Jobs wot I done since skool...

[Brandane]

Age 14... Petrol pump attendant (wot's elfin safety back in 1976?!)summer job, to pay for my first new bike, a Puch Alpine.
1978 left school joined merchant navy and sailed around the world for 3 years, supposedly learning to be a navigating officer. Left before my liver disintegrated!
1981 worked in a pub behind the bar, aka busman's holiday.
1982 joined Police and disliked it from the start.
2001 pensioned off on ill health grounds.
2001 worked for brother's vending business, filling machines from a van.
2003 trainee driving instructor for 6 months.
2003 salesman, door to door with aerial photographs.
2004 airline security at Glasgow airport.
2005 HGV driving started with agency.
2006 Call centre pest, lasted 3 weeks.
2006 More HGV driving, passed artic licence.
2012 Made redundant. Drove taxis part time for 2 years.
2014 Took job in clothes recycling shop for 3 months until it closed down. Went to HGV agency again, and still driving for them (part time, the joys of being a mortgage free pensioner).
2015 Another career break possible as I want to go for an extended tour of France. Maybe by bicycle.

 

[ACS]

1. Shelf Stacker
2. Promoted to apprentice butcher (hated it crap job going nowhere)
3. HM Forces (RAF) 29 years (not in IT)
4. Self employed IT Support (9 months)
5. Desk top support >Network Engineer>Team Leader> IT Administrator - Educational sector

 

[Stu Smith]

1. Paper boy
2.Apprentice HGV mechanic
3.HGV mechanic
4.Long distance HGV driver
5 HGV Owner driver.
6 Drayman
7. HGV Driver
8.Transport Coordinator
9.Transport Manager
Been around Trucks for 40 years of my working life,Hmmmm is it time for a change?

 

[Archie_tect]

15- Kitchen helper in a restaurant to buy moped [saving up for Yamaha FS1-E, purple one... obviously]
17- Warehouse stores pallet loading + fork truck driver to buy motorbike [saving up for Honda CB200, green one... obviously- passed motorbike test!]
18- started Architecture degrees [CB200 written off week before I was to buy CB500- the chocolate brown one- to ride up to start degree... run over by artic lorry in Leeds- insurance pay-out took over a year to get sorted out but paid for and ran VW Beetle and helped pay rent for 5 years]
Various part time jobs to keep me alive at university.
23- finished Architecture degrees.
24- qualified as an Architect
35- started practice
Present- still going... one day may buy a motorbike...

 

[Archie_tect]

Given you are only 22, Archie - you've packed a lot into your life

I've never looked as old as this before... perhaps I should've pointed out the the dates are [19]15 to [19]35....

 

[shouldbeinbed]

volunteer things - photographic lab assistant/trainee - polytechnic dropout - printer for Kodasnaps - photographic lab printer/processor/photo compositor - photographic technician - what I do now - kind of what I always wanted to and have been happy doing it but its a sector of the working world massively hit by cost cutting and is as stable as a drunk one legged donkey right now, hanging on grimly hoping to keep a) my job & b) my present salary over the course of the next few weeks.

 

[RWright]

restaurant busboy and cleanup (this one didn't last very long, I found out quickly that food service wasn't for me)

Cleaning and stocking at a Stuckey's roadside convenience store (didn't last long there either, neither did the store, sort of a strange place I thought but there are still some in parts of the US, from what i read)

After school and on Saturdays at a full service gas station: washing cars and refrigerated floral trucks every Friday and Saturday,changing oil and other minor mechanical jobs.

Senior year of high school as Printing press operator and silk screener every day after school from noon till 5 pm.

Beverage store selling beer and wine

Gas station attendant

Printing press operator again in a town where I attended college.

Bar Tender

all the above were while I was in high school and college.

Metal Finishing Shop Foreman

Building roofing trusses

Motorcycle and ATV sales

Heating and Air Conditioning installation and service

Stock and Option Day Trader

Web design and hosting, computer and database programming.

I am sure there is probably something I am forgetting as well.

 

[cisamcgu]

1. Civil service admin assistant
2. Computer programmer
+ Bar tender in evenings
3. Physics teacher in Tonga (VSO)
4. Computer manager
5. Computer programmer
6. Database administrator

All rather boring really ... now starting to count the years 'till retirement

 

[ianrauk]

School summer job was as a window cleaner
That become full time, first as council buildings then as high rise. Did that for a couple of years.
Then starting training as an apprentice plasterer, that lasted 8 weeks.
Trainee fireman, that lasted even less.
Bumped into someone at a gig, was looking for someone to go on the road with bands and look after their merchandising at the venues. (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Police, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Spandau etc), did that for a couple of years then moved into a desk job in sales, selling music to stores.
Got bored so moved back into roadie-ing for bands, then as a tour manager travelling all around Europe. Got bored again of all the travelling and bands/artists/venues/fans/managers acting like tossers, so got a desk job again in sales & buying, working for Trojan Records for 7 years. (I hate reggae). Trojan got sold, I was offered a job at the new company but it was a corporate business so wasn't for me. Got a sales job elsewhere, did that for a couple of years, then a few of us started our own music biz/film/merchandise/record label/gig company 12 years ago and have been doing it ever since.
I wouldn't ever get a real job.

 

[RWright]

oops, forgot about the "since skool" part

 

[vickster]

• Au pair
• University (au pair during summer holidays for family friend, also did some tempt stuff), English language assistant in a grammar school in Austria as part of degree (complete doss, 12 hours a week, £800 odd a month tax free, living like a student with v cheap accommodation, supplemented with a few private lessons with a bonkers Polish dentist, that was back on 1994/95)
• Visitor Services Officer for London Tourist Board
• Pharma/healthcare Market Research (now at 3rd company)

 

[mr_cellophane]

Clerk for a life assurance company doing company pension schemes
Wages clerk
Admin at a sewage works
Accountancy assistant
Computer Supervisor
Systems Manager
IT support at various places - Insurance, banks, police, nuclear power station, councils, construction.

 

[KEEF]

I think I left school in the Sixties and after that its a bit of a blur

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Brickies Labourer/Driver (6 months)
AA then AO for English Heritage membership department (1 year)
AO in IT for government quango that was bought out by University. Various IT stuff, everything but programming. (25 years in June)

 

[Aperitif]

Art School
Spurned an MA to earn for my parents, labouring (£29.00pw) then building etc.
Art School as paid person - drank Covent Garden, Chelsea and Soho dry.
PGCE in Design and Technology...
and arrival of son so...
'House husband' and freelance illustrator / designer / interiors etc...
Own company, property refurbishment...which led to an 'employee' job...
which has turned into a nightmare. Still doing it...
but I'm becoming a bit 'harder' now...
and drawing stuff again.
I didn't mean it to be this way - honest guv.