What was your first job and your current?

That’s Ron Futcher after demolishing the Charlton changing room

 

Tatie picking.
Electrician pit
Electrician YW
Retired - hoovering. Weshin pots. Mowing lawn. Family Taxi. And other household chores. And believe it or not 10-15 hrs a week sorting busses out etc. Pissing mi mrs off . She wants me back to work art on rooerd. Wish I was, life was much easier lol

 

My son did a sports media degree, and we thought that was the way he was going to go. He even had a part time job looking after Cardiff City’s big screen on match days, remotely from Preston where he was at Uni.

He’s ended up doing something different. He works for a media team, but it’s for a housing charity rather than anything sports related. He loves it.

 

First job was fitting cable around Yorkshire. 12 hour shifts (6am to 6pm) Monday to Saturday. Good money to be fair, and great lads to work with. We fitted Gareth Gates’ Sky setup (famous for singing on the TV) and he was a bit of a bellend.

The dream was to write about football, sports journalism. Didn’t quite make it, but wasn’t miles off.

Soon to start work at a humanitarian aid charity. Decided earlier this year that I wanted to help people if possible. Wasn’t sure how. But looking forward to the next challenge.

 

First job: Call Centre whilst at Uni.

Current job: Work for the council delivering stuff to vulnerable people (basically).

What I should have done: got a trade. Sparky, Plumber, Joiner, Brickie. But instead, I spent my whole youth looking down on people like this for not being in the top sets at school.

What a dick I was. Still am really.

 

you must’ve been a scaffolder - I’ll get mi coyt

 

so out of date ;-) its now about stuffing mangos with chicken …. And adding cauliflower puree

 

First professional role was my Apprenticeship at British Steel Stocksbridge. Fun times and very different back then.

Now im Head of Marketing & Sales at a large, global technology and engineering company headquartered in Zurich.

its been a brilliant journey from the tools to the boardroom so as to speak and got to travel the world and meet some great people.

There have been a lot of offers and headhunting on the way but i stayed loyal. One reflection from my earlier career was being offered the Director of Operations at Donnington Park Circuit. I didn't apply but i knew the boss there and he called me up. Dont regret not taking it as i felt it would push a job and hobby too close together. I do reflect on what could have been.

 

Had quite a few jobs from age 13 but I suppose my first ‘proper job’ was at John Lewis Sheffield aka Cole Bros, after a brief brush with the world of pork pies in a pork pie factory…..

Coles was a great place to work and met loads of sound people despite them supporting United and Wednesday…

I then went to live the dream: boozing , socialising with the occasional bit of work at uni. My plan was to work in the city but I met my now wife so decided to hang around sheffield for a few more years. She was doing a 5 year medicine degree which left me to decide what I was going to do for a few years. so I headed to where all sound decisions are made (the pub) and decided after a solid all day drinking session with my mate that I would head into the world of law, and him into the world of finance, as that sounded alright.

So I did a masters in law in sheffield (with some more boozing thrown in) and converted to becoming a lawyer, then joining a firm in Leeds in 2007, which I love. I’ve turned down loads of offers over the last 20 years ago, and that loyalty has paid me back. I have grown and developed with that same firm and now own it, along with a few others. I became an owner and within the first year the pandemic hit which at the time was ridiculously challenging but the best thing that could have happened from a learning and development perspective. I find the role pretty challenging but equally rewarding, and it remains good fun and have plenty of laughs, which is the main thing…

 

My first proper job was as a steelworks from there I have been a window cleaner, a welder, a motor spares salesman, a pig farmer, a groundworker, a postman and now I'm a kerblayer/tarmac layer, add to this I write, my first book is due out on Amazon shortly.

 

It's very hard to pick what you want to do at school, especially I think without significant others in your life who can help direct you. I'd just look at fusty old book in Barnsley library to try and garner some info on a career path I might be interested in, which usually put me off. These days there'll be a lot more information on the internet to help, or perhaps that just makes things more confusing.

After 'A' levels, I took a degree in a subject I had never studied before. Then I went on a completely different path and went to live in a country for 3 years whose language I didn't know, worked there and learnt that. Then I came back and did a Masters degree in another subject I had never studied before. Meaning, I was chopping and changing all the time until about 27 years old before I started on my current career path in the City. Even then it's not where my heart is.

 

Ha ha!
Gave me a chuckle lol

 

I must have missed the Highlander thread, I tried rewatching the first one a few weeks ago and couldn't get past the car park scene at the beginning.

Loved the film as a kid but apart from the soundtrack it didn't seem to have aged well.

Let's see if the remake is any good?

 

Dining hall porter at Butlins, Filey (summer 1973).
First proper job, Infra Red Spectrophotometer specialist at Pye Unicam, Cambridge (1979-1982).

Last job was Yard operative at British Car Auctions Measham (mostly taking pictures of battered old vans).

Now retired. Most of my working life, I was a software developer.

 

First proper job from School working in a Motor Factors learning to mix and use car paints.
Left chasing the money for about 10 years doing various work that paid more than the last.
Back into car painting as a demonstrator for a DuPont which took me around the world.
Last proper job I was a Plastic Surgeon! Not that sort unfortunately but was a great job that again took me round the world.
Left about 9 years ago and work for myself selling Chemicals into the Car Industry.

 

My first proper job, after the usual paper rounds & holiday jobs was at Yorkshire Bank, New Street in August 1983, as a management trainee. I worked there through the miners strike. I went on to work in the legal department in Leeds, then I went into training & also did some lecturing on the side at Leeds Business School. I left in 1996, going back to Uni.

I currently run a DJ agency & DJ myself here & there. I've been doing that since 2006.

 

I never knew what I wanted to be (I still don't!). Started out as a clerk with Barclays Bank, numerous jobs in between, ended up as a freelance broadcast reporter on football for independent radio, now retired but still doing plenty of voluntary work. Plenty of ups and downs, but for the most part I've enjoyed it all and I wouldn't change a thing.

 

I grew up in a B&B so my teenage summers were spent working there. Went to uni and first proper jobs were on the till at a supermarket, then after having too much of a good time and failing a year my penance was 12 hour night-shifts at a computer factory. Pay was great.

The B&B had given me a love for travel and my uni course was one that allowed me to explore and I lived in Spain, China, the US and Korea in my early 20's, mainly teaching. Also worked in a bike shop on Pacific Beach, San Diego.

Wanted to become a pilot for a while, which sadly petered out as it's a rich boys game and fell into working in travel - planning holidays for others. I've worked my way up to luxury travel, planning high-end trips for the 1% with a global client base and manage a little team. Can be a stressful job, but love the perks, still being able to travel the world and to work from wherever my laptop is.

 

I did a couple of market jobs packing away stalls on Wed and Sat, and for a couple of years delivered newspapers around Honeywell area from the shop by the Chronicle office. I joined the Barnsley Sea Cadets and wanted to join the Royal Navy, luckily I did for 30 years as a WAFU. A derogitory term for the Fleet Air Arm. My Dad was a coal miner and after a schools career visit down pit, I did not fancy it. I am now a Supply teacher, but little call for my help, so do a bit of private teaching. I just wish I could have stayed in the Royal Navy longer