What was your first ever job?

[Pointlessfact]

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

[YassQueen]

Waitressing. I was 12 (this was 11 years ago) and I hated it. The next summer I got a job on a holiday park instead in the fast food kiosk and absolutely loved it. It was family-run, I was treated like an adult, the door staff looked out for me and stopped anyone harrassing me at night, I got free food, they bought me lovely birthday presents and I was paid well. I was earning over £1000 a summer. I loved it.

[purpleleotard]

Working in a factory making dental equipment, drills, chairs, pliers etc.
I spent weeks making drill blanks for 37p per hour

[harshbuttrue1980]

Summer job in a newsagents shop. OK job, but they gave me split shifts - 6 until 10 and then 1 until 5. I didn't have a car so couldn't go home and just had to hang around the town centre so it made it a long day.

[BornInALighthouse]

Making the beds in a chalet park for a couple of summers then an outdoor shop at weekends.

[BettyCatLover]

Saturday job in local newsagent.

[PumpkinPie2016]

Waitress in a large restaurant. I was 14 so still at school. Kept waitressing all through my student days.

At the time it was mostly fine although I wouldn't want to do it now - long, unsolvable hours and sometimes miserable customers!

[Glumglowworm]

Working in a petrol station during summers while I was at university

I enjoyed it tbh, especially the 2nd year I did it as I worked all evenings, mostly with the same girl and we had a laugh.

[dementedma]

Saturday checkout in Littlewoods, in the days when they sold food - and when Littlewoods existed!

[EbonyJade]

First part time job was Sainsbury's.

First full time was receptionist for a software company in my late teens.

[Lucyccfc]

I had a round, selling lottery tickets for my local football club. Used to love Christmas and the tips. Council estate houses - used to get really good tips and they always have me a cut of their winnings. Owners of the big houses on the private estates were so tight.

[LloydColeandtheCoconuts]

Chessington World of Adventures. In a shop that sold sandwiches and ‘Dunkin Donuts!’ I worked there when I was 15. I used to love it! I had a laugh with the staff and ate my way through so many doughnuts too!

[Busybusybust]

Working in the bread/cake shop part of Betty’s cafe. If any of the cakes came in damaged we were allowed to eat them on our breaks. Amazing how many times my thumb slipped!

[Callaird]

Worked in my parents bakery, in the shop on a Saturday and in the bake house for an hour after school, from 12 years old for £1.20 an hour.

From 13 I babysat for parents in the village and at 14 I picked up 2 children from nursery at 4pm, took them home and played and bathed them until 7 when mum got home.

[user1486076969]

A Groom (as in horses).

[BillyAndTheSillies]

Started off with a paper round but my first "proper job" was a Saturday girl in a hairdressers. Absolutely loved it. £20 for 9 hours on my feet (plus tips) which was more than enough for a Saturday night out on the tiles.

[ShyOyster]

Admin job at a car selling place. I was only 17 and really had no idea that the guy employed me only to be an ornament in his office. I only lasted a month, he paid me a huge bonus because apparently his sells rocketed thanks to my presence. It made me feel very uneasy and I left. It paid for an AMAZING holiday though

[EnglishRose13]

Brantano. Worst job with by far the worst manager I've ever had.

[stopfuckingshoutingatme]

A shoe shop . Exhausting and had a wierd percent manager

A Theme of most of my young jobs funnily enough

[user1497863568]

Fish and chip shop over 25 years ago. They had me on the equivalent of £13 an hour by the end of my 4 year stint there - working weekends and school/uni holidays. Such a lovely hardworking Greek family - I look at that time very fondly.