Your first (paid) job...

[gbb]

Serving petrol at Comberton hill service station, and I could fill my moped up free of charge

Reminds me of one of my early jobs, i had a Raleigh Wisp, like a fat tyred shopping bike shaped moped.....i think it had about a one pint petrol tank

My first paid job, paperboy.
My first full time paid job, Little Chef, East Bridgeford, Notts.

 

[biggs682]

Reminds me of one of my early jobs, i had a Raleigh Wisp, like a fat tyred shopping bike shaped moped.....i think it had about a one pint petrol tank

My first paid job, paperboy.
My first full time paid job, Little Chef, East Bridgeford, Notts.

thats a point i forgot about being a paperboy

 

[sight-pin]

Apprentice journeyman electrician......Two bob an hour.

 

[ozboz]

Working in an old mill near Oldham , they made Hats , £5-0 a week , that was a fill in untill my first apprentiship at Mather & Platts Newton Heath, Iasted 2 months there , that's when I decided that working indoors was not for me , so ventured into Plumbing & Heating, site work

 

[Salad Dodger]

My first job was as a cashier in a self service petrol station. This was 1975, at the back end of my time at school, whilst I was supposed to be revising for my A levels, but spent much of the time riding my motorbike around the countryside.

A couple of evenings a week plus a day shift at the weekend ensured I had plenty of petrol money.

I gave the job in during the Autumn, because by then I was working in London for a bank.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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.

They were 9 hour days at the pet produce factory.With half an hour for your lunch break and two 15 minute tea breaks. Also, you weren't allowed to leave the premises in your breaks. My first job after leaving school was an apprentice painter and decorator with a local brewery's maintenance dept'. £28 a week in 1977 and as much ale as you could sup. Now that's what i call proper perks and decent working conditions!

 

[postman]

Third sales,Barretts Shoe shop,Commercial Street Leeds .It didn't last.It was soul destroying.

 

[Mark1978]

Cleaning maggots in a fishing tackle shop.

 

[Beebo]

I always had a paper round, but my first actual job was school holiday work in Sainsburys as general dogs body.
I was 16 and only wanted a few weeks work, i had no idea about contrcats and giving notice. On theblast day of my holiday intold them i wasnt coming back, the HR lady said i had to give 2 weeks notice, but school started the next day, so i just never went back.
It was the only proper job i ever had that paid cash at the end of the week. You had to collect a payslip from your manager then take that to the cash office at the back of the store, there was an air lock double door and you handed them the slip and your money came back in a paper bag via a letter box in the wall. Because i was 16 i paid no tax or NI, so was taking home more than the full time staff.
I would walk out of sainsburys with almost £100 in cash, it felt proper grown up.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Paper round, 22 shillings a week, then apprentice engineer, six quid a week gross and five pounds nine shillings and four pence after deductions.

 

[nickyboy]

Third sales,Barretts Shoe shop,Commercial Street Leeds .It didn't last.It was soul destroying.

eyelet you slip that pun in......

I was a paperboy and then I got my first job when I left school at 18; Assistant Stock Controller at K Shoemakers in Kendal. £84/week....it felt like I was minted (also a pun for those familiar with Kendal)

 

[Lonestar]

Sticking metal bits in a machine at the Hainault industrial estate all day long...I lasted three months and yes my first cycling commute from Barkingside to Hainault.(1981)

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I was a barman but only for a couple of months, the shifts weren't so regular to make it really worthwhile. My first proper full time job was making pastries... croissants, pains au chocolate and Danish pastry products in a continental style bakery. Hard work and early starts, but pretty good money for a 17 year old, and you had every afternoon off plus as many free pastries as you could take home. I did that for about 5 months while I waited for my intake to open with the RAF.

 

[Lonestar]

Well I did paper rounds and also worked in a chemist shop part time.(Before my fist full time job)

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4709319, member: 43827"]From the age of 14 I worked weekends for my uncle, who was a builder, plus summer holidays through university on Wimpey building sites.

When I left university, while I was job hunting, I worked full time for my uncle (cash in hand) while, to my shame, signing on. He would go to the cafe around the corner when I signed on. One day I was called in to see the Labour Exchange manager (it was that long ago) and I thought I'd been rumbled but he had just noticed that I had been to university and offered me a job behind the counter. I had to take it, even though I would be earning less money.

It was very embarrassing when I started work as I knew those who were fiddling, and they knew I had been. I was glad to get out of there after a few months.[/QUOTE]
Back in the days when half the queue would be covered in Paint/Plaster/Brick Dust/Mud or be up to their earholes in Grease/Oil.

Sign Here..........................NEXXTT.