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Just taken my baby (aged 16!) to start her first "proper" job at Marks and Spencers (just for the school holidays, then she's back to do her AS levels) and it got me thinking about my first job. Craft Tools in Park Street, Croydon as a shop assistant/power tool repair type person for the princely sum of £15 a week. I left school at 16 before my O levels because my Dad had just died and so I had to start earning. I quite enjoyed the job itself and made some good friends but it wasn't a very happy time as Mum died as well while I was working there so most of my memories are sad. Hope Amelia enjoys M&S more! She's already moaning about the uniform and told me I'm not allowed to set foot in the shop while she's working there!
RoddersC4
27-07-2006, 10:36
had a job after school when I was 15yo back in 1984/85...........4:30pm-6pm Mon-Fri and Sat 9am-1pm,for the princely sum of £0.80p per hour
left school the week before my 16th B/day and started an apprenticeship being a bookbinder for the princely sum of £35per week(well better than the £27p/w YTS's were on).......still managed to buy 2 Albums a week and get smashed every weekend
Bare in mind that i'm nothing like that bloke off The X Factor ..
my first job was in a chicken factory! £5.25 for four hours work in 1992 when I was fifteen allowed me to live the high life.
Sorry you lost both parents so young wingman, God rest.
My first job was in a pub, pulling pints, cleaning tables, ashtrays, etc. Lasted three weeks, after which I went back to college & tried ( in vain ! ) to make up the lost time before the exams.
Sorry you lost both parents so young wingman, God rest.
Thanks Aidan, I appreciate that, long, long time ago now but still hurts sometimes
SpiralCoolStuff
27-07-2006, 20:09
My first job was in Strix, kettle parts manufacturing factory.Worked there for almost 11 years. Got made redundant, did an office course and am now working in a queenie factory (shellfish) atleats until i get something better.
My first job was in the summer holidays when I was 15 washing and drying dogs in my neighbours poodle parlour - I loved it.
apart from endless paper rounds my 1st job was in a local supermarket wen i was 16....i hated it and got sacked after 3 weeks for my attitude!!
my first was in ATS as a tyre fitter which i stayed in for eleven years (through different tyre dealers)
My first job was a paperboy aged about 9 or 10. I remember getting my first pay packet of 50p and promptly spending it on a packet of jelly tots and some other sweets in the papershop :)
My first job as a young lad was a Paperboy,I had three rounds one in a morning one of an evening and one Sunday round.The morning and Sunday rounds were my favorite because you could always help yourself to a bottle of milk or a bottle of fresh orange.
But when I was about 12/13yrs old I got caugth a daft thing really I stole a bottle of fresh orange of a doorstep and there next door neighbour came out and caught me,as he knew what his neighbours had delivered that morning.:o....
It took me ages to live that down,and having to explain it to my mum and dad was a job in it's self....:eek:
Naughty, naughty.....didn't you think of the poor suckers having to read their paper without a nice glass of orange juice beside them!:D My first job was picking and packing in a warehouse that dispatched chocolates, cakes and other yummy things to big stores. The only problem with that job was that it took me about an hour to cycle there in rain, gales, on a motorway - not much fun, I think that experience put me off work forever.:(
Heather74
19-06-2007, 10:06
My first job, was as a Trainee Hairdresser, 4 days a week in the Salon and ! Day at collage, half way though I knew it was not for me, but stuck to it, and passed all my exams, So I am a fully quantified Hairdresser.Shame I didn't have the confidence to carry on with it.:(
Naughty, naughty.....didn't you think of the poor suckers having to read their paper without a nice glass of orange juice beside them!:D My first job was picking and packing in a warehouse that dispatched chocolates, cakes and other yummy things to big stores. The only problem with that job was that it took me about an hour to cycle there in rain, gales, on a motorway - not much fun, I think that experience put me off work forever.:(
Oh come on stevef you must of scoffed some of those yummy things while working away?:D
Somewhere on here I told you I had wanted to be a Cookery demonstrator but dropped out of college and later became a telephonist, but before that I was still interested in Cookery, so I answered an ad in the local paper for cake decorators at a local bakery. I had visions of learning to Ice wedding and Chirstmas cakes etc.......
I ended up sticking Cherries on top of Bakewells and dredging sugar on apple pies at Champion Bakeries ( now My Kiplin's)
Oh come on stevef you must of scoffed some of those yummy things while working away?:D
Unfortunately not.
Apart from the usual holiday jobs(fruit and potato picking) my first real job was as a draughtsman(apprentice) in an architects office for the princely sum of £400 squid a year(yes a year!!!!) My boss would always tell me how lucky I was as previous apprenices had to pay him for the privilage of working with the firm, seemingly common practice to learn a "profession"
My first proper job was as a cheesemakers assistant, I stayed in the industry for 17 years!!
