Your first (paid) job...

[classic33]

I worked as a room cleaner in a local inn!

Any room?

 

[jhawk]

Any room?

It has since closed down.

 

[classic33]

It has since closed down.

They missed you!

 

[Fnaar]

OK, paper rounds don't count (I had several)

I lived right on the edge of town (literally... there were no roads beyond mine, just hospitals and farms), surrounded by 3 of what were then called mental hospitals. Pretty much everyone in our neighborhood worked in them, from doctors to cleaners. Most of the neighborhood were immigrants (Ireland mostly, Italy, Spain, Portugal, India, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Malaysia etc).

From 16, I worked as a "domestic assistant" for 2 years at weekends (= washing up, cleaning floors and toilets)

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

I worked as a room cleaner in a local inn!

Were you the guy that told Mary and Joseph to fark off ?

 

[Drago]

It has since closed down.

They closed the room you cleaned?

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

They closed the room you cleaned?

Deemed uninhabitable.

 

[Drago]

He scrubbed it with a toilet brush.

 

[Biff600]

My first job was working at a dog kennels, I started at 8am and finished at 5pm..........and they gave me £1 !!! As the woman said that it wasn't about the money, it was about the pleasure of working with dogs............what pleasure is clearing up dog-sh1t all day ???

Never went back, got a job as a paperboy instead and saved like mad to buy a ticket to see Led Zeppelin at Knebworth just after my 15th birthday

 

[Drago]

Was that the farewell gig in 1979?

 

[byegad]

Blimey, he just didn't care, did he, your Uncle? Died a pauper no doubt...

2s6d was not an insignificant sum for a 10 year old to earn in one morning. I got tips too, and the best tippers were the criminal element in Cannon Street, famous a few years later for the 'riot', think battle, between police trying to re-arrest an escapee from Durham Jail and the residents who used furniture to barricade the streets. Middlesbrough Police black museum had helmets with axes embedded in them from that day!

I remember getting a 10s tip as I delivered a wreath to a Cannon Street address. Whereas if there was a delivery to Grove Road (Where all the doctors lived.) you were lucky not to be 'seen off the premises' before you could give them the damn flowers.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

My first proper job was in a sub Post office on a Saturday.

We were robbed three times in two years - twice at gunpoint.

 

[Biff600]

Was that the farewell gig in 1979?

Yes, I didn't know until after John Bonham died the following year that it was the last ever gig they did in the UK.

 

[jhawk]

Were you the guy that told Mary and Joseph to fark off ?

Yes.

They closed the room you cleaned?

They closed the entire establishment! And it had NOTHING to do with me.

Honest.

 

[mark st1]

First job was a monkey trainer at the local zoo.
Pay was peanuts.

Can't believe nobody has come out with that one yet. Shame on the lot of you

(Paper round £12 a week back in the early 90's)