1987
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
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Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
I'd just started out in IT, as an operator (IBM 3090/400 and an IBM 3081/KX running MVS as a "preferred guest" under VM, for the geeks out there).
I was on nights, on the night of "the storm" (or, as we northerners knew it, "the bit of a breeze"). We heard all the news reports as we worked overnight.
The next morning, someone on telly said something along the lines of "don't be too smug, those of you in the North, it's headed your way later".
That evening, I walked down Lime Street on my way to work that night's shift. There was a fresh breeze. And that was it.
I bought my first house in 1987, too, a 3-bed semi for less than half of the cost of the extension I'm currently having built.
I was on nights, on the night of "the storm" (or, as we northerners knew it, "the bit of a breeze"). We heard all the news reports as we worked overnight.
The next morning, someone on telly said something along the lines of "don't be too smug, those of you in the North, it's headed your way later".
That evening, I walked down Lime Street on my way to work that night's shift. There was a fresh breeze. And that was it.
I bought my first house in 1987, too, a 3-bed semi for less than half of the cost of the extension I'm currently having built.
classic33
Leg End Member
I watched my job go up in smoke.
@Flick of the Elbow, if you want to clock on there, the doors are to the right. Down five steps outside the building and go through the door one step in front. Door opened to the right. Three steps, followed by 12 steps down, turn right at the foot & eight more steps would have you at the clocking in machine.
@Flick of the Elbow, if you want to clock on there, the doors are to the right. Down five steps outside the building and go through the door one step in front. Door opened to the right. Three steps, followed by 12 steps down, turn right at the foot & eight more steps would have you at the clocking in machine.
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Cheddar George
oober member
- Location
- Location: Location
I started my first proper job, clocked on at Beecham Pharmaceuticals as a Lab Technician.
Been in gainful employment ever since.
Been in gainful employment ever since.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Career break, holiday and destress* time while I look for something else.
*my computer wants to turn this into "distress"
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
Being Coventry born and bred (someone has to be) I remember cycling down empty roads immediately after the match, and into city centre where it was, understandably, crazy!
Was also the year I got married, first time round. 2014 much better year in that regard
Levo-Lon
Guru
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
I was 25; had 5 years service with Strathclyde Polis; lived in a horrible little Barratt flat; was going out with one of the girls from the Greenock office typing pool; had recently given up motorbikes (to be resumed a few years later) and had sold one of these .......
And replaced it with one of these.......
Was riding one of these:
And replaced it with one of these.......
Was riding one of these:
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
Passed my driving test.
Saw Guns and Roses at Hammersmith
Needed a haircut. Badly.
Saw Guns and Roses at Hammersmith
Needed a haircut. Badly.
mark st1
Plastic Manc
- Location
- Leafy Berkshire
This ^^^^ I was 8. Brothers hand me down. Didn’t get a sniff of a new bike till my 11th birthday.
classic33
Leg End Member
Did it get cut?