Your First Job

[Matt]

Mine was working at a Fish place, As in serving people who wanted fish for ponds or fish tanks, I enjoyed it at the start but started to hate it soon enough, I served people who wanted coldwater fish (Ponds, Coldwater fish tanks) and I also served people who wanted Tropical fish (Heated fish tanks) and the tropical fish area was hell i'm not joking it was literally like a sauna smelling of BO and fish, it was horrible, and some of the stupid questions customers asked were unbeliveable I worked 1 day a week (Sunday - 10 till 4) and got paid £20, I occasionally worked Saturday and the odd weekday during the summer those days I got paid £25, I worked there for a year almost 2 possible more i've forgot

So what was your first job, what did you do, did you like it, how much did you get paid?!

[Guest]

Saturday job in the toy dept at Woolies for a whopping £1.75 per hour.

[C-man]

Well, i was ball boy for Leicester Tigers if that counts

Didnt get paid directly, but got to see every game for free

[Hitesh]

Paper round. Dunno if that counts.

But my first proper job was at Argos. Started after i finished my GCSE's and was only meant to be a summer job but they kept me on and im still there. Only work weekends and im on good pay. Plus i get pay and a half on sundays so for working 8 hours over a weekend i get a decent wage.

Although the job isnt great the weekenders all have a good laugh. The change of management has been shit tho. the store manager is a di*ck and only seems to employ female managers. lets just say he is a bit of a perv!

[Shum]

Selling Mobile Phones £4 per hour! December 1999 while on Christmas break from Uni!

[Nationwider]

Driving cars for a car dealership. A great first job, and it's been downhill all the way (in terms of fun) since then.

Ah, the joys of getting less young......

[stez]

i worked in the green grocers bit of the co-op, it was great because i was away from the run of the mill shelf stackers. me and the salad bar girl had our own little office-come-storeroom

i've no idea what i was paid it was something like 2 quid an hour

[Thracian]

Blow

[kerryh]

My first Saturday/holiday job was working on a fruit and veg stall in the middle of nowhere - I got paid 1 pound an hour and once someone locked me in the cold store for 20 mins (it seemed like hours though!)

My first real job was working as a trainee secretary for a printers office and I got paid 3,500 for the first 5 months rising to 4,000 after that (I was flush!!!)

[Random Burglar]

Sainsbury's on the checkouts when i was 16 on £4.10 an hour and was there till i was 18 and now im at the gym!!

[Janx]

My first Saturday/holiday job was working on a fruit and veg stall in the middle of nowhere - I got paid 1 pound an hour and once someone locked me in the cold store for 20 mins (it seemed like hours though!)

My first real job was working as a trainee secretary for a printers office and I got paid 3,500 for the first 5 months rising to 4,000 after that (I was flush!!!)

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Thats nowt, when I wer a lad, e father battered us before breakfast worked 97 hrs down t'pit before...... etc..... sorry couldnt resist it....

But seriously folks at 16 I had 3 jobs part time as well as school

Tonis Cafe on Market St Loughborough, sweeping,washing up, sellig cappy chinos. after school

Then Antonios Trattoria( now Ferraris) in Quorn until about 2am doing starters, salads, deserts, wash up, basically a commis chef.

Thursdays and Saturdays, Irish Menswear Churchgate Loughborough, then Latterly High St Leicester...

I also arranged "Discos" for 6th formers once or twice a month, cos living in the sticks there was never much to do.... used to make a fecking bomb!!

Gave me a taste for 'ard graft and the value of cash!! In fact I probably had more cash on the hip then than I do now! .... and Ive got me own bizzo now!