What was your first ever job?

[Pointlessfact]

Mine was at a super market , working in the cafe 6 months , loved it.

[turnipfarmers]

IT system admin.

[WyfOfBathe]

First proper job was in a supermarket when I was a student. I can still remember the boredom and aching feet!

Before that, I did a lot of babysitting and some tutoring. I enjoyed it but the money wasn't reliable.

[PasstheStarmix]

I worked at a cafe and got £3 and hour which I thought was a great deal because my friend worked around the corner at a restaurant and only got £2.80

[MsGameandWatching]

Paper round.
Cleaner.
Saturday job in newsagent.
Shelf stacking.
Babysitting - made loads from that so didn't have to do anything else till I got a real job on leaving school.

[LemonysSnicket]

Waitressing got my dads friend, £40 a night age 13. It was fantastic!

[SmurfOrTerf]

Cake shop
and I feel old I think I got £2.71 for the whole day
but that went a long way in the 70's

[MissingDietCoke]

Paper round from my 13th birthday and then Woolworths from the day after my 16th birthday. Mid 30s now, many of my contemporaries thought my parents were ridiculous and unfair sending me out to work all through school, especially as I had to pay them a portion of my wages from day 1 (more to teach me that you didn't get to keep all your salary as opposed to them actually needing it). Very grateful to them, I have a very strong work ethic and will certainly be encouraging my DCs to do the same.

[Sillybilly1234]

Florist

[madein1995]

First job was technically student ambassador - very ad hoc work
First semi proper job - Tesco temp at Xmas
First full time job - nursery

[GetOutOfMYGarden]

Specsavers from the age of 15. £4 an hour to deal with people shouting at me because they'd broken their own glasses.

[whatstheplanphil]

I picked tomatoes on a saturday morning / hoildays - i think i must have been 16 , there was a good bunch of young people doing it and it was great fun. I remember it being piece work, paid per tray - felt like i was loaded when i got paid !

[SitUboSit]

Little Chef £2.50p/h, I still have a pair of boots I bought from my first twelve paychecks; my husband is not impressed my favourite thing is still those and not him!!!

[halfwitpicker]

B&Q. Had a right laugh.

[steff13]

Bagger at a grocery store age 16-18.

[halfwitpicker]

WTAF... The minimum wage was £4 an hour in 2005?? I was on at least £4 per hour in 1998 at B&Q

[Seren85]

Other than babysitting, pot washer in a local pub-restaurant. Think it was four pound odd an hour aged 16. First actual payslip I got was Tesco. Loved that job.

[IrisApfelRocks]

Interpreter at Sadler Wells theatre for the Russian ballet company. It was awesome. I got to watch Red Giselle from high up bit with the light technician.

[cantfindausername2]

I worked in a doughnut shop. By the time i left at almost 18 i would do the 4am starts alone and make all the doughnuts and muffins. I remember being allowed to take leftovers home at the end of the day. I still love doughnuts.

[Welshmaenad]

I worked in a fruit and veg shop/florist and also the deli next door - both run by a married couple. I loved it. Then I was a waitress in Harry Ramsdens with the natty black dress, white apron and white headband. Did that till I went to uni, it kept my car on the road and me in Saturday night vodka.

[chockaholic72]

On the fish counter at Sainsbury's. When I went to catering college a couple of years later I filleted better than the lecturer and aced fish week.

[speakout]

Usherette at an old style cinema. Took tickets and showed people to their seats. Sold Kia Ora juice, Butterkist and ice cream during the intermission in a tray with a strap around my neck.
I had a torch and would shine it on snogging couples in the back row to make them jump.
Great job.
I saw Jungle Book 37 times.

[Ifailed]

in the 1970s, picking blackcurrants by hand that went to ribena. Got paid 50p per 20 lb tray which would take hours to fill! Also picked strawberries, raspberries, peas, broad beans and apples.

[WhatsGoingOnEh]

I worked in a small sweetshop/cigarette shop. I was 14, it was totally illegal.

Then I cleaned toilets in a pub, was a receptionist in an empty office building, packed tranquillisers in a factory, cleaned toilets in a public lavatory block, washed dishes in a restaurant, worked Saturdays in a jewellery shop, washed hair at a salon, was a bar maid, worked in a greengrocers, worked at a safari park, cold-called, worked on the till at a supermarket... This was all before I went to uni. I changed jobs a lot.

[goingonabearhunt1]

Babysitting from when I was 14, then weekends waitressing in a cafe from 15 ish all through college, then shelf-stacker at Habitat at 18 when I left college. I also used to do odd bits of temp admin work at my step dad's office and at the local college when they needed extra envelope stuffing and so on.

[BetterEatCheese]

Preparing paperwork for a document management firm - sounds glam but was actually just taking staples out before the paperwork went through the scanner