Beverleyred
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Joined the Senior Service aged 16 straight from school. Ganges boy me… 24 years later left as a qualified Meteorologist!
What was your first job?
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SmogontheMarsh
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Played too much sport to have time for a paper round; had bar job at uni, and worked for George Fordy on building estate opposite Ragworth (I don't remember the name), and two stints at the chrome works at Urlay Nook as holiday jobs.
First full time job was as a bank clerk for Williams & Glyn bank (now RBS). Lasted 6 months before becoming a trainee computer programmer with Prudential in that there London in 73. They were unsure I'd stick it - spent 25 years there
First full time job was as a bank clerk for Williams & Glyn bank (now RBS). Lasted 6 months before becoming a trainee computer programmer with Prudential in that there London in 73. They were unsure I'd stick it - spent 25 years there
Ignore_Alien_Orders
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My paper round was £1:62 and a half a week. Got a welding apprenticeship when I left school, sacked that because it got in the way of going to matches and gigs.
found out that it became difficult to do all this
on dole money so I got a job stacking supermarket shelves in Stokesley. (A girl I fancied lived there)
found out that it became difficult to do all this
on dole money so I got a job stacking supermarket shelves in Stokesley. (A girl I fancied lived there)
Rishworthian
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Saturday boy at Lonsdales Bakery in Queen Street Redcar. Carted the hot bread pies and cakes across Queen Street and through o The bread shop at the front on High Street ( 7 shillings and six pence)
The summer holidays at Thornaby Town Hall in the Borough Engineers Department ( £8 per week)
Started at Dan's Castle in 1967 in Newcastle ( £980 p.a)
The summer holidays at Thornaby Town Hall in the Borough Engineers Department ( £8 per week)
Started at Dan's Castle in 1967 in Newcastle ( £980 p.a)
Norman_Conquest
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Another one for paper rounds, but my first job was a fiddle job down the BOC, whilst waiting for my apprenticeship to start.
SNOWBANDIT
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Paper Round -late 60's -had to knock the owner up - so I could feed pops chickens on allotment and take ma and pops a cup of tea in bed before school
Proper "man" job would be herding s***y arsed cows.
Proper "man" job would be herding s***y arsed cows.
weststandwally
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Apprentice Electrician BSC at Clay Lane 1972,£9.60 per week.
Arrived in Oz Dec 69 after doing only six months of fourth form in England and having to face starting yet another school to achieve the school certificate.
I had already by the age of fifteen been to school in Redcar, Perth, Sydney, Redcar, Philadelphia ( USA ) and back to Redcar only to end up in Oz once again.
During the summer school holidays here in Oz, I was walking to Coogee beach when I noticed in a butchers shop window a sign seeking a first year apprentice.
I walked in and when the butcher asked me what he could get for me, I said " I've come for the job". So you want to be a butcher do you? was his reply.
Sheepishly, I said yes. He offered his hand and said " See you 7am sharp Monday.
My mam would've strangled me had it not been for my dad who after asking me what time do I start work and after telling him 7am Mon - Thurs - 5am fri and Sat.
He burst out laughing and said to my mam " don't worry pet he'll be pig sick before school goes back".
How wrong he was. He didn't realise that being a beachside suburb, the female customers wore little more than a bikini.
Being a fifteen year old, I was in heaven.
I had already by the age of fifteen been to school in Redcar, Perth, Sydney, Redcar, Philadelphia ( USA ) and back to Redcar only to end up in Oz once again.
During the summer school holidays here in Oz, I was walking to Coogee beach when I noticed in a butchers shop window a sign seeking a first year apprentice.
I walked in and when the butcher asked me what he could get for me, I said " I've come for the job". So you want to be a butcher do you? was his reply.
Sheepishly, I said yes. He offered his hand and said " See you 7am sharp Monday.
My mam would've strangled me had it not been for my dad who after asking me what time do I start work and after telling him 7am Mon - Thurs - 5am fri and Sat.
He burst out laughing and said to my mam " don't worry pet he'll be pig sick before school goes back".
How wrong he was. He didn't realise that being a beachside suburb, the female customers wore little more than a bikini.
Being a fifteen year old, I was in heaven.
Emmersons_BrazillianDong
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1999. Glass collector at the Central pub before I was old enough to serve.
Best job I ever had working there part time
Best job I ever had working there part time
Redwurzel
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I worked for Crossley's builders merchant for 13 months as part of my Business degree- I did most things there, taking orders over the phones, serving on the trade counters, sometimes even loading customers cars and vans, helping the estimator with pricing up large jobs like materials for building a new house. It was one of their biggest and newest depots @ Blyth in Northumberland. They had been taken over by Bowater (a big paper processing and timber company) but still were left to operate as an independent business. Crossleys still had their own bricks works as well as the merchants business. I noticed by 1990 their name had changed to Harcos and I think Harcos had bought the business from Bowater and suspect the Crossley HQ at Elton near Stockton had been sold off. I completed a 13,000 word dissertation on Company takeovers focusing on Bowater/Crossley and Thomas Tilling/BTR - whether they were a success or failure. I met some real characters at the depot, but I leave that for another day.