What was your first job?

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  1. Allendale-Red

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    Hand. In a kitchen at house party when I was about 14!
     
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    Paper round, milk round and spud bashing as a kid. First proper job was in a factory making circuit boards. Hated it.
     
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    Call centre first part time job then architectural assistant first proper job.
     
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    Office junior 15 years ago and still with the same company now but moved onwards n upwards through the company
     
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    Babysitting. First proper days work was helping someone build a garage. Full time job was trainee ophthalmic technician.
     
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    Worked in the old post office on Tuesday and Sunday disco nights glass collecting!
     
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    First summer job was making industrial hosing in a factory, first career job was working on a regeneration scheme in Leeds
     
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    Porn star.

    The money was great but my arse killed.
     
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    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.
     
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    Working in Safeway on the produce department. The knowledge about fruit and veg occasionally comes in handy still!
     
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    Apprentice Turner at Redfearn's Bros Glassworks
     
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    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.
     
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    Sounds like an excerpt from an autobiography!
     
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    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.
     
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    Cashier at Yorkshire Bank on Market Hill when I was 18.
     
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    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!
     
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    Worked on Barnsley market
     
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    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.
     

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