FabSwingers.com forum: Your first job

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

What was your first job upon leaving school/college/university?

Mine was a YTS (youth training scheme..thanks Mrs T) at Boots the chemist for which i was paid £23.50 a week

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

God yeah mine was a YTS doing office stuff.

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

Fixing hackney cabs, used to find drugs and money down the back seats

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

In a factory making shop shelves

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

touring europe with a band at age 15

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

YTS hairdresser

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

I worked in Tesco whilst still at school and for a while after.

Most of my friends worked there too and we used to just muck around all day. It was probably the most fun job I've had.

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

First above-board job was weekends at a record store. Loved it.

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

YTS in Ravel shoe shop

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

My apprenticeship at my previous job - in a private nursery. I started off on £2.50 an hour. Qualified within ten months (on a year and a half contract) and stayed for two and a half years. Awful place.

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

YTS Estate Agent office junior- although I was running the office single-handedly.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

Hand job in the office store room

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

"Hand job in the office store room"

Why am i not surprised

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

"Hand job in the office store room

Why am i not surprised "

Because you are the one who gave him

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

First time I did paid work apart from paper round was when I was 17 .Worked in Hope Uni over the summer 93 . They where moving the library so I had to sort out thousands of books in alphabetical order then take them over the road to another building and put on shelves ...took 2 of us 6 weeks ,and the last week was great because all the students started coming back

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

"Hand job in the office store room

Why am i not surprised

Because you are the one who gave him "

Only because you weren't available

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

"Hand job in the office store room

Why am i not surprised

Because you are the one who gave him

Only because you weren't available "

Bloody life took over !

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

Me: Defence contactor for weapons components. (Factory worker)

Lee: Infantry soldier

Xxx

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Did a paper round (old school daily papers getting up at the crack of dawn type thing not the local freebie) and also worked in a garden centre while I was still at school.

After leaving school though - first proper job was as a porter in a department store- which was a stop gap for 7 or 8 months between leaving school and joining the Navy - I still have the leaving card and pewter tankers they bought me when so I left too!!

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

Helped in my dad's gym when I was 7 or 8 but my first proper job was waitressing in a restraunt in Ibiza when I was 14

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

Nah -i don't recognize her

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

Apart from a paper round I worked at Tesco as a Saturday girl..that was my 1st job at 15

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

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

My first ever job was as a lifeguard.

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

I worked in a little company that made track changers for British rail and chisel and hammer heads

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"I worked in a little company that made track changers for British rail and chisel and hammer heads "

And ever since your life has been off the rails or a bit blunt?

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

A bank straight from School and was there 20 years.

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By *ruebameMan
over a year ago

from the womb and tryout to get back

I'm still working my first Job 25 years later and wouldn't Change a thing out doors all year round

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

Still on my first Job.

Commissioning ventilation systems and heating and cooling systems.

It’s ok but working with family isn’t as fun as I thought it would be.

Been at it for 8 years now.

Going to change career soon.

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

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By *ddibleMan
over a year ago

Exeter Bristol Salisbury

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

Things are hotting up then

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

Stripper

Peeling away layer after layer

Before the big reveal

Which in this case is to reveal its not what you're thinking ....

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

"I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

Things are hotting up then"

Not your one liners..

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

I used to work on a YTS in an office for £27.50 a week.

Then I used to work for Littlewoods Pools on a Saturday for £35.

I got paid more for my Saturday work than I did full time!

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Building site labourer.

87 1/2p an hour.

Couldn't spend it

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

Paper round. £10 a week

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

"Paper round. £10 a week"

After leaving school

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Science Teacher. But I can’t remember how much I was paid.

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

I worked at supasnaps on a YTS scheme

£27.50 a week plus £5 for bus fare. I cycling in.

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By *aucy tiggerWoman
over a year ago

Back where I belong

My first proper job was working for Wedgwood, selling China

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

"Science Teacher. But I can’t remember how much I was paid. "

I do! £368.48 a month. Gave my mum £50 and paid my car loan and the rest was mine. God I was so rich back then! That was 1987

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

First proper job when I left 6th form was the apprenticeship for the job that I'm still in lol.

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

Ditto YTS, Hull university electronics stores.

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

Receptionist at a Dental clinic. It was great ???? And very interesting when occasionally I had to assist the dentist during a procedure.

Really big fan of healthy, correctly aligned teeth

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

Apprenticeship as a fishmonger. got paid £45 a week for a 60hr week loved it. Second best job ever had.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

Things are hotting up then

Not your one liners.."

Do i know you from somewhere?

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

He Part time summer job, labourer for a builder.

She part time dentist receptionist whilst at Uni.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

First full time job sorry misread the message

M-warehouse operative

F-very specialised occupation which I can’t mention but nothing dodgy-far from it!

