FabSwingers.com forum: First Job?

By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Mine was working in Safeways Cafe... I remember earing £3.70 per hour... those were the days..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My first job is the same I do now. Been doing the sane job in different places under the same title... Got paid £67 a week in 1988

bonus!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apprentice Engineer £12.57 a week, and only bank holidays off for the first year.

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By *ynonvalleyboyMan
over a year ago

merthyr

coal miner

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

ha ... can beat that, apprentice printer, £7.2/6 a week, that would be £7.12p today, for 45 hour week... mind you, petrol was 5 bob a gallon, (25p for 5 litres)

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

An early morning paper boy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Labouring £30 a week

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saturday job in a pie and mash shop!

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Stable groom...

Loved it but my God was the money shit!

- Amy. x

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

Depends.

If you mean proper job, I worked in Joinery shop.

But my first job as a kid was working on local farms during the summer hols, hauling hay, driving tractors etc, started when I was 13, fantastic fun!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a Saturday kid in W.H Smith £3 an hour for 4 hours a week. I loved that job.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A petrol pump attendant

(B)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ha ... can beat that, apprentice printer, £7.2/6 a week, that would be £7.12p today, for 45 hour week... mind you, petrol was 5 bob a gallon, (25p for 5 litres)"

We change to decimal currency while you were still at primary school, how did you manage to get paid in old money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Labouring £30 a week

Your first job Dave, not your current one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worked in a coffee shop in a train station.

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus

Woolworths, filling the pick n mix counter on a Saturday for £1.36 an hour.... Loved it

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By *ighly ProfessionalMan
over a year ago

peterborough

A payroll clerk. got £136 for my first 4 week pay . god so much money thought i was mega rich.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"Labouring £30 a week

Your first job Dave, not your current one

Cracker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Security Officer earning £2.80 an hour

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

Paper boy, mornings and evenings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Local corner shop on a tues and thurs after school aged 14 for 2 hrs after school and a sat job helping with deliveries for a pet shop x

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Paper round - got paid £1.50. Then stacking shelves in a supermarket at £2.50 for a whole Saturday. Wow, thought I was rich - I was only 15!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Riding instructor!

Still do it now sometimes- in and out of bed!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i used to help my mum as a kid when she worked in a hotel as a chambermaid, i did part time cleaning jobs and my first job after leaving school was in a supermarket.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Y.t.s joiner.. 34.50 aweek, can mind my first pay after my time was out, thought i was rich lol

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

Kitchen assistant in a nursing home started when I was 15, first thing to do at 7am on a sat was peel a whole bag of spuds, another of carrots and then trimming 20 odd cauliflower. I don't think I'd ever peeled more than a handful of potatoes before and I think when I started, there was more potato in the bin than the pot. Oh the blisters ...

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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago

Bedworth

Saturday job in a butchers shop. I left aged 17 after three years because they refused to take me on full time as an apprentice because I'm a girl.

Wish I'd had the balls to do something about it back then

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

yts trainee proffesional footballer £34.50 a week

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saturday girl at hairdressers earnt just under £10 for 5 hrs plus tips.

Loved the blue rinses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Delivering the free paper, 1p per paper and did 120 houses on a thursday after school.

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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago

Bedworth

"Delivering the free paper, 1p per paper and did 120 houses on a thursday after school."

I got sacked from doing that, someone reported me for dumping the papers in the recycling centre instead of delivering them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Delivering the free paper, 1p per paper and did 120 houses on a thursday after school.

I got sacked from doing that, someone reported me for dumping the papers in the recycling centre instead of delivering them

I got reported for non delivery, even though i had, so i put 5 through their letter box the next week and pissed on their car door handles!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a lifeguard at a council leisure centre. It was boring working poolside, but so funny catching thw ounlic trying to shag in the cubilcle changing rooms!

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

office junior £5.00 a week, but it was in a garage all those lovely mechanics i still love the smell of a greasy overal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Working at lloyds chemist as an evening girl after school xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cashier for Kwik Save as an after school job

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By *andm288Couple
over a year ago

oxford

£1 per week assembling electical wiring a soldering for a shitty company in the midlands ! earn a bit more now mind

(thank god )

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

McDonalds on a Saturday...thing my first wage was about £17ish

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Saturday job at Woolworths collecting and counting the money from the tills. Looking back I'm not sure why they let a 14 year old girl and a 15 year old boy go and collect all of that money. It was a big store, with furniture, electrics, sweeties, a cheese counter and a meat one. A busy Saturday and we would easily pick up £40k on the lunchtime round.

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