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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

This was prompted by hearing weather forecaster Jim Bacon discussing his first job with Mo Dutta yesterday morning.

What was your first job, when was it and what was your salary?

Discounting the Christmas post and casual fruit picking, my first was as a summer relief Accounts Clerk at Bowaters of Ellesmere Port in 1966. I worked 38 hours per week for the princely sum of £6.

Over to you.

Ian.

BDG · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 202

Hi Ian

My first job was as a Trainee Secretary at Rolls Royce in Bristol in 1974 and my salary was about £15 a week.

I think it was the only time in my life I felt rich, living at home and no worries Very Happy

B XX

Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

I worked in a place that grew plants, we then supplied them to other local nurseries. I think I realised it wasn't the job for me when one day I was trying to retrieve a load of plastic trays. I couldn't reach very well so I used a bamboo cane to try and get the top ones down, the whole lot came down on top of me Embarassed

It didn't hurt as they were not at all heavy but I got told off for not answering the phone, bearing in mind I couldn't get out I thought it was a bit harsh.
I went home that night and never went back, I found another job from the local paper and started the following week, thus began my career in electronics.

SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject:

My very first job at 14, was as a delivery boy for a Wine and Spirit merchant ( and cheese for some reason )
I remember standing "in my place" for ages sometimes, waiting to make a delivery and studying all the bottle labels to make time pass.
The shop was all brown paint, with those clear yellow blinds and bare timber floors too. Lovely smell though..
I had a trade bike and worked for an hour or so after school and Saturday mornings for £1 2/6d in 1966.
I used to live for those treasured words from the white aproned, bald headed, blackrimmed glasses wearing manager... "you might as well go now" YES! Razz

( Then I worked full time at a sea front amusement arcade for £14 per week until 1969 when I left to take up a job as a trainee architectural draughtsman... on £3 per week! good career move.. Laughing

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

As a teenager in 1967 I earned pocket money doing early morning milk deliveries on the Co-Op milk float. I can thank that job for actually hearing the first Radio 2 broadcasts! Wages £1 a week!

Later as a student I did the postman Xmas and summer weeks. I think I was getting £10 a week for that.

First real job after Uni was with Courtaulds as a research chemist £50 a week in 1975, stayed with the same company, different sites, name changes, for 31 years, made redundant with loadsamoney, and get a useful pension, though not enough to retire Confused

John

Minx · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:52 am Post subject:

My first job was a Saturday job working as an assistant in Crown Wallpaper shop. In those days wallpaper came in three varieties, trimmed, semi-trimmed (where the edges were perforated and you knocked the end of each roll with a sharp rap against the counter) or untrimmed, where you had to run it through a machine where you had set the blade-wheels to the appropriate margin. The machine was as old as Methuselah, and I lost count of how many rolls of wallpaper I destroyed as the wheels suddenly veered off setting. I became expert in the qualities of Lincrusta, Anaglypta, woodchip (hell to remove!) and all varieties and uses of paint.

Came in handy later!

SantaFefan · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

My dad had a hardware shop and I remember the wall paper trimming machine.. again, I used to love the smell of those shops - bare boards & Paraffin!
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Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! Very Happy

13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be.

MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

When we were kids my Dad had a pal who ran a hardware shop ( do you ever see these now?).

Every Saturday us kids were bored witless as we had to stand in the shop while my Dad and his mate had a chinwag. I hadn't thought about this for years until I read this ... funny how memories come flooding back!
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

First ever job - Delivery boy for the local co-op
First job as a uni student - Analyst at ICI Wilton
First Proper Job - Applications lab technician Reckitt's Colours. I stayed at Reckitt & Colman for about 29 Years until they made me an offer I daren't refuse.

Now I'm a jobbing analyst. Have Spatula and Safety glasses - will Travel within Yorkshire.
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You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

SantaFefan · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: