Your first job?

leeCal

hi, just reminiscing. My first job was as a sales assistant in an office supplies shop. Forty hour week for which I was handsomely rewarded £5, that’s 12.5p an hour which in those days was around two shillings and sixpence.
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How about you?

MarkM88

My first paid job was when I was at Uni I worked as a student ambassador and I also held down a part time sales assistant role in a department store. 

wilko

mine mine was a Saturday job on a small dairy farm the pay 10 shillings for a morning’s work 50 pence.

Ami2301

My first paid job was a cashier at a supermarket

calcotti

Pulling pints and serving cocktails to submariners in a NAAFI bar.

chiarieds

My first paid job (Saturday work) was in a fruit & veg shop, then worked as a sales assistant in Binns, then in Pumphreys, where I was paid more than everyone else as I was chief bottle washer, took over from the chef, waited on tables, etc. My first paid work 'proper' was as a physio. Overhearing a conversation with 2 dinner ladies when I was a student, I found they earned more than I would do after 3 & a half years study; never mind, I didn't become a physio because of the pay.

rudolf

Newspaper deliverer

Ross_Alumni

Enjoying reading this thread  

janer1967

First was delivering newspapers every morning 7 days a week and also a weekly free paper 2 nights 

First full time job was on yts scheme in supermarket 39 hour week for £25 a week 

Stayed with them for next 30 years in various roles finishing off as Regional hr manager 

Cress

Mine was a yts in a newsagents..there was no training that went on at all.
We weren't allowed to serve customers or use the till, so basically shoved things on shelves and made tea...there were actually two of us doing this which was ridiculous...

66Mustang

I’ve never had a job

I keep thinking of jobs I maybe could do but there always seems to be a reason I can’t do each one

i.e. I thought I could be an electrician but then I’d have to go into strangers’ houses and drive a van on my own…can’t do that…working in an office - yeah I can do everything there, computers etc, no wait I can’t use the phone or go to meetings

I suppose that’s what benefits are for, but I’d rather not be on them to be perfectly honest

I am still on the look out for that job that my issues don’t prevent me from doing

Sorry to bring the mood of the thread down

OverlyAnxious

My first job was on a small supermarket counter...selling not only groceries but also having to select restricted items like cigarettes & alcohol to people despite having never smoked or drunk in my life!!  And having to ask anyone that looked under 25 for ID...as a scrawny 18 year old myself!    I was also having to pick other 'nickable' items like nappies & baby formula...I had no idea they came in different ages and sizes etc.  Massive learning curve just on the items we sold, let alone the till, the paypoint and the lottery machine!!

It was a real eye-opener though.  I grew up in a small rural village, wasn't 'wealthy' at all but we didn't really see poverty either.  Then I worked there and saw people buying just a pound of electric and gas on cards/keys, homeless people buying a can of beans with begged coppers, people coming in with vouchers for their kids food and going hungry themselves, people getting really upset by their cards being declined on like 5 items and having to put things back until it worked.  One night an elderly female ex-addict & ex 'night worker' came in and called us all c**ts...which was a shock considering I'd never heard older relatives even use the F word!  

Lisatho11987777

My first job was washing dishes in a cafe 

leeCal

Was it for a national charity or a local one @Teddybear12 ?

sounds like fun.

coylygirl

My first job was aged 12 working in a pharmacy cleaning out the tablet and medicine bottles.  Many of them were still half full and I just threw the tablets in the bin.  Oh innocent times!

leeCal

Twelve was young especially in a pharmacy. What were the wages like @coylygirl?

coylygirl

@leeCal I think I got about a fiver a week - a fortune in 1980!

idontlikeliving

@leeCal so you got £5 for 40hrs??? 

leeCal

Yes @idontlikeliving, it was in 1970! ?

idontlikeliving

That crazy, even if it was the 70s. Can’t believe that. Lol @leeCal