First Job

[Baz]

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.

[RoddersC4]

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

[wingman]

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!