Other thread just got me thinking.

Mine was working on Ice Cream counter at Macaris on Torquay Harbourside. First wage packet £122.

That was the best job ever, if only just for meeting laydeez 😀

Plus Mr Macari was a lovely man; I hope he’s still going.

First proper job?

Ambulance Cadet.

McDonald’s

coal man. delivering miners coal and hawking door to door.

pot wash

Worked as a waiter at a hotel in Scarborough for £3.10 an hour. Usually finished work at 10:30pm then went to the pub to spend most of my wages on some good old underage drinking.

First proper job?

Sorry, not very clear. First job wherever (mine was a summer job) apart from paper round (as a bit obvz for many)

LBS skivvy.

When I was at 6th form I had two part time jobs, one writing SW / editing books on programming for a local distance learning college and the other pot scrubbing in a Cambridge College kitchen.

Sainsburys, butcher dept….. In the days of the brown 3/4 length coat and clip on tie…

Worked in a wire mills from 16 (1975) as a general labourer in the stores
Weekly wage was something like £18

heavy engineering in a forge, making BIIIIG crankshafts.

Sorry, not very clear. First job wherever (mine was a summer job) apart from paper round (as a bit obvz for many)

Tricky then.

I was a beating during the season from about 11 not sure you can count that. We picked tatties during the season from when I was about 13 but that was only a few months, I was paperboy for 3 years mornings and afternoons, so that was more of a job but can’t count that. I helped with picture framing for about a year after school, weekends between paper rounds. Then for 3 month after finishing school I stacked shelves in the local co-op before I started in the NHS.

So yeah ermmm!

Waiter in local pub/restaurant. Spent my wage on beer at the bar and smoking with the French chefs.

butchers delivery boy, proper heavy cast iron bike. best school job was in a cinema with one night a week in the projection box. picked berries for a few summers, did some bar work, first proper job was on a lifeboat

Milk round- £40 a week for a 15 year old wasn’t too bad in the mid nineties. IIRC worked about 5:30 till 7:00 Mon-Fri, sat was about 5:00 till 8:00. Plus a pint of milk everyday you worked.

After that I started my apprenticeship as a fabby.

Bricklaying on a YTS scheme.
Perfect footing (no pun), for a career in Engineering Design.

Apprentice engineering Patternmaker in a large steeklworks making woodenm patterns to be cast in steel, iron, brass or aluminium. 14 quid a week.

Farm work from 9/10yrs.
Apprentice motor mech from 16 earning £5.2/6p. Earned double that working nights/weekends on the farm 😆

Press Officer at National Breakdown, met my future wife on day 1, got made redundant three months later!

Summer job, worked at a company that sold slaughterhouse equipment!

Worked at a cafe on Madeira Drive in Brighton weekends and school holidays.

£6 a day plus a couple of quid bonus if it was busy.

YTS scheme – a day-release college course doing B-Tec business studies as well as being trained up as technical author for the company “employing” me.

I think it was something like £27.95 a week. Slave labour…

Brogue shoe sprayer for Loakes.

First proper job summer 1977 at local slaughterhouse now closed, £25 a week for 12 weeks, then started engineering apprenticeship for £18 a week! Very disillusioned. Was dating local butchers daughter at the time who bought from there so tried to impress!

first proper job, chain boy on the M20 widening job in the early 1990’s

P/T at Tesco on the produce department while doing my a-levels

Summer job – boxing computers in a factory in Inverclyde.

Proper job – PRHO (three months each of trauma & orthopaedics, hepatobiliary surgery, haematology and chest medicine).

Winch driver (and general dogsbody) at a gliding airfield

Spent a glorious summer working in a small brewery in the middle of Salisbury Plain.

As a result, on my CV, under “Organisational skills” I can proudly claim that I have organised a pissup in a brewery. 😀

wet end relief on a road-laying crew

worked at an ice cream factory, it was ace!

the machines kept breaking down, the ice cream kept flowing, i used to get covered in the stuff, and was constantly licking my ice cream soaked fingers.

one day the machine that put the lids on the plastic tubs packed up so i had to do it by hand, i quickly drew a few smiley faces in the ice cream before putting the lids on them,…i’m sure that made someones day somewhere!

My mate got sacked for travelling down to the warehouse on the conveyor!

lol,..great times.

Apprentice vehicle & plant fitter for City of Durham Council, Feb 1972. 1st pay packet £7.26 in cash.

Squaddie.

Hmm, tricky – I’ve only ever had one real proper job, as in something where I turned up every morning and left every evening, and got paid at the end of the month. That was for IBM, and I lasted 8 months. But even that wasn’t really a job as they didn’t really have an actual job for me to do, I really spent 8 months going on training courses and trying to get Doom to run on an OS/390 mainframe.

wet end relief

That’s not what it sounds like, is it?

As a schoolboy Gardner for all the elderly heighbours and their friends…….I did a bloody good job too…..only downside was one old lady always wanted her massive front garden which was mud, digging over every week as she liked to see freshly turned earth……..I didn’t really think about it at the time but as a 16 year old very fit and muscular Young man I always ended up doing it in just my shorts sweating more than she was whilst she was watching me…… Bless her, I guess I was pimping myself willingly but she did pay well 😆

Surely men of your standing don’t need to flash a CV to procure a job, CFH, merely a handshake.

Or a quick frottage, maybe, cos I’m not sure how things work in those circles…

😉

CaptainFlashheart – Member
wet end relief
That’s not what it sounds like, is it?

🙂 no idea, but i know someone who has that as his job title and its always made me giggle

Worked weekends & school hols in LBS. Does that count ? First job with an actual contract was junior project engineer for a small local engineering company. That was less fun, I had to get my hair cut 🙁

selling/serving petrol at 30p per Gallon continued with this as first proper job trainee civil eng .technician only paid £1500 pa not too many ‘interesting/other jobs around at the time!happy days 😉