Your first (paid) job...

[MarquisMatsugae]

Anyone who remembers their first wage is either lying or gives too much of a sh*t about money

I do as it seemed like fortune to me

 

[PeteXXX]

Are you sure that was an hour & not per week, that's like £58 an hour these days & at 15 that would have been a good wage

Sorry, my bad! Yep, per week <doh>

 

[screenman]

Test pilot for Airfix, when I got too big for that job I became a hod carrier for Lego.

In truth, helping the parafin delivery man when I was 11, dropped that for helping the bakery delivery guy. Loads of other pre school leaving jobs followed.

Firs full time was my apprenticeship £6 per week or 15p per hour in 1972. It only lasted 8 weeks, I have a very poor employment record.

 

[screenman]

Anyone who remembers their first wage is either lying or gives too much of a sh*t about money

Or has a good memory.

 

[gavgav]

Invoice Administrator

 

[swee'pea99]

Answered a card in a newsagents window looking for a window cleaner. When I turned up at the door, Mrs Wilson looked at me rather sceptically, saying 'I was expecting someone a bit older'. I must have been about 13 or 14 at the time, and small for my age. I assured her that I was quite capable of cleaning windows, and I'd give it a go, and if she didn't think I'd done a good enough job, she didn't have to pay me. I ended up working for Mrs Wilson for a year or more, mostly gardening, with windows once a month. It was only later that I realised she was actually paying for a bit of companionship - a friendly face for a couple of hours every Saturday morning.

 

[Milkfloat]

I worked in the local paper shop stacking shelves because I was too young for a paper round. I was paid a pound an hour. I remember the amount, because my father wanted me to keep my first every 'grown up pay' as a bought an airfix kit instead.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mine was working in a local pet food factory. I worked Saturday mornings and most school holidays. £2.00 for the Saturday mornings and £23.00 for a whole week. That was in 1976/77,but it was still poor pay compared to the going rate at the time.

 

[Jimidh]

Sunday paper round when I was 13 which I kept going until I left school at 18.

I also worked in Fine Fare Supermarket ( remember them?) from 16 until I finished university.

 

[jonny jeez]

Design consultant (draftsman) whilst at college (one day a week) as part of training for architecture qualifications.

Did Saturdays at BHS in Bexleyheath before that. Had to wear a straw hat all day and had great fun.

 

[AndyRM]

Legal - a pub in Newcastle.

Illegal - a head shop in Venice Beach.

 

[EltonFrog]

I've written about this before on another thread but I used to earn seven shillings a week doing this : I used to ride a shop delivery bike, delivering meat for FJ Morris the Butcher, in Craven Terrace, Paddington around 1969 -1971. Bloody heavy bike, sometimes a local hotel, like The Royal Lancaster would phone up as they had ran out of meat and order a side of beef, which I couldn't lift, Morris would put it in the front basket, I'd cycle round to the hotel and a chef, or a kitchen porter would have to come and lift it outwhen I got there. I was 12/13 at the time.

I wonder if kids that age are riding round every bikes today?

 

[BrumJim]

Paid: Working for my uncle up to Christmas selecting turkeys. Then later, at the shop selling them.

Unofficial - helping my Dad stock-taking at the garage.

 

[ANT 666]

Coventry market, Wednesday after school, Friday after school, all day Saterday Two quid a week! Better money than my mates doing paper rounds and not up so early. 1968/70
My future wife worked on the same stall, still married....AHHH

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Mine was working in a local pet food factory. I worked Saturday mornings and most school holidays. £2.00 for the Saturday mornings and £23.00 for a whole week. That was in 1976/77,but it was still poor pay compared to the going rate at the time.

I disagree, £23 a week in 1976/77 was a reasonable wage if you were only 16/17 at the time, I was an apprentice at the same time & I was on £19 a week, mate was on £17, pit moggies were on about £28 so £23 was good.