First: 1980 - fabric stall on Wakey market. My mam worked in tailoring & bought a lot of stuff from him. Gave me a job before & after school on Fridays, helping him set the stall up & pack it away. Bloody heavy them big rolls. Current: studio director, BBC Sport. Mainly football - MOTD, Final Score etc, plus major events.... Olympics and some cricket. Was staff (33 years) now freelance.
First: Gas Meter reader (analogue) when I was at 6th Form College. First 'proper' job: Junior Production Planner at BP Darton (formerly BXL), planning film extrusion and Flexographic print. That got me into the packaging industry, which ultimately led to my current job. Current: Co-founder and Managing Director of a global packaging design and production agency, with over 100 people on the team now.
Paper boy for the newsagents on Sackville St. (Left) Scrubber down for Mitchells fish stall on Barnsley market (Sacked, fell for the old half crown under the chopping board trick) Assistant storeman then machine operator at Tin 'ole ( Sacked, wrecked too many tin trays) Apprentice at Samuel Fox Belmont, Stocksbridge (Sacked, for (as it said on my report) too much f**king abart) Assistant storeman at British Leyland garage, Hudderfield Rd. (Sacked, being rude to the boss) Avionics Technician, RAF (Left, Time served) Computer field engineer, Measurex (Left) Avionics Technician, Saudi Airforce (Left) Computer field engineer, TIS Ltd (Left) IT Manager, Law firm in Taunton (Left) IT Manager, DHL Saudi Arabia (Left) Data Centre manager, AT&T (Left) Operations Manager, Saudi Aramco, (Left) Project manager, Vodafone (VR) Various contracts Programme Manager, Verizon (Retired) Occasional odd job man, Bucklebury farm park. CV available on request.
This thread has been brilliant. No arguing or confrontation, just a good insight into what other BBSers have done with their working lives.
If you're ever in the market for some end user training/Phishing sims drop me a pm First: Working on Rotherham Market for a relative Current: BDM at a Cyber Security training company
left school 1965 Coal Miner up to 1990 due to Mrs. Thatcher - Barnsley Council social services 1991 up to 2011 made redundant due to austerity cuts. Looked after mi sen after that on the land I had at the time made a few trailers bread some livestock and dealt in Antiques.
First part time job: Call centre (worked there for about two weeks at uni and quit. Wasn't very nice trying to scam people into buying life insurance) First proper job: Postman Current job: Mental Health Researcher