine operator and school teacher.His day starts at 5 am to 1:30 pm.Sleeps 2 - 3 pm and then spends the rest of the afternoon on farm work as well as when they were young, playing with children Mason, Gareth and Tanya
Edited sentence: As a young man he worked for the Dominion newspaper in Wellington and the Manawatu Times before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to England, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee.Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa.Ball lives with his wife Pam on a rural property in Gisborne, New Zealand