What was your first job?

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    Making double glazed windows for Euroglaze at tarn end before they changed it, chantry video shop on corner across from wheat sheaf pub
     
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    Glass operative at Quasimodo's...
     
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    Night shift at a BP garage. Fetching pasties for drunken idiots.
     
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    Saturday job in Halfords - I used to get just over £1 an hour and felt minted
    First full time job electronics engineer ar Racal Defence Radar and Displays in Tolworth
     
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    When I was 16 I was a wine waiter at Barnsley Co-op banqueting hall, friday and saturday nights.
     
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    Junior Radio Electrician Royal Navy at 15 yrs 6mths old. First pay day was ten and 6, and a quid to my mum. Always was a lousy wage but visited places and did stuff people usually only dream about .
     
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    Apart from a paper round, which paid 1 pound per day, working in a pork pie factory putting pork pies into boxes on repeat for 8 hours per day. Managed 5 weeks. An absolute shitter of a job.
     
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    Van drivers mate for curry's
     
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    Summer job on the production line at Lyons Bakery. Totally boring. One day, I had to sit on a stool for 8 hours. I had a stick in my hand. If the fruit cake got stuck on the belt I had to give it a nudge.

    Amazed me how the whole day used to revolve around breaks. If the line before didn't come back from their break on time, our line would do the same ... End result, cakes falling off the end of the line. No one seemed to care, and everyone seemed to smoke.
     
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    Junior seaman radar in the Royal Navy. Ran away to sea aged 16, had never done a days official work before (some would say I've not done one since either!)
     
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    worked on loading dock at old co-op laundry then van lad then they put me thru my test and got my own delivery round.
     
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    31 and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, sort of fell into something which doesn't pay too badly in Barnsley terms, but it's not gonna buy me the big detached house in Holmfirth that I've been aspiring to!
     
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    Two years clerical trainee moving around different departments in stocksbridge steel works, then I got a proper job in stores office and it's been down hill ever since.
     
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    painter and decorator for 3 months until I got my start date for the pit
     
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    Shop assistant eh kanecat.
     
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    Except for a paper round between 14 and 17 years old l was our local milkman. Dying trade that.

    Did me world of good
     
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    First job was working in Argos at Christmas, lost count of how many stressed old women swore at me that year! :D

    Still in my first "proper" job, been there now for 7 and a half years, repairing power tools for the construction industry.
     
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    Mining Craft Apprentice. This position, when training was complete, would lead to a job as a Deputy or even Overman :D

    The rigorous training for this position involve sitting at a "Button". When the conveyor leading from yours started you pressed your "Button" to start your conveyor. When the conveyor leading from yours stopped you then pressed your "Button" to stop yours.

    Hours of fun :rolleyes:
     
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