My first proper job was as a cheesemakers assistant, I stayed in the industry for 17 years!!
Blessed are the cheesemakers:D
My first proper job was as a cheesemakers assistant, I stayed in the industry for 17 years!!
More Cheese Gromit........:D
Don't forget the crackers!:D
More Cheese Gromit........:D
Unfortunately never made any Wensleydale, but have made a smashing bit of Cheddar in my time.:D
MommaMystique
03-07-2007, 08:05
oooh MANX QUEENIES! sorry spiral but its been too long since I had those in a little restaurant down in Douglas. Blowed if I can recall the name of the restaurant but the taste of the garlic soaked queenies........ yumyums!
First job was as a volunteer at the local college for adults with cerebral palsy..... I managed one shift, tipped one guy out of his wheelchair on the street, spilled a bed pan over another... decided to cut and run!
Then as I left school at 16... no 'a' levels allowed as step father insisted I started to pay housekeeping.... started at the local psychiatric hospital on a YTS for £25...... what an education for the young innocent I was! Put me off illegal drugs for life!
Then it was off to my local chemist as a pharmacy assistant for £46 a week... Moved into a granny flat for £25 week rent all inclusive.
19th January 1987 I entered th Royal Albert Hospital in Lancaster as a student RNMH and left there for the sunny Manx shores in 1990 as a Registred Nurse Mental Handicap.... 'learning difficulties' is the pc term for the present.
And now still using the qualification in Brum.
~*~*~*~*~sighs big fluffy thought balloons of one day opening the breast feeding cafe~*~*~*~*~*~
MommaMystique
03-07-2007, 08:21
Spiral......ps the restaurant was Galtons or something like that! is the Seepoy Indian in Douglas still there or have Enviromental Health closed the place down?
left school at christmas 1985, got a job as apprentice welder 21st jan 1996 at a local firm building refrigerated transport
Gray and Adams Ltd. manufacturers of refrigerated trailers and bodies :: Home (http://www.gray-adams.com/)
The place was a sweat factory :( but I stuck it out for 20 years :eek:
left 21st jan 2006. currently working offshore on oil installation's
amethyst
06-09-2009, 13:29
My first job was an office junior had all the dirty jobs to do was there 4 months
Richard1978
06-09-2009, 19:33
My first work experiance was at my local library in september 1993.
At college I had a work placement at a travel company in the same building, I was there about 6 months in 1997, mostly filing paperwork.
My first full time job was for a car insurance company starting on 9/12/1998. I worked there as an admin assistant, it had some good & bad points over the 16 months I was there.
stuckinthe80's
06-09-2009, 21:32
My first job was as a 'saturday boy' in a local hairdressers. I was 14 and it was 1987 and my wage was £3 a day plus bus fair. I must have been mad!
My first real job was on a Y.T.S at Saks in Durham city. It was 1989 and my wage was £29.50 a week plus my travel!
chrisredditch
06-09-2009, 22:07
1978 I worked Sundays for 4 hours at Preedys in Bewdley (Newsagents) and took home £2 (50p p/h)
First Mon to Fri job was an Assurance Clerk for Sun-Life in Solihull.
In 1979 I took home under £200 a month.
In 1980, I left, to join the Royal Navy. :)
I never had a paper round. I was on a waiting list and was first reserve so used to get phoned at ridiculous o'clock some mornings because somebody hadn't turned up. Waited 3 years for my own round and by the time one came up I was already working part time at Tesco whilst I was at college. My first pay packet was £17 for 16 hours in August 1983.
My mum got me a 3 week temporary job at the DHSS (as it was called then) in Luton where she worked as soon as I left school.
I was a bit miffed because I still wanted my school summer hols off with my mates before I looked for a proper job, but I thought I could stand 3 weeks just about!
I ended up staying there for 9 years!
My first job was a Sunday morning paper round, I had 2 jam packed full bags of papers and all their Sunday magazines which I could hardly carry up a huge hill AND knock on all the doors to collect the cash! Then I had to walk all the way back to the shop to take back any papers not delivered and then walk over to the owners house and sit down and count the cash!!
I used to start at about 7.30 and finish around midday and got one measly pound note!!!
I only lasted 7 weeks, the final week my step day came out with me to carry the bags and I ran round with the papers, it still took us all morning and by the end of it he was so exhausted that he told me I wasn't carrying on with it!
I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Ahhhh happy days!!
Hooper68
08-05-2010, 20:04
My first job was on a yts at Baxters butchers in Ormskirk,I hated it and the boss hated me so it lasted about two weeks
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