What was your very first proper job?

My first job was as a shop assistant in the camera section of a large chemist shop (similar to Boots). That was while studying at art college. Pay was rubbish but it helped eek out the amount of money I got as a student & was infinitely more fun than working the unsociable hours in a pub
My first "real" job was as a junior photographic assistant after I'd finished college. I think the pay was about $30.00 a week & as much black & white film as I wanted The developing & printing was done in the hours after work.

 

same as you - trainee mechanic working on the lorries at Armitage Shanks.

 

working jeweller for three years 16-19...

that was a waste of time ,but the £28 a week was good money..

 

From 14 I worked in a case on the seafront 2.50 an hr, then on to wimpy at 15. Then at 16 I went to Woolies.

 

I started life off on YTS young thick and stoopid at a large car parts retailer in the late 80's. My first real job after that was a sales person at a local hydraulics company working out off a lot larger quarry's in the south west. Then went on to work with one of their competitors and got threatened with legal action if I took the customers with me, a lot off the customers came over with me.
Spent most off my working years being a van sales person for a heating spare company doing about 70k miles a year.
Now I go to work and play and get paid for it.

 

Working on YTS for a local tree surgeon. crappy money, but out in the woods playing with chainsaws and axes and tractors at the age of 16 . The first 3 months toughened me up - virtually nonstop cutting and splitting of logs - stockpiling for winter!

 

I was a promotions girl in a large department store, promoting Clinque beauty products.

 

When I was 14 I started work for the Adam and Eve ( smallest pub in norwich) washing up in the kitchens, salad prepartion and waitressing at the weekends and the holidays, soon I was helping in the main cooking and my wages went up to £30 a day, I was loaded, when 18 ( I was then at art school) I took on a second job serving beer at the Reindeer in Norwich and left the Adam and Eve within in weeks, due to how Colin treated some of my friends I worked with. Sadly Colin , has died in recent years, he could be horrid to some of his staff but to me and Zoe he was always lovely.

 

Got put on a YOP (YTS of its day) by the careers office at 16 - 6 months working in the tax office for £21.50 per week. Hated it (though the money was nice) - working with stuffy old folk who were so set in their ways it was unbelievable. After the 6 months I went back to the careers office and they asked how I got on. I told them I hadn't liked it but had learnt I didn't want to work in an office. They said - aha - we've got the ideal job for you then. It was working as assistant stock controller in the office of an insulation distribution company. IN AN OFFICE....

Stuck with that for 3 years, then the 'career' story gets a bit complicated. Had a career break for University 1999 - 2003, with a hope of change on the career front - never happened. Had a shorter career break for travelling last winter. Came back thinking - I really really don't want to work in an office. Guess what I do now ... yep. *sigh* That's why I never want to go to work - I'm stuck in the wrong career.

Sorry - turned into a rant ...

 

Define "proper"? Do you mean permanent? Full time? I spent most of my working life up to about the age of 26 having never had a permanent full time job.

 

If there's no photos it didn't happen.

 

I hated school so took the first thing offered, trainee draftsman in a Heat & Vent firm. I never wanted to see the inside of another school again, three months into the job they signed me up at Basford Hall College two years of 12 hour days sat in a class room, I used to travel from Leicester via bus, train, then another bus to be at Basford for 9am, used to arrive home in Leicester on the train to find out I had missed the last bus & then walking home I hated it

Got made redundant after 6 months but managed to get another job with another H&V firm, continued with college & got my qualifications, not that I have ever used what I learn't !!!

 

YTS at Hall Thermotank. Instead of the Engineering Apprenticeship I had attained at Chatham Dockyard. Thatcher closed the dockyard just before I was about to start. I hope hell burns the witch.

 

First go5 a sat job at 16 in a kitchen... im still there now... It's the third time ive been back haha it helps whilst im a student... I spent nearly 2 years as a carer working 80 hour weeks for just over a grand a month... tax took a stupid amount from me

that was my first proper full time job... I enjoyed being a carer but the hours were just rubbish....

 

Technician apprentice,£16/week but I abandoned that part way through to go and squat in London and play in a punk band which was more fun. I got than £16/week signing on so it was an easy choice.

 

First proper job was with Boots. Used to work in all my uni holidays then had to do a year after graduation to be fully qualified. Worked for them up until we bought our business. So that is 2 jobs in 36 years.

 

Apprentice at HallThermotank. Got over that and went to sea

 

apprentice electrician £40 a week in 1989