What was your first job?

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Hand. In a kitchen at house party when I was about 14!

 

Paper round, milk round and spud bashing as a kid. First proper job was in a factory making circuit boards. Hated it.

 

Call centre first part time job then architectural assistant first proper job.

 

Office junior 15 years ago and still with the same company now but moved onwards n upwards through the company

 

Babysitting. First proper days work was helping someone build a garage. Full time job was trainee ophthalmic technician.

 

Worked in the old post office on Tuesday and Sunday disco nights glass collecting!

 

First summer job was making industrial hosing in a factory, first career job was working on a regeneration scheme in Leeds

 

Porn star.

The money was great but my arse killed.

 

Stacking shelves in the local shop on a Saturday morning and a paper round...didn't really mind the paper round at the time, a tenner a week seemed like a lot of money, looking back though I can't help thinking I'd have been better for that extra hour in bed, although it was good exercise, easily a 3 mile round with some pretty big hills.

 

Working in Safeway on the produce department. The knowledge about fruit and veg occasionally comes in handy still!

 

Apprentice Turner at Redfearn's Bros Glassworks

 

Apart from bits and bobs when I was a kid, the first job I got straight out of school was at a rubber factory. I painted this gloopy, rubbery stuff around the thread that the bung screws in to in a hot water bottle. I lined these little buggers up on a tray, put them on a conveyor belt, which took them downstairs so people could seal them in to the hot water bottles.

It was ******* soul destroying. Suddenly, all the **** that the teachers had said at school made a whole lot of sense. I'd wasted 16 years of my life pissing about, smoking, drinking beer and taking drugs and now I was stuck in a ******* rubber factory. I gave it a couple of months or so before I got a job delivering coal, then went back to school to resit the GCSEs I'd ****** up, then A-levels and a degree.

It was a shocking job for terrible pay, but it showed me exactly what I didn't want to do.

 

Sounds like an excerpt from an autobiography!

 

My first job was working on a farm in Tankersley, but when I first moved to London I had a little cleaning/post boy job working for Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne at their flat/offices in Maida Vale. I did it for 7 or 8 months and would help out with other things too. If you requested an autographed Ozzy picture from this period, chances are it's fake.

 

Cashier at Yorkshire Bank on Market Hill when I was 18.

 

Barnsley council, temporary for 3 months, lasted 3 years just kept getting extended every 3 months. Working mainly nights as a computer operator, on one occasion did a 24 hour night shift starting at 4pm on Friday and then went out round town!!! Did some wacky shifts. Also that was during the miners strike and it was a bit hairy at times driving home at 5am getting stopped by police or seeing loads of pickets!

 

Worked on Barnsley market

 

Paper round - Ventura - Teacher

 

I had a paper round when I was a kid and I worked for my Granddad every summer and some other holidays from the age of 13 until I went to Uni. He was self-employed and we did a bit of everything from decorating to plumbing to electrics to light building work. It was far from my strength - I was rubbish at woodwork and stuff like that - but it gave me enough of a grounding to now be able to do a fair bit of what needs doing on the house.

My first proper job when I graduated with a computing degree was as a computer programmer for Shepherd Construction which was at the end of the road where I lived. I've always been a lucky barsteward.