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

"I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

Things are hotting up then

Not your one liners..

Do i know you from somewhere?"

Thankfully not

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"I got a job in a bakery , early morning starts .

But good money

Things are hotting up then

Not your one liners..

Do i know you from somewhere?

Thankfully not

Is that a Welsh spelling?

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"Science Teacher. But I can’t remember how much I was paid.

I do! £368.48 a month. Gave my mum £50 and paid my car loan and the rest was mine. God I was so rich back then! That was 1987 "

That’s inc_edibly specific. Down to the penny.

I don’t even know what I got paid last month to that level of accuracy.

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

Factory staff £2per hour

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By *imply_SensualMan
over a year ago

warrington

Stacking shelves in the local supermarket, I was also at college at the time.

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

"Factory staff £2per hour"

Oi you. You back? Check your kik x

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By *ily Con CarneTV/TS
over a year ago

Cornwall

"touring europe with a band at age 15"

With who?

only interested as I was a session musician

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

"Stacking shelves in the local supermarket, I was also at college at the time. "

The question was what was your first job AFTER leaving college..

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

Civil service. Aometimes wish I'd stayed for the pension and flexi-time but it was so booooorrrriiiing

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

"Civil service. Aometimes wish I'd stayed for the pension and flexi-time but it was so booooorrrriiiing "

I left the civil service twice lol

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By *eavensScentCouple
over a year ago

Southend

Paperound then working in corner the shop serving people cigarettes, easiest job I've ever had.... not like the real adulting jobs these days! (M)

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

"Civil service. Aometimes wish I'd stayed for the pension and flexi-time but it was so booooorrrriiiing

I left the civil service twice lol "

Same. The benefits are great but the pay is pretty rubbish and I was sca_ed of turning into all the folk who stayed in the same job 50 years and all married each other!

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

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

"Factory staff £2per hour

Oi you. You back? Check your kik x"

I did and thankyou

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By *anOnFire69Man
over a year ago

The bedroom

Showing my age a bit but my first job was at a Happy Eater. Anyone remember them?

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

After college I was a hairdresser. £36.00 for £39 hour week. I gave my mum £15 board.

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

My first proper job was working in McDonalds.

I used to say to customers ‘Welcome to McDonalds, can I take your McOrder ?’ A supervisor came over to me and said ‘You don’t have to add Mc to ever word !’

So the next customer who came in I said ‘Welcome to Donald’s!’

I last 3 weeks

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I was a clay pigeon flinger.

They shout 'pull' I press a button and the trap flings the clay thing in the air or on the ground.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Had a job in a local newsagents as a child.

Then took a YTS which lead to an apprenticeship and now we own the company

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

"Had a job in a local newsagents as a child.

Then took a YTS which lead to an apprenticeship and now we own the company

Are you victor kayem?

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

I worked in a hotel not too far from my house.

I got sacked from there not too long after starting

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

I was an M & M. The peanut one for a year travelling the country making people happy and generally having the shite kicked out of me by 6 years olds

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By *anOnFire69Man
over a year ago

The bedroom

"I worked in a hotel not too far from my house.

I got sacked from there not too long after starting "

You did mean "sacked" right.

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

At the BBC (the broadcaster, just to clarify)!

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

"What was your first job upon leaving school/college/university?

Mine was a YTS (youth training scheme..thanks Mrs T) at Boots the chemist for which i was paid £23.50 a week

Mine YTS - Top Shop - £30.00 a wk

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

"Had a job in a local newsagents as a child.

Then took a YTS which lead to an apprenticeship and now we own the company

That's brilliant!

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

Haha worked in a Hotel kitchen at 14 every Saturday.£2(punt) an hr & a free dinner..I thought I was a millionaire

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Apprentice in engineering £15.80 a week

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Worked in the finance office and reception area of local sports centre the summer I left 6th form. I got about £130 a week which I think wasn’t bad 30 yr ago

Lex

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By *rave hunterMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Civil Site Engineer

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

Miner. How I miss those days. Never a dull moment and not sat tapping away on a keyboard all day, slowly losing the will to live. LOL.

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

Apprentice mechanic

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

Used to sell doors. Door to door.

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

I was a door to door salesman. Sold kitchen and bathrooms

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

Dry cleaners ... for a year

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

Worked in a library, starting at 8 hours moving up to full time and have only recently left after almost 10 years

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Trainee Computer Programmer.

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

"I was a door to door salesman. Sold kitchen and bathrooms"

How did you manage carrying the kitchens and bathrooms ?

Thanks in advance

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

YTS joiner after school. Then went abroad to work on sites. Loved it

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