FabSwingers.com forum: Your first job

By *odareyou OP Man
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

Mine was a paper round aged 12.. £1:50 a week.

What was yours ?

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

Cleaning the potato peeler machine and general cleaning at the local chippy

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Waiting on in a pub at 14

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

Pizza delivery driver

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

Cleaner in the NYC public schools. Filthy but I had a great body from the workout and I got paid almost $19/hour.

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

Yeah, Weekend Paper round £5.50

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By *iss.HoneyWoman
over a year ago

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Office junior for an insurance company

That job had some wonderful perks

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

Paper rounds and I got properly ripped off.

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

"Office junior for an insurance company

That job had some wonderful perks

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

Shoe shop. £2.70/hr.

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By *ime for me21Man
over a year ago

skeg

Worked in a butchers.

Still do

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By *oejoe247Man
over a year ago

Bognor

Kitchen porter for me here at the age of 13 ended up a soux chef many years later

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By *iss.HoneyWoman
over a year ago

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"Office junior for an insurance company

That job had some wonderful perks

Don't look so shocked

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

Waitress in a hotel

Can't remember the pay but think was about £1.80 per hour plus free drinks at the end of the night

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Waitress in Sgts Mess.

£4 an hour which was a ruddy fortune back then.

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

Used to clean up a car park that belonged to the local diy shop at the time..pick up the rubbish with a litter stick and sweep and bag the worst of the leaves.

Took me about an hour all in and i got a fiver for it

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

Shampoo girl in local hairdressers...

downside washing a gazillion old ladies hair every Saturday...

upside free perms for me...jeez 50% of my posts today have been about my 80s big hair

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

Back room of a newsagents. Shit pay, and shit bosses

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

Saturday job in a newsagents. £11 for all day Saturday that we used to then spend on a night out in a local nightclub. I'm always amazed we used to be able to have a good night out on that when i was 16

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By *eesideMan
over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea

No joke. chef at £10 a hour.

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

"Cleaning the potato peeler machine and general cleaning at the local chippy"

I did this! But then it was my parents chippy so it was more like chores than a real job

Moved on up to peeling them once i could shoulder the bags

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

Spray painting primer on cars

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

"Mine was a paper round aged 12.. £1:50 a week.

What was yours ?"

Same age £7 a week, though

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

"Saturday job in a newsagents. £11 for all day Saturday that we used to then spend on a night out in a local nightclub. I'm always amazed we used to be able to have a good night out on that when i was 16

Those were the days eh?!

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

Early morning cleaner. Used to get in from clubbing at 3am and then be up and out again by 5:30am. Those were the days, cleaning mirrors and buffing floors before the hangover had chance to kick in

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

I worked in a bakery an hour a day after school, cleaning and such. £12.50 a week.

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

Working in a shop on Saturdays. I think it was there that I really discovered my distaste for people

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By *inzi LTV/TS
over a year ago

The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales

My first job was on a farm, bringing the cows in for milking, feeding the other animals, mucking out. Using various machines including driving tractors & trailers, watching and often helping new life enter the world and shooting the vermin with shotguns. Harvesting was a great time, hard work but you'd get a proper Farm Lunch, including a bottle of Forest Brown Ale*.

I got paid occasionally, fed regularly and learned so much about life... and death and I loved it. Every child should try it, the freedom is fantastic. Infact, it should be compulsory!

P.S. Going back to the * mark, any people that remember Forest Brown Ale will understand that many moons have passed since then! I was 6 or 7 years old and about 4 n' a half foot high... I was an adult in a boys body and treated accordingly.

Those were the best days of my life... sure there's a song there somewhere... having said that, I would go home and listen to radio Luxembourg!

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

I had two paper rounds at 11.

First actually proper job - apprentice plumber.

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

Paper round when I was 11 or 12 (I think) that got me £3 a week...then progressed to weekend/school holiday working in a garden centre at £7.00 a day...and finally first proper job as a porter in a department store for 7 months to fill the gap before my ill fated short time in the Navy.

Mr G

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

Gardening.. Age of about 12 on Saturdays

Clearing a 300ft garden hadn't been touched for years, brambles is all I remember taller than I.

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

Till tart at Tesco, £6.50 an hour

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I worked behind the scenes in a ghost train , scaring customers

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

working in a chippy.. £3 an hour aged 15

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

I was a pot boy at the festival hall in Basildon it was great we were always getting chatted up when collecting the glasses.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Like many on here, paper round. Was eleven and spent the money wisely on chocolate and books.

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

Morning paper round and evening paper round 15.50 a week

First proper job I'm still doing

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

I was a waitress on £1.50 an hour .. loved it...

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

Woolworths,i was a saturday girl and my wage was less than a pound,i was 15,jeez 43 years ago

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Saturday teaching riding - £2 a day! I had a summer holiday job with horses in a village near Beverley in Yorkshire for £14.65 a week plus 50p (plus tips!) for one evening a week pulling pints in the Dog & Duck.

The pub is still there - I went and had lunch in it whilst on a fab meet!

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

I used to do silver service for an agency in Nottingham - was quite well paid as I remember

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

In a warehouse, scanning old government paper files onto a database.

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By *uncouple_12Couple
over a year ago

bristol

Sticking up for my uncles skittle team £20 a time and a half pint which was good at 14 lol

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By *gentlovedayWoman
over a year ago

Tranmere

Cleaning chalets in pontins all day for £13

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Trainee Computer Programmer.

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By *ex LutherMan
over a year ago

Closer than you think

Worked on a video van £6 for a Friday night loved that job

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

First job was a YTS at Dorothy Perkins .. £23.50 a week

I never had a Saturday job or went to college.. just left school at 16 and went straight to work

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By *corpio67Man
over a year ago

hillingdon

Left school at 15

First job worked for Fred Perry sportswear for 3years

Met him on several occasions

And some of the Wimbledon champions

My claim to fame!!!??

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By *ome on downMan
over a year ago

Teesside

Squaddie

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By *avrick15Man
over a year ago

glasgow

Hand job she was a beauty...

Shit misread that

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

My first job was an apprentice cycle frame builder for cougar cycles, £75 a week back in 93.

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

I ran end of term parties for 6th form students. Started when I was in 6th form with my school, rented a venue, brought in my own dj and door staff, got the tickets printed and sold them all myself... Made a decent return so set about doing this across a number of schools near where I lived. Discovered for very little outlay I could make good money and could repeat 3 times each year... Summer, Christmas and valentines

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Ha!

I was 15 and resisting all attempts to get me to work when my parents found a weekend job in a florists at a dreadful rate.

Got lucky with a friend and ended up working in the centre-manager's office at the newly opened Clarks Village, a factory-shopping outlet.

This paid an adult wage and time-a-half on Bank Hols.

Apart from two of the older guys who worked there it was a good first job. There was an old Communist I used to work with and one of his maxims was "The bigger the car the bigger the cunt."

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

I was a high school entrepreneur.... Selling fags and drinks to the other kids in school... Self employed loved it

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

Helping my step-dad working on pig farms age 12. I'd get a fiver for a day. First proper employed position was in a chippy for £2.00 an hour aged 14.

Nell

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