Your first job

[postman]

Don't worry saw the film Goal.A few times to make up for it.

 

[colly]

I used to bottle up of a morning at the Packet Boat - the smell of stale beer and fags before school

Hey ! That's my old bedroom your talking about !

 

[Crackle]

I was a paperboy and then at college worked during the holidays for an off license company doing deliveries.

Went to art college and did photography and then made a kind of living at it for a few years. I look back fondly on those times but I decided I'd had enough one day when I was doing yet another pet portrait, of a parrot and it bit me. Went back to Uni and eventually ended up in IT from programmer to manager. Need to find something new now.

 

[colly]

And as an aside, it was nice to meet you on Sunday mate.

And you Paul. I'm sure we will bump into one another again.

 

[PaulB]

And you Paul. I'm sure we will bump into one another again.

And that is you in your avatar! You look like one of my heroes, Gary McAlister in that pic. But don't get me started; I could sing all night!

 

[colly]

And that is you in your avatar! You look like one of my heroes, Gary McAlister in that pic. But don't get me started; I could sing all night!

Yes that's me alright. I had no idea I looked like Gary McAllister

F*** me now I will have to change the pic.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Petrol pump attendant on the A23...then a brewery worker in Hamburg

 

[col]

At 16 I went to darlington and simpson rolling mills, day release to college and got my iron and steel, blocks and billets, as well as my northern counties too. Wages at first were about £24 a week, but after all five of us complained we were doing the same job as older workers barring the friday at college, it was raised to £45, then after 6 months it went to £55 plus.

 

[mickle]

PT sweeper-upper at Gaffers cafe Hereford. Then barman in the bingo hall down the road and then 'trainee manager' at Motorist Discount Centre. Calling staff trainee managers rather than shop assistants got around the inconvenience of heating the place in the winter or cooling it in summer, working on a Sunday and excessive hours. £67 per week in 1982. Exploitative basterds I'm glad they went under.

 

[Abitrary]

a lot of people are claiming to have been a paperboy as their first job. I chuck CVs straight in the bin when people put that first. It shows they are trying too hard and it is also too difficult to get references.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

a lot of people are claiming to have been a paperboy as their first job. I chuck CVs straight in the bin when people put that first. It shows they are trying too hard and it is also too difficult to get references.

You'd struggle to get a CV from my boss when I was a paperboy - had a heart attack on his Honda stepthrough and went to the great newsagent's in the sky - or more likely the eternal flames of old red tops burning in Hell.

I first worked for a demolition firm as a teenager, way before HSE spoiled it. It was a kind of legalised vandalism that you get paid for - great fun for a young lad!!

 

[Maz]

a lot of people are claiming to have been a paperboy as their first job. I chuck CVs straight in the bin when people put that first.

I think you're being a bit harsh...these are the sort of people who move with The Times.

 

[Niall McL]

Worked as a builders labourer each summer when I was at uni and then did the same for about 10 months after I finished and was waiting for a starting date for the police.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I think you're being a bit harsh...these are the sort of people who move with The Times.

from the true Guardian of the pun, Maz.

 

[col]

a lot of people are claiming to have been a paperboy as their first job. I chuck CVs straight in the bin when people put that first. It shows they are trying too hard and it is also too difficult to get references.

I would have thought that trying too hard is what you would want, better than not trying very much at all, which seems to be the norm nowadays?