What was your first Job?

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#1 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:35 pm

Mine was evicerating chickens

Not exactly earthshatteringly technical, shove yer fingers down the back of the chicken's neck, pull out it's innards.

For some reason I sacked that and joined the Army.. Dunno which was worse really..

Syltiz · #2 Post by **Syltiz** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:45 pm

Part-time: Filling envelopes for a Doctor's practice when I was 14. I was doing about 200 a week

Take invoice, fold along the dotted lines, insert into envelope, stick postage stamp on and go go post.

Full-time: The most hated in the finance world.... a financial compliance auditor!

D-Rider · #3 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:53 pm

Well, if we're not including shelf stacking at Waitrose on Friday night's and Saturdays when I was at school, I guess my first job was:

Motorcycle Dispatch Rider

This lasted all of 1 week. It was for a new firm just starting up in Reading. Unfortunately my Honda CB175 broke down just as I was to start this job and I had to borrow a C70 off of my employers to do the job while I repaired my bike.
As I said, I left after just 1 week because I was offered a job working for a bank and I had the view that this would be a better job. Didn't take me long to realise that banking is one of the most boring jobs on God's earth ..... but it took me 5 years to escape from it!

DavShill · #4 Post by **DavShill** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:35 pm

Driving a tractor at Birds Eye in Hull during the pea season. 12 hour days 7 days a week alternate nights and days. Saved up enought top buy my first CB250.

paddyz1 · #5 Post by **paddyz1** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:37 pm

Started in a small car garage as a trainee mechanic. Lasted nine months because a higher paid job came along (£15 to be exact) I upgraded to filling 5 gallon drums with cooking oil....All day, every day

Aladinsaneuk · #6 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:39 pm

gigalo

had to give it up as I got no work :(

Falcopops · #7 Post by **Falcopops** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:49 pm

vetinary surgeons assistant.

Sounds more glam than it was I spent a lot of time making tea and cleaning up dog shit.

Samray · #8 Post by **Samray** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:57 pm

Working in a steakhouse while at college.

Payday was the best night ... taking his earnings off the Portugese chef at cards, after he'd cleaned out the Spanish waiters.

fastasfcuk · #9 Post by **fastasfcuk** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:08 pm

apprentice bookbinder for a year, sad or what. 15 yrs down the mine,best years of my working life and finally a mechanic.my best jobs riding the falco.

Myrkk · #10 Post by **Myrkk** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:33 pm

veterinary nurse............ funnily enough I've just gone back to it 'cause the wages have improved....... now working in an orthopaedic referral centre

bigun · #11 Post by **bigun** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:53 pm

Shop assistant in blockbuster (free videos/dvds was excellent!) Then i was a bouncer at a few bars in Newcastle while at uni. Now a chartered surveyor. Thinking about going back on the doors one night a week tho, been offered £100 cash in hand for a thurs night 7pm-12am. V tempting!

Shebee · #12 Post by **Shebee** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:48 pm

At about 15/16 I worked for Sir Eric (I think it was Eric) and elderly gentleman who was something to do with English Heritage or what ever it was called at that point. Cataloguing his library in a very posh house, paid for 3 hours twice a week to look at the most amazing books and research papers on everthing from 1920's art and architecture through to the tests on the different types of gravel tested as footpaths round stonehenge. At 3pm I was called down to the sitting room for tea and cake and an hours (PAID) discussions on life the univers and everything. He did seem to be genuinely interested in what I thought of things and spent a lot of time talking about art and history. It is to my shame that I cannot remember his name, he did teach me a lot and opened my eyes to a lot of things.

I also worked in a petrol station sunday mornings , and at any other spare moment, this paid for my first 250 in cash. When I finally started my Mechanical apprenticship I droped 50%in wages from the cash in hand the petrol station paid

snapdragon · #13 Post by **snapdragon** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:38 pm

ooooo lovely job Sheb

First one - newspaper delivery (11), then at 13 I added 'mothers help' (afterschool doing all the washing up and stuff that was left after her cleaning lady had gone home) - still doing 'the papers' morning and evening. at 15, as well as saturday work in a shop for a few months I started babysitting - every saturday (and often sundays and/or fridays) till I was 18 - stopped with the papers at 16 when I left school and started as junior clerk in an insurance company

I think it's time I stopped

#14 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:47 pm

I used to get chased by Jack Russells and Mascovie Ducks on my paperround. Fecking things

Actually made it into the papers I delivered at one stage.. on my 'hack' bike.. no brakes, glued together tyres and breaking any laws applicable to pushbikes... big picture in the paper..

Coppers never said owt tho'

Samray · #15 Post by **Samray** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:53 pm

Kwackerz wrote:I used to get chased by Jack Russells and Mascovie Ducks on my paperround. Fecking things

Actually made it into the papers I delivered at one stage.. on my 'hack' bike.. no brakes, glued together tyres and breaking any laws applicable to pushbikes... big picture in the paper..

Coppers never said owt tho'

Shoulda made it into the papers the week you delivered em by sledge too, after collecting em from town when nothing else got in or out cos of the snow drifts.