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?

Babysitting 4 brothers (all under 5 years old!) after school for an hour and half a few days a week. I was 13! ...and potato picking £1 ph in the school holidays.

A now defunct Handbag/Luggage high st shop for the princely sum of £2.16 per hour aged 15.
I was "headhunted" 😂 after about 9 months to earn £3 ph at soft play centre managed by my best friend's sister where I worked on and off til I finished uni.

Picking mushrooms up an 8 foot ladder (they were grown in big stacked trays) for 90p an hour at aged 13.

Sports direct when I had just turned 16. Think it was something like £4 an hour...

I worked in a library for 3hrs every second Saturday. I was paid the princely sum of NZ$12

McDonald's for £3.40 an hour when I was 16 in 1997. At the time that was £1 an hour more than clothes shops were paying and I loved it there. Saw me through A levels and most of uni that job and made some good friends.

Working in a shoe shop on Saturdays.

Playing the clarinet as part of the local jazz band at a hotel one evening age 11. - I was paid £20 for the evening!

Superdrug checkouts and shelf stacking for £2.40 an hour at the age of 16. Loved it. First bit of independence. Spent most of my wages in the shop on make up and toiletries though! Smoking was still allowed in the staff room at the time. Seems so weird to think it now.

McDonald’s aged 17. They hated my guts and gave me about one shift a month! Sad part is nowhere near to being the wrost job I have had since 😂

I was a volunteer for my local council since 13-17, but my first real job was as a lifeguard, it was awful they left me on my own for 12 hours shifts and when I left they never paid me and still owe me hundreds of pounds

A clown. I was 13.

I earned an enormous £1 an hour seeking Ice cream from a cart on the middle of a busy tourist town. Commission was a penny per cone. Oh, and I got a free lunch at the restaurant that owned the cart :) .

*selling ice cream. Obvs.

I did a few odd temp jobs the summer I was 15, as my brothers then girlfriend now wife worked for a temp agency.
So I washed up in a greasy spoon cafe, did stock checking for WH Smith, random ad hoc things like that.

Then working as a barmaid through uni

Artist's model for students at Dudley Tech. 1990. It was over £12 per hour, more if you did it nude. (I didn't).

I was really lucky with my first job. It was in a veterinary practice working some evenings and a Sunday on reception.

I was 14, I think?

Postal worker aged 18. I was the only female in the depot. Other colleagues were slimy and I had sexual comments directed at me daily.

After 4 or so months, I ended up losing my job. I was accused of something but they could provide no evidence.

Paper rounds oh....12 ish

Receptionist at a chiropractor—quack—. They were vile. My bf occasionally picked me up dropped me off at the corner, so not in sight of the office. I got bollocked for bringing the practice into disrepute for giving him a peck on the cheek. Meanwhile quack and Mrs used to have a quicky in the consultation room at lunch. No they didn’t lock the door.