First Job

[lavrentis]

First job - the one I have now Software Developer

[SystonFox]

Syston co-op till staff.

Started that over 11 years ago. Not doing it now obvs.

Had some cracking laughs there.

Also used to get a chippy from Today's Catch after every Friday shift! I even remember what I spent my first wage packet on

[Jon the Hat]

Tesco near home in Surrey, then Sainsbury's Wigston during Uni.

[Soar Fox]

Boots at Fosse Park.

£75 a week for 24 hours work but absolutely loved it. Didn't do too bad with some of the girls that worked there aswell.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

JJB Sports Fosse Park, footwear department.

[midland_red]

Saturday job in a leicester hosiery factory where my dad was a mechanic

[Grandad.]

Pot washer at Quorn Country Hotel, got sacked because they wouldn't give me the shift off as I had a ticket for Leicester away to Chelsea in the League Cup, no chance I was missing that with over 20 friends. 

 

Shame really, was good money at the time, 16 and it was like £5.50 an hour which I think 7 years ago was really good money for a 16 year old. 

[StanSP]

If paper-rounds don't count then Saturday Host/Receptionist at Marshall Land Rover in Bedford.

 

One of the easiest jobs ever. From 1pm to about 5pm I'd be keeping up with football scores and watching Gillette Soccer Saturday. 

[Monk]

Worked a few hours a week at the graypaul Ferrari garage in Loughborough when I was 15 which was awesome, but first proper job less glamourousl in a electric fire factory at 16. Fun times.

[Rincewind]

Trainee gardener/dogsbody on Abbey Park. Spent most of the time using a hand mower on the Roman wall gardens and the grassy bit on the river bank. Put me off gardening for life.

[Buzzell]

Worked in The Curry House at the Tigers ground serving food and pouring pints. Me, my best mate and my brother all worked there at the same time. Shit pay but was a right laugh. The chicken curry was beautiful. Used to nick one after every shift.

[leicsmac]

Pot washer and egg/bacon/sausage sarnie maker in the restaurant for the divers at Stoney Cove at the weekend.

 

So fvcking happy when I got offered a job in the diving centre proper instead, even though it meant a 6am start.

[Finnegan]

KP at Cossie Mill.

[lavrentis]

KP at Cossie Mill.

King Power?

[Finnegan]

Kitchen porter. Posh pot washer.

[kingcarr21]

Pot Wash at the Gynsills. Very glamorous

[sphericalfox]

250 approx customer paper round - cash. First proper pay cheque was working for youth park clean-up operation (we mostly pissed off to play sport when the supervisors went back to the office).

[rico]

In the early 80s i used to pack away a market stall called Cut Price Cigarettes after school for £10 p/week  

[dobbylcfc]

Stacking shelves at sainsburys fosse park £100 every 4 weeks for 8rs a week work not to bad for a 16yr old

[Fox92]

Sainsbury's for me as well... Always fancied stacking shelves, didn't seem to difficult, I was serving customers.

[hairy]

Building site labourer

[lavrentis]

I got told to get a job many times when I was a kid, I didn't. My advice is be as lazy as you can be until you reach the age where you can't

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Odd job man at Rothwell house hotel.

I was 16 and didn't have a clue what to do half the time. If only I had Google on a smart phone back then.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

General bitch at Budgens - stack shelves, work tills, trolley collection

 

Minimum wage, plus bonuses (eat all the sausage samples as soon as the become available on the deli)

[Beliall]

Cleaning a garden center somewhere within cycling distance of Elmesthorpe. Was a long tine ago