What was your first job and your current?

Nice to talk to you without our todgers out

I'll let you do the explaining

 

Mount bog. Is allus a good place for a quick chat lol. .

 

First job - general kitchen skivvy in a butchers
Ballsd up my a levels a bit so switched to a IT degree at a polytechnic.
First full time job - database administrator at a hospital
Current job- managing database administrators!

Money wise, ballsing up my A levels was probably the best thing that could have happened to me! I was lucky to be at the start of the IT revolution so it was fairly easy to get into - I doubt I’d be able to do it now - would need way better A levels including maths ( which I didn’t do).

 

Started as a Sat lad at the Co Op on Wellington St in '84, the manager and assistant used to bugger off to Oakwell and leave me in charge, seems easy enough I thought, so went into retailing and stayed there, through four companies my whole working life. Did 25 years at Aldi before retiring a couple of years ago, just short of 55. Start a pension at 18 would be my advice and any spare cash, get a good % of it put away, life's for living whilst your still able enough to enjoy it.

 

It nivver did George Micheal any harm!

 

I can recommend someone to you?
Had to pack in the building work this year after an accident.

 

Glass bottle packer.

Resource manager for an ambulance service.

 

Here's the link Dj, for the Highlander thread, which was 9 months ago now!.
And remember... there can be only ONE!!.

https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/highlander-on-the-bbc.326869/#post-3222128

 

My first job was in a supermarket in Normy, pratting about on the shelves at night time lol.
And my current job, which is also on nights, is at the Gxo alcoholic drinks site in Normy.
They pay me with beer and lager lol, that's my wages, rather than money!.

 

Ha! I once fell asleep on the toilet in there. Not when I was working, mind. I’d gone out, even though I felt awful. I was full of cold with a blocked nose. We’d only been in there half an hour when my mates finished their pint and saw I still had a full one. It was to difficult and painful to swallow with my blocked nose. I was sober, went to the toilet and rested my elbows on my knees and chin don my hands and somehow managed to sleep from about 11:30 until 3am, when a knock on the door from the bouncer woke me up. Pretty amazing that nobody else banged on the door in all that time, or that I didn’t fall over, as it’s an odd position for a 3 and a half hour kip. With my nose as blocked as it was I was probably making a racket too.

Anyway, as I was leaving, it being 3am, I bumped into a couple of the lads, who said they didn’t even realise I was on that night. I managed to get away with saying I’d been upstairs and joined them in the queue for the burger van, which used to stay open till 3, as he knew all the staff would be over to him. If I close my eyes I can still taste those burgers 36-37 years later!

The next day at 6th form I told my mates what happened and asked why none of them came to look for me. “We thought you’d pulled” was the answer. Despite me having never ‘pulled’ in there before, looking like death warmed up and sounding like the bloke on the Tunes advert who was trying to buy a second class return to Nottingham. Still, at least I felt a bit better the next morning, as I got an unexpected 3 and a half hour kip and I didn’t have a hangover!

 

QUOTE="Acido Tyke, post: 3352758, member: 120887"]My first job was in a supermarket in Normy, pratting about on the shelves at night time lol.
And my current job, which is also on nights, is at the Gxo alcoholic drinks site in Normy.
They pay me with beer and lager lol, that's my wages, rather than money!. [/QUOTE]

You can tell its early, I thought it said you worked in a supermarket in Normandy!

My first thoughts were "jesus, I bet they didn't sell much while the Nazi's were bombing".

 

Started young with a paper round (580 free papers and leaflets a week - 1p per paper, 0.5p per leaflet!) where I lived in Ossett. I also worked various retail jobs as a teenager while still at school and university.

When studying I wanted to be a teacher, but changed my mind while taking a PGCE and realising it wasn't much the same as still being at school.

My first post-graduation job was temping for the Insolvency Service, then a stockbrokers in Newcastle. I think I was paid about £14K/annum.

From there I applied for a graduate scheme in London, got moved around lots of different roles, and ended up in economic development. After an ironic redundancy, I relocated to my wife's 'home' in the East Midlands and started working as a Business Analyst - I genuinely chose this new career by googling 'most pay for least stress'.

I now work in higher education managing a number of mini mes and occasionally pondering becoming a counsellor/therapist.

 

First job -Trainee Cost Accountant. Firth Brown Tools Ltd, Sheffield.

Last Job - Regional Finance & Corporate Services Manager, Environment Agency Thames Region, Reading.

 

First part time job I was a paint mixer at b&q stairfoot until it closed down.

First proper job was on scaffolding near Grimsby, being a 17 year old fresh from dropping out of college thinking you know the world to going to work with proper rough, experienced men who's spent the last 30 years throwing scaffolding tube about was a massive eye opening experience for me. 10 years living away from Barnsley in various places such as King's Lynn, Shetland and Groningren and working with such individuals really does ingrain vital life lessons into you.

Now I work for a gas company in the offices designing pipes and where they need to be laid in the country. It's less pay and more mundane than scaffolding but if I'd have stayed on the same road I wouldn't have met my fiancee and my body would be absolutely broken, there were many 40+ year old lads on there who were needing corrective surgery on joints and digits due to the harsh work. I also work from home so that's a big plus too.

 

Plenty of potential clients on here, LOL!

 

First ever job was in a supermarket when I was 16, to earn some money to pay for going to Uni.

Ended up by chance in the debt industry after Uni as I didn't know what to do, ended up settling into mortgage advice - related in a fair few respects.

 

First paid job - farmworker in Kent. I only went to see relatives and have a holiday after school, found myself there for a while longer than first thought.

Current (post-retirement/part-time job) - shop floor worker in a supermarket - physicality, sociality and a little extra cash to help soften the blow of winter fuel allowance being stolen.

 

Started making cricket bats (wade and ellis) Worsbrough. Nice job shocking pay.
Apprentice, then joiner 25 yrs, then construction site manager 15yrs. Then back to joiner. Now retired, other than a few jobs when I want.

 

You won't have to work much to replace winter fuel allowance.