to think that most of us have worked behind a bar/ in a factory/supermarket/ as a cleaner at some point, HAVEN'T we?????

[bejeezus]

Came up in conversation today in the office, that I have worked as a barmaid; my colleagues where and I was equally that non of them have...I thought EVERYONE had worked behind a bar at some point in their life???

Ive had variousjobsinmylife, including factory work, working in kitchens, dog kennels, cleaning, callcentres; and now Im a professional

it gotme thinking--i went to uni and worked holidays/ evenings and weekends...now i think about it, hardly anyone else did that!

Am reading 'Chavs' at the minute and the author makes that very point....very large majorityof politicians have never done that kind of job and so cannot relate to the working classes AT ALL. It really hit home, how very far removed from normal folk, politicians are these days

But,most of yous have done/do these kind ofjobs-right?

[Taffeta]

No, never.

[IAmSherlocked]

I have worked:

in a newsagents
in a restaurant
in a pub
in 'housekeeping' at my college during the holidays (when it was used for conferences, etc) - included cleaning, making up rooms and waitressing

and am now a teacher!

[ABitSnowyOutside]

yes

yanbu

[noblegiraffe]

I've never worked in a bar but have worked in a shop and also cold-called double glazing sales. IMO people who haven't done jobs like that have been mollycoddled by their parents so haven't needed to.

[Devora]

I would think so, yes. Personally I've never done bar work, but I've cleaned toilets and offices and done breakfast waitressing in a B&B. I would assume you were probably quite posh if you had NEVER done that kind of work.

[redlac]

Worked in a shop when I was 15 then been in full time employment since I was 16 so never done bar work. My sister who did go to UNO did however work in a bar.

[EdlessAllenPoe]

i know some people who've never done paid work of any kind.

but yes i have done most of the jobs of which you speak.

[Tee2072]

I've never worked behind a bar. I have worked in a supermarket.

And that is absolutely the problem with today's politicians. And yesterday's and the day before that and the day before that...

[PuggyMum]

I have. First job at 12 washing up in a cafe (and toilets), then chip shop at 14 (till 21 all through college and when I first started actual work as the pay was shite!), bar work on a Sunday from being about 17 and even now I have a professional job I'm not too above pulling pints in my sisters pub if she gets let down.

All these jobs I would go back to in a heartbeat if needs must or the pay was as good as my day job!

[thegreylady]

No never but I once did the Christmas post delivery when I was a student.

[peugotgringo]

Yes, and I LOVED them.

I worked in pubs and restaurants, continued to do so part time even after going into full time work.

And right now, i'd love to work in a supermarket - especially on the tills, i've always fancied it!

[TheFallenMadonna]

When I was at school and while I was a student I worked in Boots, John Menzies, as a waitress and in a loudspeaker factory. I also temped in an office and spent a summer collecting and counting spider mites on hop plants.

[LackaDAISYcal]

Yes, bar and supermarket as a student, shop work/bar work between degree and first graduate job, and recently shop work and now twighlight home care (glorified cleaner) as we can't afford the childcare for me to go back to my full time professional job. I thought I was done earning minimum wage

[IDismyname]

I worked as a waitress for 4 years, and then as a barmaid for another 3. My waitressing job started aged 14 (well, it was friends of my parents who ran the restaurant and who gave me a lift home)
I bought my first mini hifi system with all the money I earnt.

I loved waitressing. All the tips....:)

[montymum]

I have worked in a shoe shop, behind a bar, as a waitress and as a cleaner all in my school/uni days. I am now a teacher too.

[TheCountessOlenska]

Yes, I've done all of those jobs - and I work in a shop at the moment. (And I have a degree, just not a very high flier I guess )

[2shoes]

I have been
a barmaid
a fishmonger
a shop worked
a receptionist
a call girl.


Oh ok not really the last one, I was a telephone operator, but bruv told his mate s I was a call girl

[Winkly]

Oh yes. I loved bar work, in the first bar I worked in. The next bar was as rough as fuck, I quit on the second occasion I found myself hiding behind the bar from the flying bottles when it all kicked off.

I lost loads of weight when I was a cleaner in a hotel.

[allthequeensmen]

Yep, 2 cleaning jobs, kitchen work once and barmaid in a working men's club from about 16 - 22 alongside studying.

[HavePatience]

No... I didn't have a job as a teen, then worked in a nursery toddler room through university (around course hours - 2 hours per day/ 3x per week) and trained to be a teacher, so got a job teaching straight out of Uni. I've never had a job like you describe. Perhaps the nursery work is considered that for me?

[Bunbaker]

No to all of those jobs, but when I was at school I did a paper round and had a Saturday job in a DIY shop, then at BHS.

[diabolo]

At 14 I worked Saturdays in the local cake shop (free cakes to take home if there were any left )

When I was 16 and at college I switched to the small local supermarket and did several weekday evenings and Saturdays, just stacking shelves or on the till.

I think it hugely depends on your family's work ethic, and of course, if you need or want the extra money.

[LineRunner]

Shop
Bar
Agricultural work

All before university

[PersonalClown]

Oh yeah.

Paper rounds
Kitchen assistant in a pub
Hospital cleaner
Shop work