First Job

[Hooper68]

Re: First Job

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

[Paulos]

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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!!

[kazboot]

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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!

[branny]

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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.

[chrisredditch]

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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.

[stuckinthe80's]

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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!

[Richard1978]

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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.

[amethyst]

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My first job was an office junior had all the dirty jobs to do was there 4 months

[culnara]

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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
The place was a sweat factory but I stuck it out for 20 years
left 21st jan 2006. currently working offshore on oil installation's

[MommaMystique]

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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?

[MommaMystique]

Re: First Job

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~*~*~*~*~*~

[Gothic]

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More Cheese Gromit........

Unfortunately never made any Wensleydale, but have made a smashing bit of Cheddar in my time.

[stevef]

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Don't forget the crackers!

[PWC1973]

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

More Cheese Gromit........

[stevef]

Re: First Job

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

Blessed are the cheesemakers