Your First Job

SwiftFox · February 23

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

michael57 · February 23

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

SheffieldMan1976 · February 23

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 · February 23

My first job was checking tickets at a theatre ☺️ loved it!

How long did you stay in the RAF @SwiftFox?

rubin16 · February 23

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 · February 23

13!..15 when I started Mike

michael57 · February 23

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Haha 60 odd now when mum and dad croak it 😅

JessieJ · February 23

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

onmylonesome · February 23

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

SwiftFox · February 23

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

Littlefatfriend · February 23

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.

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bookrabbit · February 23

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 · February 23

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 · February 23

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 · February 23

Trained as hairdresser in 1984 apprenticeship. It was the time when Thatcher set up YTS and was paid £25 for a 40 hrs week. I didn't care. It was the happiest year of my work life.

Biblioklept · February 23

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 · February 23

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!

Chris75_ · February 23

If we are including paper rounds, I started them at 12yo. Morning and evening, Monday to Saturday, only morning on a Sunday.

My mum used to make me go to church afterwards on Sunday. There was no way to drag out a paper round until after 10:00!

Santosha12 · February 23

I was an office junior at a solicitors in King Street, Manchester. Got paid £23.00 a week; £3.00 for my bus pass, I think £5.00 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 😍.

Santosha12 · February 23

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1104137#Comment_1104137

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

Rosie_Scope · February 23

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1104267#Comment_1104267

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 😂

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