Has this been done,your first job?

[Accy cyclist]

Painter and decorator apprentice and i hated it!

 

[martint235]

Tape monkey at a carpet factory. I had to load and change the backup tapes on an old mainframe computer. I knew each tape took 2 hours to run so spent most of my working day playing pool against the security guard. £75 for 5 hours a day starting at 5pm. I thought it the perfect job as I could get to my local (which had a dubious view of licensing hours) every night and not have to worry about waking up until lunchtime.

The company moved to Manchester and didn't offer to take me with them. I think it was something to do with my once logging the system terminal out to see what would happen

 

[Aperitif]

Builders labourer - for a friend of mine. £40 per week less tax etc at that time, which gave me £29/10/0...rising to £34 because I was so good. One of the last pay increases in my life!

Mart - your job sounded well paid and cushy, with loads of time to faff around - ideal training for a job in the Civil Service! The only difference being that if you 'switched off' now - you'd probably get an extra week's holiday for effort.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

When I was 15 I spent the summer working on a building site for a mate of my dad's. Bought an electric guitar, still got it!

 

[PaulB]

Grill chef in a steak house. I had two famous people (they weren't famous at the time) who waitressed for me. One became Alice Nutter of the pop combo Chumbawamba and the other I'm not prepared to reveal.

 

[TheDoctor]

Paper round for the princely sum of £2.50 a week.
My first real job was as a care worker.Fun in parts, harrowing in others...

 

[martint235]

Mart - your job sounded well paid and cushy, with loads of time to faff around

It was. I've missed that job ever since. I wonder if the monotony would have got to me by now, I doubt it, after all the Kindle has now been invented

 

[Durian]

I worked for a wholesaler who distributed bikes, mainly Raleigh, and bike spares to many cycle shops all over the South East of England. R.M. Roper and Co. Erith, Kent.

 

[MontyVeda]

Milk-lad. Four mornings a week from 4.30-8am, £2 a day. Having £8 quid a week was great. Loosing 4 hours in bed was crap. Bed won after a couple of months.

Post school it was a YTS at the local bus depot, playing with spanners and grease. £27.50 a week.

 

[Saddle bum]

After a Saturday job in a builders, my first full time job was a MoD Engineering Apprentice.

It set me up for life as a Professional Engineer and influenced the way I think even to this day.

(It's the reason my bikes are always clean and working perfectly, whilst I am getting older and wearing out).

 

[Sandra6]

I worked in Don Millers bakery while I was in the fifth year at school. I hated it there.

 

[Bobario]

Joined the Army age 16 as a junior soldier. It was all I'd ever wanted to do when I was at school, but I didnt like it. It certainly wasnt what I expected it to be like so I got out at the first opportunity age 19 or 20. I've spent most of the rest of my life regretting leaving, even though I tried to get back in via the TA age 32. It still wasnt what I expected and I still didnt like it, but I still regret not making a career of it.

 

[Bigsharn]

In order:
Paper boy (at a pay level so low it wasn't taxable)
Student
Street canvasser (at a pay level so low it wasn't taxable)
Voluntary retail work to get experience
Retail work (at a pay level so low it isn't taxable)

 

[Hitchington]

Selling flowers beside the A41 in Watford. Grim.

 

[Maz]

Apart from doing a paper-round, first job was a summer job in the USA.
I was a furniture removal man working in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Hard physical work but very enjoyable getting out and about.