What was your first job?

mustang121

So as the title suggests. I'm curious as to whether any one did any strange and wonderfulfirst ever jobs, or did people just roll through education and straight in to theironly job?

My experience is boring with my first job being a summervacation job during university. Working on a production line that manufactured doors,boy how the summer dragged.

princessdon

Mine is boring - My first PAYE job was a supermarket (aged 15 - shelf stacking) my first career job whilst at Uni was an IT trainer for the NHS - paid a good grade and hours around Uni to pay mortgage.

My first Post Grad job was a teacher.

KiKi

Apart from delivering papers...

My first job was at uni, a Christmas job working in the card shop 'Birthdays'. Then in Summer working in a sandwich shop.

My first proper career job was post-graduation and working in the career I'm still in part-time now.

KiKi

wik

The day I left school I got a summer job in a neighbours pig farm!! I loved it, but my parents didnt love the smell!! we had a downstairs bathroom and I used to climb in the window after work, throw my work clothes out the window and have a shower before I was allowed properly into the house lol

Dunroamin

My first student job was when I was 15 and I worked in the office of Woolworths in Surbiton.

My first non student job was doing telephone reservations with a tour operator.

My first post university job was as a Careers Officer (Adviser).

Treehugged

Stocking shelves at Sainsbury's.

1940sGal

Left school at 16 and went to McDonalds. T'was practically slave labour, any 16 year olds think the nat min wage is low now, should have seen it back then!

annie_d

I started in a small "white goods" shop demonstrating microwave ovens. I was 17 and didn't have a clue!!

Then Elvis Presley died, the owner disappeared in grief and the shop closed!

mustang121

This is interesting. Did anyone ever do a job that just seemed……..so pointless?

During one Christmas Vacation Job, I used to unload metal shipping containers, which contained various stock on European Rectangular pallets and I had to hand ball them to switch them onto a United Kingdom square palletsize, so that the fork lift trucks could put them on the warehouse shelving.The whole process seemed so utterly pointless. They only pallet size they ever received were rectangular, and when things shipped out they didn’t even use pallets so its not like they ever had to conform to Square pallets for customer preference.

Still I was a student, it was only during Christmas holiday and I needed the money, so I just got on with it.

getzls

Went door to door at 15 trying to sell local newspaper. Worked on a farm over two school summer holidays. First school leaving job was working in a mill for three months, boy was that tough.

System

Sales assistant in Home Bargains when i was 16...that job drove me to the brink...