Jobs wot I done since skool...

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Rafferty

Senior Member
Location
Essex
Apprentice carpenter. Carpenter. Works Inspector. Senior Inspector. Made redundant. Property management. Now semi retired following an accident, but an occasional furniture maker/restorer and luthier.
 

screenman

Squire
1st job test pilot for Airfix, then when I got too big for that job I progressed to be a hod carrier for Lego.

Parafin delivery at 11 years old
Bakers boy
Green grocers, best job ever and taught me how to sell and communicate with people.
Odd job bloke for older folk, my first taste of self employment at 14.
Petrol pumps for Heron, got the oil bonus more than most guys on the company.
Apprentice mechanic for 5 months.
Semi skilled mechanic
Van driver
Bigger van driver
Small lorry driver.
Steel erecting
Scaffolding
Site labourer.
Printed circuit maker
Gold plater
Mechanic
Mechanic
Mechanic
Car sales person
Used car sales manager
Security for pop concerts, saw some great bands and got paid and expenses.
And a few more in between.

First started on my own at about 19/20 when we had already been married 2 years, had my first car site at 21 and the second by 23, built up and sold a rubbish clearence business and moved up north.

That takes us up until 1989.
 
I use to put Toffee Pops into their packets.
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derrick

The Glue that binds us together.
Newspaper boy,
butchers boy, delivering meat with a bike.
Working as a butcher.
Then started working in a garage my dream job at the time, was a bit of a car nut.
10 years later needed a break went onto a building site for a bit.
Then a furniture factory for a while,
Back into the garage for the rest of my years
Semi retired now, and loving it.
Better mention it, I ride my bike more now.:okay:
 
Whilst at school:

Pea picker
Car washer
Grass cutter
Shelf filler at supermarket

Then as an immature person

Sales Clerk
Collecting fruit from farms (France)
Furniture remover (France)
Warehouse worker
Accounts clerk
Fruit picker/bee-keeper (kibbutz, Israel)
Hop picker (Tudely, Kent)
Packer in a lard factory
Accounts clerk
Cricket coach
Farm labourer (Norway)
Painter
Leaflet distributor
Timeshare salesman (Tenerife)
Barman
Hod-carrier/labourer
Furniture remover (Australia)
Hod carrier
Youth worker (Norway)
University
Washer upper
Hospital caretaker/gardener (Sweden)
Librarian
Translator/proofreader
English teacher
Nursery school assistant
Greenkeeper (Sweden & Norway)

When I left school after very successfully failing my A-levels, I looked for work which allowed me to save and travel: something, which to a lesser degree, I still do today (at the age of 55: don't want a 'proper' job, see). :okay: :becool:
 
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gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Little Chef when i left school, waitering, cooking etc. They offered me a trainee managers job, i refused, i had no direction as a school leaver. Perhaps things would have been different if i had the foresight, perhaps worse.
At 17, worked for a US/Canadian seismographic surveying company looking for the Vale of Belvior coalfields. Awesome job, 17, driving a 3.5ltr landrover across country and generally having the time of my life and earning twice my peers wages.
At 18, various jobs in the building trade, general labour usually.
At 19, engineering storeman which developed over the years to an engineering administrator/buyer. Had that one for 23 years, excellent job, mediocre pay.
Change of job completely and went on the tools at circa 42, maintenance engineer in the citrus packing industry. That took me to Cyprus many many times, Uruguay, Spain and Egypt. Good job, good money for an unqualified man on the tools.
That lasted 10 years, then to my current employer, same job, same industry...less pay. But ok pay...meh, it is what it is.
 

Dave the Smeghead

Über Member
Apprentice electrician
Electrician
Chargehand Electrician
major recession so put cages in lorries
Building Services Electrical Technician
Building Services Shift Engineer
made redundant so drove vehicle recovery trucks
Building Services Day Engineer
Building Services Supervisor
Site Manager
Contract Manager
Technical Services Manager
Operations Manager
National Technical Services Manager
just been made redundant now
Contracts Manager

Apart from the 2 incidents only ever worked in the electrical and building services engineering industries.
Quite good really as I like engineering (most of the time)
 

stephec

Squire
Location
Bolton
I use to put Toffee Pops into their packets.
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At the factory near Wester Hailes?
 

Saluki

World class procrastinator
  1. Dog groomer (part-time) & Groom in a stable yard (part-time)
  2. Riding Stables Assistant Instructor (working through BHS Exams)
  3. Huge Stables working up to Head Girl (dog grooming on the side to keep hand in). There for years and went all over the world for them.
  4. Elecro-plater at a Circuit Board manufacturing company (fancied a change)
  5. Insurance Clerk at Insurance Company
  6. Customer Services Manager at same insurance company
  7. Various jobs for Temp agency. IT, Inbound Sales, Customer services, Tech support stuff
  8. IT Contractor for a couple of years through Y2K malarkey. Various places
  9. Company Secretary for small re-enactment and replica historical artifact company (hated hated hated it)
  10. Customer Service, Bad Debt chaser for power company
  11. Dog grooming - again self employed
  12. Office Manager for a Guitar School
There have been various little inbetween jobs to avoid going on the dole, such as restaurant washer-upperer, selling ads for a newspaper etc. 3 or 4 week filling in jobs. Keeps the mind fresh. Better than doing battle with the DSS.
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
left school at 15 . been landscaping for the first 16 years and now work for a charity dealing with emotional disturbed young kids and kids with learning difficulties

you know what mate ,i tip my hat to ya..good on ya..id like to do that
 
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