What was your first job EVER?

[thegreenroom1]

Just for fun.
My first proper summer job was at age 13, it was in a hotel for the carvery lunch service. I was paid 5 an hour and worked 3 or 4 hour shifts 4/5 days a week.

What was your first job?

Supermarket shelf stacking. Bloody awful, I started at 6am and night shift were lazy fuckers who'd leave all the heavy stuff, roll cages full of milk and cheese etc for me to do when I arrived.

At about 12/13 I would buy donuts on the way to school - £1 for 5 and sell them for 50p each

Plus babysitting, manning the snack hut at school at lunch and doing a market research thing each month by post.

I even used to refer friends to babysitting jobs I couldn't do and agree to take a small cut of theirs for setting it up!

I didn't get pocket money so it was especially awesome to earn some money of my own.

Gave me a good work ethic and appreciate saving up and paying stuff in full.

Ended up working my arse off to get experience and setting up my business at 26.

Fruit picking when I was 17. They paid £1/ hour at the time and I felt so rich!!

Working at KFC when I was 15, babysitting before that. Was paid AUD$ 5 an hour!

Two days at Liberty (store in london) wearing a straw hat and stripy apron handing out samples of mulled wine and selling mulled wine kits ...when I was 15.

I was a mushroom picker in dark sheds, filled with wooden raised beds. £2:85 per hour. Proper clicking in and out machine. Some people had been there years and were so fast, they earnt bonus money for that.

Babysitting age 11

Worked at a riding stables, for free aged 13 in return for 1 x lesson! I hated it as it was so bitchy, eventually got my own horse and worked on the livery yard instead

Tattie-picking aged 12. It was backbreaking, dirty, cold wet and I just loved it. Got picked up with my mates and driven to the fields in a bogey towed by a tractor . 50p an hour. Lasted for the 2 week October holidays.

Cleaning, shopping and childcare for a relative for £5 every Saturday aged 13. And then the giddy heights of £1.24 an hour as a Saturday assistant in a now-defunct department store when I hit 15.

Saturdays in Julian Graves. Not sure how widespread a chain they were. Sold all kind of yoghurt covered raisins, Bombay mix and similar snacks plus herbs and spices. I got £1.90 an hour.

Avon calling! It was the only job I could get at 14 that wasn't a paper round (which my dad wouldn't let me do)

Waitressing age 14 at a tearoom. It was in a very upmarket village,a tourist spot where lots of overseas coaches used to stop.
It was disgusting and filthy,the things I saw put me off going to those sorts of places. The very posh customers who would frequent the place most days would have been horrified if they saw what went on in the kitchen. I was paid £15 for working 8am - 6.30pm and all tips had to be given to the pervy owner. I worked Saturday and Sundays and all week during school holidays,I lasted there for just under a year and the owner told me I would never get a job anywhere again when I told him I was leaving! I served him at my first supermarket job about 6 weeks later!

Newspaper round age 13/14.
It was the free local papers that needed to be delivered on a Thursday/Friday, sometime with flyers that you had to stick in 250 odd papers.
I think I got about £5 a week.

Saturday job on a delicatessen stall on the market at 13. I was paid about £2.50 an hour.

Masseuse

Paper round aged 13.

I remember that if my wage packet was slim and light weight I was quids in because that meant it had an actual fiver in it!

McDonalds age 16

Baby sitting was probably the first job, but first proper 'Saturday' job I was 15 and got the Christmas temp job in Woolworth's.
On the record bar. It was brilliant!! Also worked late night Thursday's after school and got kept on after Christmas so stayed a good couple of years or so.
I can't really remember how much I was paid but it was pretty decent. I used to receive pay in a proper little pay packet envelope.

Strawberry picking over the summer when I was about 15. Back breaking work and you got paid by weight of the fruit you'd picked Which was never more than about £15 a day Back in the mid '90's. probably because I ate most of them.

Cashier at a burger place. Floor was slippery.

Babysitting for people my mum knew from probably about 14.
First proper job was in the cafe at a motorway service station (we lived within walking distance), serving food, doing the tills, clearing tables etc.

Waiting on in a chain cafe for £2.87 per hour, age 16/17. I also did some babysitting as a sideline. I didn't last long before being seduced by the bright lights and better wages of a supermarket!

@backseatcookers
As I was reading your posts I was wondering if you ended up with your own business. And you did!

Washing up in a boarding house at a well known public school. Cant remember my pay but they gave us a free lunch (aka school dinner) in part payment.