First Job

[Gothic]

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My first proper job was as a cheesemakers assistant, I stayed in the industry for 17 years!!

[pedro]

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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"

[stevef]

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Oh come on stevef you must of scoffed some of those yummy things while working away?

Unfortunately not.

[joybee]

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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)

[PWC1973]

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Naughty, naughty.....didn't you think of the poor suckers having to read their paper without a nice glass of orange juice beside them! 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?

[Heather74]

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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.

[stevef]

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Naughty, naughty.....didn't you think of the poor suckers having to read their paper without a nice glass of orange juice beside them! 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.

[PWC1973]

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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.....

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....

[HG]

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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

[daubers]

my first was in ATS as a tyre fitter which i stayed in for eleven years (through different tyre dealers)

[scotia]

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!!

[tanas]

My first job was in the summer holidays when I was 15 washing and drying dogs in my neighbours poodle parlour - I loved it.

[SpiralCoolStuff]

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.

[wingman]

Sorry you lost both parents so young wingman, God rest.

Thanks Aidan, I appreciate that, long, long time ago now but still hurts sometimes

[Aidan]

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.