What was your 1st job?

[Dj M Jaxx]

Mine was in Malton too
At a video shop stockists near the bacon factory (horrible noises going on there:| )
It was 1987 and I was allowed to take home all the video nasties I could watch each night :S

My Brother use to work at Malton Bacon factory, it was probably him making all the strange noises

 

[grover]

I was a YTS experiment(youth training scheme)... in the year ad1987 lol

still doing the same job now lol

big up maggie thatcher

 

[grover]

btw i hate maggie

in fact


maggie maggie maggie

out out out

 

[PepeLePew]

Apart from paper rounds / mil rounds / bob-a-jobbing.
I went to work at Swizzels Matlow sweet factory. Running machines that shrunk wrapped tiny little boiled sweets. If that wasn't soul destroying enough. I decided to stay and become an electronical engineer. Which sounds great - but there was no work. And being the lazy, under motivated person I was; I just dossed all day. Walking around the factory at will, eating what ever I liked and sleeping wherever I liked. Would have been something I looked back on with fondness if I had only done it for a month instead of 2 years.

BTW on the soft chew lines (Refreshers/Drumsticks etc). There used to be a couple of guys who would have to force the massive slabs of candy through rollers to reduce them down to chew sizes. If they were running low on lubricant, they would gozz on the chew to help it through. One of those peeps got sacked for trying to walk out with one of the massive slabs of chew(~15kg), which he had tried to secrete around his belly

 

[eve]

i was pretty lucky with my 1st job [even if it was yts £25 a week] i was office junior in a large engineering company in Rochdale which meant i had the chance to learn all aspects of office work but then i hit 18 and decided to leave home, party hard and give up work thinking back on it now that was a very silly thing to do, could have made myself a decent career out of it but hey what the hell no point crying

 

[nics]

i never had a paper round meself but me mate did.......well she got her parents to do it for her........but then a new kfc opened near her and they put promotional kfc boxes in the papers as a promotional thing and ya could get a freebie chicken box meal..........they never got dished out n we jus gave em to our mates till we got collered going in about 5 times one after theother and we got busted!!!

other than that ive done care work while i was at college for 2 years, went n done some factory work making electrical units and then i got the job ive got now.....which if fingers crossed will soon be over to ake way for yet another step up the ladder!!

 

[Judderz]

Always wanted to work on cars from being a kid, so first job was a trainee panel beater, they went bump (no pun intended), then became a trainee HGV mechanic, served my time, gained all my quals then binned it off, won't even touch a car now, hate that job.

 

[Northern Star]

left school in may 89 and got a summer job before startng college in september worked for cookson n cleggs which was a factory for making army gear, it was great tho 95 pound cash in hand plus bonus' regarding how many pieces you made needless to say that was a good summer for me lol

 

[CANO ...]

Had two paper rounds for years one before school and one after , the guy who i worked for used to let me have all the damaged fags for free

Proper job . Joinery apprenticeship from 16 working with sy69 off here , didnt last long tho as i got thrown out of college lol Tbh i would never of made the grade anyways

Then an electrical engineer working from a base in preston , doing contracts with firms in places like , preston , wigan , ormskirk , skem , kirby , formby , I hated it , again did not last long like ..

Then contracted glandular fever at 17 fuck me that was horrible had it for ages ..

Applied for a job on the post while i was ill , and im still there now 13 years on

 

[tricky nicky]

looking after old dears in a nursing home was my first job!!!!!
£2.30 an hour and i fookin loved it
had some mad times with the staff and the residents re-enacting scenes from world war 2!!!!(dementia)
when the place was being refurbed one of my colleagues decided to pinch half of the wardrobes, carpets etc that was being thrown out!!
cue me an her sneacking out the back door with a wardrobe trying not to look suspicious!!! She was poor so i helped her!
would go back now if the pay was better

 

[Antz]

My you have changed!

 

[sweet sensation]

I was a hairdresser for £29.50 a week in 1989

I cant list all my jobs cos Id be here all day and I will probably forget some! :$ Lets just say Ive had a fair few lol I would guess that Ive had the most jobs on osa, even more than Nowthen

 

[ste huxley]

Nice one they made me laff some of your jobs

I once did a moonlight flit foreigner style money making extravagnza from spud packing, it was to do this old ladies gardens, well fk me, it was like the enchanted wood! Brambles everywhere, tall grass, foliage to the max! Went in armed with Shears and a lawn mower, come out cut to fk lol She gave me 4 quid the tight get.:| Anyway promptly bought ezee posse love on love with itso its all good

Anyone got any old skool 'money making' schemes you wanna tell?

 

[Entropy92]

1st one i had was working in Wrights pies in stoke through an agency straight after i failed at school, soon as i walked in i was almost sick with the smell and then they put me infront of this machine and pushed a bathtub full of raw meat and potatoe filling up to me, handed me a bucket and said climb up that ladder and start filling it up! I must of lasted all of an hour, told the supervisor to fuck off and walked out lol.
The worst was workin in Mosspack potatoe factory where u had to keep pickin shit out of your nose cause the air was so thick with it from the soil. My job was to climb on top of the machine and sprinkle soil over the potatoes as they come down the conveyor belt so when the person at the end bagged em up they looked more "organic" when they were sold in Sainsburys! I even got sacked from there for being 2 minutes late off me break just cause i had wait inline at the shop to get summat eat!

 

[T.C]

hahahaha...made me larf that did

lol, me too

and that pic you posted reminds me of something years ago that cracked me up, and still amuses me now tbh

A few of us were watching telly and it showed on screen some woman making sausages in a factory
I remarked 'That looks like my mum!'
and some scamp replied 'Why, does your mum look like a sausage then?'


really shit joke / remark but I was crying with laughter for ages and ages after
suppose you had to be there
Anyway, as you were....

 

[T.C]

Oh and my 1st job was part-time in a Pharmacy, for the princely sum of £1.50 an hour IIRC

 

[very puddled]

had to think then ......

my first job was working in proctor & gamble as a cleaner , i hated it , i had to start at 5am and finished at 2pm and was surrounded by dirty old men for the whole shift , [who though i was there for them to perv on ]

so i left quick sharp........

 

[Tony P]

Used to prune stalks at a farm close by. Thats what got me into the whole prune-ing obsession.

 

[Lozzie]

I occasionally worked at a farm near my house, collecting eggs from the chickens. I didn't even get paid, i think i had the odd riding lesson. I just loved being on the farm really.


After that, it was cleaning offices when i was about 15...i think that was 3.30 an hour?

then spar, with this freak who still runs it today. she was a twat. she's actually barred my little brother for nicking chewing gum (at least a year ago-he's still barred) and she used to let her smackhead son cme in and take what the fuck he wanted!!!! I think that job was 3.10 per hour!!!!! WTF, I was 16.


Ive had a load of jobs...but nowt tops my current job for randomness thats for sure!!!!


hahaha.


Good thread, has propper made me laugh!!!!

 

[Tony P]

I occasionally worked at a farm near my house, collecting eggs from the chickens. I didn't even get paid, i think i had the odd riding lesson. I just loved being on the farm really.


After that, it was cleaning offices when i was about 15...i think that was 3.30 an hour?

then spar, with this freak who still runs it today. she was a twat. she's actually barred my little brother for nicking chewing gum (at least a year ago-he's still barred) and she used to let her smackhead son cme in and take what the fuck he wanted!!!! I think that job was 3.10 per hour!!!!! WTF, I was 16.


Ive had a load of jobs...but nowt tops my current job for randomness thats for sure!!!!


hahaha.


Good thread, has propper made me laugh!!!!

Farmer Gilfagan paid me in other ways too.