What was your first job?

smunchkinp

Gino's Dial a pizza, £1.50 per hour

faerie~spangles

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Savvy_Sue

Typing letters for my mum at home, on a manual typewriter with carbon copies!

Saturday job at the Coop, never again ...

Admin in school and uni holidays, as a switchboard operator and more generally, the most boring was photocopying exam papers in secure conditions.

First job post-Uni was the best, proof-reading for the RNIB! Paid to read all day, heaven! Even if it was full-stops scattered over inch thick heaps of continuous stationery.

The_ICT_Engineer

While in the sixth form in the early eighty's. I was working the weekends running the large model railway in above Poole Aquarium on the Quay. Looking back, I was being paid £2.50 per hour just to play trains.



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w211

Halfords when I was 17- wasn't too bad, stayed there for a while.

Got a small pension, too. Not worth much, only 3% of my pay went in, they contributed 3%. Though hopefully, should be a nice small sum, by the time I'm 65.

StephenM_2

My first job, during the summer between school and university, was in a glue factory. Most of the regular workforce were on their annual holidays, and the job involved cleaning up 12 months worth of congealed muck.

Came home stinking of the stuff.

zildjian

I worked for a record label during my first two years of uni, in which i organised people to hand out flyers for one of their bands. The band is now played on Radio 1 alot.

browneyedbazzi

My first job was watching kids who were in care and at high risk of running away (literally following them everywhere they went to make sure they didn't make a run for it)...I was only 18 when I started and looked young so I was often mistaken for one of the kids. That feature of the job did me good because I've never minded birthdays and getting older etc because I think looking my age is better than being mistaken for a kid!

Hmm71

My first job was working as a kennel maid for £7 a day. Second job was better, living-in at a hotel so all my wages, even though they weren't much were mine to spend as I wished. I'm rather ashamed now that I didn't manage to save more money at that time but I was only 18.

markwilkinson

First job, I was 16, was a Saturday job working in MacDonalds, I think I lasted 4 shifts before refusing to go back. I got myself a great Saturday job after that, working behind a record (remember them?) counter in a supermarket.

Strangest thing I ever did for money was assist digging a grave (it was all above board and legal lol) I think I got £30 for that.