Has this been done,your first job?

[2PedalsTez]

TV repairs.*


* If you class repairs as being given a hammer and two screwdrivers and spending most days discharging then smashing the necks off faulty tubes.

 

[Theseus]

Factory labourer.

• School holidays at the factory my dad worked at, working shifts on injection moulding machines making industrial helmets for the coal board.
• Gap year and university holidays, production line at either
  • Jays, bottling Parazone
  • Thermalite, making breeze blocks
  • Another factory I can't remember the name of packing boxes to order for dispatch and loading lorries.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Tyre fitter, Cargo club Wednesbury. (Opposite Ikea where B&Q is now)

 

[smokeysmoo]

Not counting paper rounds, mine was working 6 - 6 on Bolton market cutting up frozen chickens Only did it twice due to the horrific pay. 12 hours = £12! (FYI this was 1988).

Then glass collector/bar filler uperer in a pub/hotel. This progressed into full time employment from school and I was there for 8 years after working my way upto Deputy Manager

 

[growingvegetables]

"Assistant Estate Handiman" - ie the dogsbody's dogsbody's dodgsbody, on a local estate ..... no, not that kind of estate! A proper one, owned by an absentee toff. Mowing grass, cleaning cars (some real classy ones), veggie gardening in a very old walled garden, beating for grouse and pheasant, painting gates, brushing trees. No two days the same --- happy times

 

[palinurus]

Labourer for a bloke who installed and repaired swimming pools.

Involved lots of shovelling. I didn't last long.

Earned 20 quid and spent it in Our Price.

 

[Drago]

Had my own informal business when I was 16-17 doing gardening/landscaping work in the local area while I was at college.

But my first proper job was Soldier.

 

[The Brewer]

Finished my exams on the Friday and started a summer job as a plasterers laborer on the Monday. Changed my mined about sixth form and stayed as a plasterer for 4years. We've had extentions and house renovations so I used the skills learned

 

[Stonepark]

Holiday job was stone picking on open casts after they had put the soil back, team of 4, 20 min in tractor doing 4mph, 1 hour picking stones and throwing in trailer in rotation, we used to shift 3 1/2, 9 tonne trailer loads in 12 hours.

Couldn't do it now.

 

[mickle]

Bar steward in a bIngo hall. I kid ye not.

 

[ianrauk]

Window Cleaner in Merton. Company had the contract for all the public buildings. Libraries, Old Peoples Homes, Council Buildings, Kids Homes etc.

 

[blade1889]

I joined the Army at 16, only 368 days left to serve

 

[steveoo]

My mates dad had a small holding and kept pigs and poultry used to help muck the pigs out every day and make up the pig swill in a big wood burning boiler.Great days going to the various markets for the waste food sat in the back of an open trailer darting along country lanes no health and safety.My pay was one pig at the end of the fattening season we would take them to the slaughter house and, well you probably know the rest.

 

[biggs682]

first full time job for me was working as a trainee muchnic at a Lade dealership

 

[NotthatJasonKenny]

Paper rounds then at 16, instead of doing the btech in computer studies I had promised to do I joined the YTS as a car salesman.