Jobs wot I done since skool...

[PeteXXX]

I left school as soon as I could due to hating the place.( and regretted it many years later)

Employment since 1967...

#1 Trainee lithographic printer: Made redundant (great start to my working life)
#2 Lithographic printer: Left
#3 Nursing auxiliary: moved onto
#4 Student nurse: Left
#5 Creating fake antique Greek statues and chess sets to sell to gullible idiots: moved to another part of the country quite quickly ()
#6 Milkman : left, as chucked out of bedsit.
#7 Duty Free operative on the Hovercraft from Ramsgate to Calais. Seasonal job.
#8 Scientific Glass Blower: Left to bum around Europe.
#9 Worked in a Kibbutz as a gardener, in grapefruit plantations, picking lemons and in date plantations in the Jordan Valley: visa was about to expire.
#10 Assorted driving jobs from local to long distance at loads of places, some good, some shite: yada yada yada
#11 Transport Manager at Sainsbury's: left.
#12 LGV driver for another major supermarket, much less stress than previous managerial job and many more ££££...

With 3 or 4 years of slavery before I retire, I have no intention of moving on....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I was once a dry tool grinder but moved on to become a wet tool grinder. Then I went on to make jelly babies. Before that I'd unloaded lorries with Daniel Day Lewis in Deptford, but that was before I'd lost an important record about his father's (poet laureate Cecil) entitlement to a National Insurance-based death grant, about which questions had been raised in the house of lords, when I was working for the Social.

All pretty shambolic really, and impossible to count now.

 

[Trembler49]

1. Newspaper boy.
2. Bicycle delivery youth (remember small wheel big basket at the front).
3. Hardware store sales trainee.
4. Comis chef, then proper chef.
5. Milk factory machine operator.
6. Computer operator.
7. Computer sales support.
8. Systems analyst & occasional and very poor programmer.
9. Project manager (best ever job).
10. Computer sales support (again).
11. Systems analyst (again).
12. Help desk manager.
13. Tech support manager.
13. Software development manager.
14. Various sales and marketing roles.
15. Company director.
16. Product manager.
17. Retired.

 

[MrPie]

I pretend to work.....they pretend to pay me

 

[screenman]

32 jobs in the first 4 years for me, then self employed since. No retirement on the horizon as I am only 59 and enjoy work.

 

[vernon]

My generous trust fund has allowed me to retain the services of a butler which enabled me to sample a range of employment opportunities without the need to show any commitment - he did most of the work. One unfortunate incident at a computer terminal in the back room of a merchant bank precipitated the banking crisis but the less said about that the better.

 

[Mo1959]

Amazed at how many different jobs some have had. I've only had 2!

Clerkess in an insurance brokers for first 9 years then prison officer for 25..........only two, but certainly a bit different. Lol

 

[galaxy]

Trained as a Plasterer, did maintence for a Utillity company, back to Plastering

 

[Levo-Lon]

Motor trade at 16,made redundant,
YTS, motor veichle 1 yr
back to motor trade for another year....fook that,crap money crap job

self employed ever since..ups and downs galore but usually im happy with work.
i will have to look at a part time job when i reach 60 as no pension and doing my job at 60+ aint happening

 

[Drago]

Bouncer at a local alcohol establishment, cash in hand.
Briefly in an electronics factory.
Soldier, 1RGJ
Bodyguard/driver to a midwifery practice serving some of the less salubrious areas of Philadelphia.
Dibble, numerous different jobs within, though that may well be ending soon.
TBA - collecting trolleys at Tesco, standing around chatting in B&Q, something part time with zero stress or responsibility that I can shove up the bosses arriss with zero notice when the inevitably pith me off.

 

[Mrs M]

Worked over the summer whenI was a student in The Pancake Place, chief dishwasher, then promoted to pancake maker. Though it was great as could help yourself to the fizzy drinks at any time as the kitchen was hot (never had fizzy drinks allowed, so quite a novelty.)
Have been in the same office based job for almost 29 years but can't tell where or would have to kill you all.

 

[gavroche]

Telegram delivery boy at 14 during the summer in France.
Fruit picker in summer in France.
Glass making factory working nights at 16 in France.
French national service at 19 for 13 months as a mechanic on tanks.
Then in UK :
Waiter in a hotel.
Centre lathe Turner for 30 years.
Insurance salesman.
Driving instructor for 10 years.
French lecturer.
Supply teacher.
Now waiting for massive state pension in December.

 

[subaqua]

1)apprentice electrician with 2 companies
2) Electrician with more firms than i CBA to detail including self employed
3) Approved Electrician made up to Chargehand as above including self employed yes real and met IR35 requirements to be classed as self empployed
4) Technician made up to Foreman with a great company but started to stagnate
5) Site manager leading onto
6) ProjectS Manager but got fed up with the crap involved in dealing with children ( Directors and above) and took a step back for more money with a different firm
7) Construction Manager
8) NICEIC Qualifying supervisor ( inspections and quality assurance manager for electrical installations)
9) NICEIC QM - same job just more money and a little bit extra
10) next promotion imminent but cant say too much till its finalised
11) continue doing that till i retire then sod off round the world

 

[lee1980sim]

Paperboy, admin assistant, file clerk, stock controller, warehouse operative, fork & reach truck driver, production line operative, machine operative, team leader, order picker, customer service assistant, team leader, bus driver, hgv driver, bus driver...

 

[SteCenturion]

YTS painter & decorator 1 year
(left to go to college to get A levels)

Barman at 17.

Left college & home (A levels not completed).

R.A.F Firefighter 9 years
(should never have left)

Kitchen Fabricator in mates dads factory unit.

Bus driver, several firms, hated it.

Salesman. British Gas & Virgin Media.

Bus driver - Again.

Public Transport industry... dealing with several modes of transport & fraud detection.

Can't say where... they watch social media & sack people, well apart from ass licking, greasy pole climbing invertebrates, or jelly fish as I call them.

Hate this job too (but it pays the bills & has a 1/2 decent pension).

I want to be my own boss but haven't the capital to start.