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?

I workedin a tea room in a castle for £2 hour when I was 14. Part of the job involved feeding the tortoise.

Sales assistant in Debenhams. I enjoyed it more than I thought!

Worked as a kennel maid at age 14 for the grand sum of 18 shillings a week. Saved up and bought my first pair of Levi's out of the money!
I really loved that job and wish I'd carried on with it instead of leaving school and working in an office ☹️

Paper round here too, Monday to Saturday.

Weekend waitress in a pub just before I turned 14. I got £2.20 an hour, which was actually not bad at all because high street shops were offering more in the £1.50- £1.80 range. And there were tips!

TBH of the many jobs I've had over the years, waitressing was probably the most fun.

Washing up in a garden centre cafe for £2/hr. I had to work Saturday and Sunday every week!

Paper round delivering free papers locally. I got paid £15 per week and an extra 50p if there were inserts - because I had to put them individually in to each paper. I was about 13?

Next job at 14 was a Saturday girl in a hairdressers. £20 for a days work from 8:30-6. But they bought kebabs for lunch every week which was amazing. Loved that job and learnt a lot about cleaning mirrors and windows which my Mum took full advantage of. Nearly 20 years later one of the hairdressers in the salon still cuts my mum's hair from home.

Parcel delivery company in the offices at 17. £40 a week for 50 hours work including opening up & locking up. I left when he docked three days pay for taking (booked months in advanced and fully signed off) annual leave he thought I hadn't accrued properly. I had. He was a bastard though.

Aged 13. Stable girl. Worked for rides.

Early noughties, I was 12, fruit picking. £1.98 per hour. Backbreaking!

Weekend job in the kitchen at a local sports stadium making cups of tea and coffee, and selling HUGE Wagon Wheel biscuits!
Then I progressed to a Saturday job at a hairdresser's.
Then upward to a Saturday girl at Boots the Chemist!

Aged 16 in Summer 1996, I got a job on the delicatessen at Sainsbury's for £3.45 per hour. I absolutely loved it, and the work was really easy. It's where I learned about cheese salami and prosciutto, I'd never eaten any before then.

For the first month I was there, they used to pay us weekly on a Friday in cash, so we'd have to go up to the cash office to collect our wage in a brown envelope. We were never told why they suddenly changed to bank transfer after that first month, though it's obvious to me now!

Admin assistant in a council housing dept, for a year before starting at medical school. Earned £50 a week, which seemed a lot in 1974! They gave me a job for the next two summer vacations too, which gave me enough savings to buy my first car in fourth year. Sadly, we got no long summer hols after 2nd year- we had to do ten week clinical attachments instead, so no earning potential. Until we qualified, and as exploited junior doctors earned jess per hour at nights and weekends than the hospital cleaner. While working 100 hour weeks. Thankfully those days are gone.

Pharmacists assistant in a tiny local chemist when I was 16. It was SO boring, hardly anyone came in, there’s only so many times you can rearrange the baby food. I think i got about £3 an hour?

Kennels and cattery walking dogs and feeding cats at 14, best job I've ever had

Waitress in local "posh" cafe. Loved it, got to know the regulars. Ended up in the kitchen so it also taught me how to cook and keep a kitchen clean - great life skills.

I think i was 14 or 15 and my first job was on the checkouts at Gateway...i think i got paid £2 something an hour...this would be around 1988/89.

Age 16/17 worked in the china and glass department at the Co-op, before moving to Menswear/Boys' school uniforms then promoted (yippee) to the Cash Office which meant I could sit down. I really loved that job!

I sold balloons at the local fairground for £2.90 an hour. I was 14.

Working on one of the burger vans at north weald market when I was around 13. Don’t miss them 5am starts!!

Waitressing at the age of 7 - we had two waitresses fall ill, and Mum and Dad had a function on. People were very kind and understanding, and some Americans gave me a big tip - $5!

Waitressing aged 16. I used to do the Sunday lunch shift, 12pm-5pm. This was in 2006 and I earned £4.50ph plus tips which wasn't bad.

I actually dropped out of college after 4 months and ended up working there full time until I was 18. I have fond memories of working there, it was a great time.

Working in a soft play place. Mainly doing birthday party food for 5 year olds and lunches

Oh paid NMW aged 18

Coder, working for a web design company.

I was building my own computers as a teenager.