ACF Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 What was your first job? How did you get it? I am stuck for ideas to get my first job.
AmericanScott Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Walkers Stadium. Food kiosks. 6 hours of HARD work for a shitty £27. I hated that job.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 What was your first job? How did you get it?I am stuck for ideas to get my first job. When i was 15 Safeway stayed there for 3 1/2 years served me well help me buy a decent first car (which i still have) and payed for me to go overseas. So i recommend Safeway Al.
SemperEadem Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Worked as a pot wash. Hated it, stupidly long hours, soaked in horrible dirty water but the cheif was a laugh. Oh and before that i had a pretty decent paper round.
welck12 Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 In a pub washing dishes at weekend, simple enough work and if you get a good chef/waitresses it can be a great laugh
Leicfox Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Van lad at Warburtons, £90 a week after just turning 16 was great money 15yrs ago, served its purpose for drinking money anyway untill i joined the army later on in that year.
MPH Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 worked as a care assistant in a school for children with special needs.
lou Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Worked for a Company in Wigston called Groz Beckert being an office junior. Got it after doing a years YTS for 25 quid a week. Think my 1st wage was about £3500 a year but that was aboiut 25 years ago . I was the worst typist in the universe
Dr The Singh Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Worked for my dad, from the age of about 10, unpaid!! First paid job, was £1 a day working for a clothing warehouse, I used to move stock around and sweep floors!!
ousefox Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Paper round I still do. I have had up to £45 a week at some point!
davieG Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Apart from a paper round - an apprentice getting less than £3 for a 52 hour week with college for 3 hrs on 3 nights a week.
lou Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 What was your first job? How did you get it?I am stuck for ideas to get my first job. My Son got his 1st job last October and the guy told him he got the job because he bothered to wear a suit and tie and new shoes etc for the interview. He told him the majority of lads turned up for interviews wearing tee-shirts and jeans. Also he did his CV on really good quality paper and the guy also mentioned that really stood out and gave him an interview. Sounds daft I know but the little details obviously do make a difference! Obviously when its your 1st job most people dont have any experience so this is the sort of thing that employers are looking for and that will make someone stand out from all the rest. Apparently 90% of peoples opinion of you is based on 1st impressions. (Something like that anyway! ) Good luck
AyewJoking Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 My Son got his 1st job last October and the guy told him he got the job because he bothered to wear a suit and tie and new shoes etc for the interview. He told him the majority of lads turned up for interviews wearing tee-shirts and jeans. Also he did his CV on really good quality paper and the guy also mentioned that really stood out and gave him an interview. Sounds daft I know but the little details obviously do make a difference! Obviously when its your 1st job most people dont have any experience so this is the sort of thing that employers are looking for and that will make someone stand out from all the rest. Apparently 90% of peoples opinion of you is based on 1st impressions. (Something like that anyway! ) Good luck What was the job? My dad got fed up of me sitting around the house all day so got me an application form for McDonalds! Good job though.
DB11 Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 "Computer Engineer" on £40 a day But, I don't do it for the money (I do it to learn about computers). I get more than enough money from refereeing
Hitesh Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Paper round, in fact 2 rounds, one on a Friday and one on a Sunday. The Friday one was the most annoying, I'd get back from school and have to put all the suppliments into the main paper and then deliver them. I wouldn't be done until 7/8ish and meant I'd miss out on after school trips into town to get chucked out of Debenhams! And this was for about 150 papers. My next job after that once I was 16 and earning min wage was at Argoooos! That wasn't bad, a lot of lifting but good fun in the stock rooms!
lou Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 What was the job?My dad got fed up of me sitting around the house all day so got me an application form for McDonalds! Good job though. Apprentice Roofer
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 My Son got his 1st job last October and the guy told him he got the job because he bothered to wear a suit and tie and new shoes etc for the interview. He told him the majority of lads turned up for interviews wearing tee-shirts and jeans. Also he did his CV on really good quality paper and the guy also mentioned that really stood out and gave him an interview. Sounds daft I know but the little details obviously do make a difference! Obviously when its your 1st job most people dont have any experience so this is the sort of thing that employers are looking for and that will make someone stand out from all the rest. Apparently 90% of peoples opinion of you is based on 1st impressions. (Something like that anyway! ) Good luck My very first interview 2 ladies interviewed me and as i went to sit down at the table i accidentally kicked the leg of the table sending the coffee flying i was so nervous and embarressed.................. i still got the job
lou Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 My very first interview 2 ladies interviewed me and as i went to sit down at the table i accidentally kicked the leg of the table sending the coffee flying i was so nervous and embarressed.................. i still got the job Ahhh the old sympathy tactic eh? Wonder if it would have had the same effect if it was blokes?
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Ahhh the old sympathy tactic eh? Wonder if it would have had the same effect if it was blokes? Probably not.......also i was wearing a god awful bright yellow shirt
Granno Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 Conference Porter for 4.77 an hour. It's meh. Pays for the football though.
Alexikokopops Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 I had a paper round. Managed to get sacked after four days
Zingari Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 as a stoodent making trussed roof rafters at Gimson's timber yard near the footie ground , about 20 quid a week which was brilliant in 1969-70 ish the huge monster rats that used to appear every now and then between the stacks of wood was a bit of a frightener though
Hitesh Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 I had a paper round. Managed to get sacked after four days What did you do?!
ACF Posted 4 August 2009 Author Posted 4 August 2009 When i was 15 Safeway stayed there for 3 1/2 years served me well help me buy a decent first car (which i still have) and payed for me to go overseas. So i recommend Safeway Al. You mean Woolworths The 'training store' for our area is right up the road, and is always over-staffed. I am going to apply. Have also applied for Coles, K-Mart, Rebel Sport and a whole bunch of other places. I am not going into Macca's, KFC etc. The stories I've heard from there are just disgusting Thanks mate. My Son got his 1st job last October and the guy told him he got the job because he bothered to wear a suit and tie and new shoes etc for the interview. He told him the majority of lads turned up for interviews wearing tee-shirts and jeans. Also he did his CV on really good quality paper and the guy also mentioned that really stood out and gave him an interview. Sounds daft I know but the little details obviously do make a difference! Obviously when its your 1st job most people dont have any experience so this is the sort of thing that employers are looking for and that will make someone stand out from all the rest. Apparently 90% of peoples opinion of you is based on 1st impressions. (Something like that anyway! ) Good luck Who won't love me? And that's rhetorical by the way I see what you mean, but I don't own a suit. I'm mostly putting 'Expressions of Interest' in at the moment, so won't be tonnes of people applying Keep the advice coming guys
lou Posted 4 August 2009 Posted 4 August 2009 You mean Woolworths The 'training store' for our area is right up the road, and is always over-staffed. I am going to apply. Have also applied for Coles, K-Mart, Rebel Sport and a whole bunch of other places. I am not going into Macca's, KFC etc. The stories I've heard from there are just disgusting Thanks mate. Who won't love me? And that's rhetorical by the way I see what you mean, but I don't own a suit. I'm mostly putting 'Expressions of Interest' in at the moment, so won't be tonnes of people applying Keep the advice coming guys At least wear a shirt/tie and smart trousers then
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