Your First Job

SwiftFox
SwiftFox Online Community Member Posts: 772 Championing

Can you remember your first job after leaving school..Mine was painter and decorator and then joined the R.A.F..loved both.๐Ÿ˜Š

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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 2,461 Championing

    Oh yes 13 and doing 100hrs a week on the farm loved it

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 631 Connected

    My first "Job" was helping collecting stock for Help the Aged way back in May 1995, and even that was a total mess up on the part of the YTS scheme I was on at the time, I was originally supposed to be working in the HTA Charity shop in Hillsborough.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,128 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    My first job was checking tickets at a theatre โ˜บ๏ธ loved it!

    How long did you stay in the RAF @SwiftFox?

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,447 Championing

    My first job technically is when I was 14, I was employed by my own secondary school had to do forms and DBS checks for it and worked during school holidays doing finance, IT and admin jobs. I remember being rich at the end of school holidays.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Online Community Member Posts: 772 Championing

    13!..15 when I started Mike

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 2,461 Championing

    Haha 60 odd now when mum and dad croak it ๐Ÿ˜…

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    Cleaner in mum & dad's pub, I had to start from the bottom up!

  • onmylonesome
    onmylonesome Online Community Member Posts: 618 Empowering

    I think it was called "a runner"? at the daily express.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Online Community Member Posts: 772 Championing

    4 years, unfortunately Ted Heath came in to power and cut all the spending for the forces๐Ÿ˜•but not before I had traveled though, best Job ever beside working at Windsor Safari Park.

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 436 Trailblazing

    I'll have been 13 when I first started doing accountancy in Newcastle throughout the summer holidays.

    Whilst at university I taught maths and English in a school. In our second year at university (1996) some friends and I established the first of two digital marketing companies. At the same time we were organising house parties, music nights in Liverpool nightclubs, and raves all over Wales and the North West.

    ๐Ÿ˜‡

  • bookrabbit
    bookrabbit Online Community Member Posts: 273 Pioneering

    I did a bit of gardening for someone when I was 16 which was the first money I earned. But I had worked pretty hard before that looking after the goats and chickens at home. I got up early and milked the goat and fed the chickens and then cycled miles to take care of my horse every day before school and again afterwards from when I was 13. I loved it:)

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,178 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Mine was at Millie's Cookies. I used to take home a big bag of unsold cookies at the end of each shift, it was heaven!

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,799 Championing

    I used to do a lot of DIY type jobs for relatives and neighbours while I was still at school. But my first employed job was in a small supermarket. Customer facing all day. Hated it.

  • Billiegoat
    Billiegoat Online Community Member Posts: 32 Contributor

    Trained as hairdresser in 1984 apprenticeship. It was the time when Thatcher set up YTS and was paid ยฃ25 for a 40 hrs week. I didn't care. It was the happiest year of my work life.

  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Online Community Member Posts: 638 Trailblazing

    Does a paper round count?? Then helping on a milk round, then working part time in a fish and chip shop in evenings and a greengrocer on a Saturday

  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Online Community Member Posts: 638 Trailblazing

    Just realised you said after leaving school, mine was a teaching assistant in the week and in a shoe shop at weekends, with some shifts in a pub some evenings!

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing

    I was an office junior at a solicitors in King Street, Manchester. Got paid ยฃ23.00 a week; ยฃ3.00 for my bus pass, I think ยฃ5.00 to mum for my 'keep' as it was called (1979). Was in Kendal Milne, Bus Stop or Chelsea Girl most Friday lunchtimes looking for clothes to go out in. Lovely, carefree days ๐Ÿ˜.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing

    Oh I bet that was brilliant (if you was able to see all the shows).

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,128 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    It was great! I got to watch quite a few of the shows and have really fond memories of it all. I could never get a handle on which way the seat numbers went, so I just used to mumble and do a generic hand movement to direct people. Not sure I was the best usher there, but at least I had a good time ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing

    Love it! That's very funny ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜‚.