What was your first job?

Yts at Lyons bakery when I was 16,eventually got a full time contract and been there ever since.

 

Was it your job to make all the apprentices gay or something?

 

I used to love nights out at the post office when I was at college, me and a few mates used to go every week, Nicky Eaden and Dave Watson included. Great times!

 

delivered the free independent newspaper, did 2 rounds in penistone for 2 years! used to get paid more depending on how many leaflets i had to shove in!

then worked for john hall greengrocers in hoyland. did just Saturday morning on penistone market while at school. then worked all week for 100quid! bought and insured my first car from these wages, an x reg green mini.

left there and worked for Iceland as a sales manager, 6 months later deputy store manager, then managed shops for them for 8 years. moved to Madagascar for a year as a project manager. came back worked in a printers packing slimming world magazines.
became store manager at somerfield in their flagship nottingham store

then left and started my own cafe business!

 

Working in a Slaughterhuose

At Barnsley Abattoir just across the road from Oakwell. Started in the Hot Summer of 1976, Bloody hard work as well. I collected 2 churns of blood a day for Albert Hirst for his black pudding. Emptying the contents of the bellies into the **** cart than washing them out and hanging them to dry for the tripe-man to collect. Hanging up the Offals for the meat Inspector to inspect and then putting them away in the big fridges. I was paid £20 per week gross. I left to go into the pit for a little extra money. £7 a week more was a lot when you were earning so little.
Still don't know how I stuck it our for 9 months but I did.

 

Saturday job - Cleaning at Fosters bakery
First proper job - Nuclear decommisioning work for Atkins in Whitehaven

Windscale had nothing on the bakery in terms of hazards to health.

 

Delivering Rotherham Record in Wath.....First proper job loading and unloading vans at Albion Clothes West Melton.

 

Bet you were on tip toes to paint skirting boards !!!

 

Aldham house paper round from Mick Rudkins paper shop up Hough Lane.

Fridays were a right ******* with SYT and the chron - and that guy by the Alma who only got a paper on Friday - times educational supplement. hated him.


First proper job - installing alarms for swift alarms on wombwell. Sitting in attics all days breathing tonnes of crap. Soon learned a bit of money now wasn't going to compensate for a **** career forever.

Went back to college - uni - etc to get a proper education.

 

Cleaner at SR Gents as a student at Barnsley College.

First proper job, junior production planner at the now defunct BP flexographic printing plant at Darton.

 

Hired assassin, **** pay, good job satisfaction.

 

Onion peeler. Hazelwood's in Carlton.

I cried a lot.

 

Apart from a paper round, glass collector in Silvers and barman in Whispers (don't count those as part-time) and a placement student (part of the course but some of the time was using a laser to cut holes in condoms and femidoms). My first job was operating an aluminium furnace at LSM in Rotherham. Lasted four weeks, splashed molten aluminium up my leg and walked out for a 50% pay cut to work in an office...

 

That's crazy. How's your leg?

 

Worked for Morrisons as a general assistant on the product dept.

Now I am a Supply Chain Analyst for Morrisons up at their Head office....

 

Worked for Morrisons as a general assistant on the product dept.

Now I am a Supply Chain Analyst for Morrisons up at their Head office....

 

You can say that again.

 

Paper boy, office junior and now am a carer!!

 

Shop assistant at Marks & Spencer. Three hours on an evening and four hours Satdi morning.

Some great perks too.

 

Driver's mate/porter with Andrew Hodgson's Removals and Storage.