What age did you start working?

JackCork

I was 14 when I got a paper round
21 when I got my first proper job.

Dox

What's the point of the question?

[Deleted User]

15 - Waitressing and doing the dishes on a Sunday think I went from £8 - £12 over time for the day cash in hand - the pub is now an indian restaurant
16 - First job in a longlife dairy factory as Office Junior - salary was £6,200 - the year was 1998 - I was trying to remember the other day what my duties were apart from answering the phone yes, hello! making the tea and coffee, putting stuff on clipboards and writing out the green qc stickers with marker pen!  The MD hated people who didn't speak their mind.  It's now has houses build on what was the site.
17 - Redundancy 
18 - YTS allowed at a district council office in the planning department because I left school thick I qualified to be there, though I loved my supervisor who sat opposite me with big curly hair, a love of marmite sandwiches and just a cheerful chirpy nature, we would often go and look at trees in her old ford sierra  - £50.00 a week and some award of bus fare allowed!    ((still had to work at the pub of a Sunday))
20 - First proper job after a little trouble getting any other job was as hotel Trainee Receptionist live-in - think I was paid just under £4.00 per hour - this job's theme song was ordinary world by Duran, Duran that a song which used to go London Town no idea who the artist was - I remember it use to keep being played on a loop by reception's big bulky music box! I had a 26 year old female general manager who was cool. The out of date era style motel is still going strong although owned by an a one man and his band these days. 

Mrs_Ryan

17 when I got my first paid part time job in John Menzies (it became WH Smith) when I was in there early last month I was talking to a lady who I had worked with when I worked there- some 22 years ago and she still worked there. 

I was 19 when I got my first full time job but that was a summer job on my uni holidays. That was for what was then Orange in North Tyneside. 

First proper permanent full time job- I was 26 and it was for EON in Nottingham. 

Skint_yet_Again

At age 17 I had a paper round and a Saturday job at Poundstretcher for spending money whilst at college taking A levels. After A levels I did an employment training scheme (or whatever they called the scheme after YTS - we got paid more than YTS) for 12 months doing office work. 

Then I moved to the other end of the country away from the miners strike and recession in the north and had my pick of several jobs in the late 80’s in the South. I am still in the same job now. 

comeandgo

 I started paid work at 12 years old.  Living on a farm in the very rural country meant you actually work as soon as you can stand and hold a brush.  I did tell a fib regarding my age for the job, I told them  I was 14 and no checks done.

gettingtheresometime

when I was old enough to learn not to ask stupid pointless questions.

Pennywise

12 paper round
18 proper full time job, on the Monday following leaving school on the Friday
Never been unemployed ever since, not even for a day, always moved from job to job without any break

TELLIT01

When I were a lad I had to start work afore I were born.  Lick the street clean for 25 hours a day and get up afore I went to bed.  Times were 'ard then.

Emmia

Quit school at 16 in the first year of my A'levels to work full time - that was my first job... I've been almost continuously employed since then, apart from a 6 week period at 23 after I left uni. 

Alter_ego

Never really started, I was employed in a nationalised industry.