Countdown to Christmas 2020 (Thread 11): The One with the Three Freezers

[NoWordForFluffy]

New thread again. Doesn't seem 5 minutes since the last one! 😂

Crazy Not sure how I remember it. I remember the date of starting my 2nd job too, as it was my 18th birthday 😁

I started my first graduate job on 10.09.01, the day before 9/11. My second afternoon was spent trying to get information on the internet, which crashed!

My first day of work was supposed to be 1st May 2004 my dm birthday. But the day before I went to a concert and had KFC on he way home. I was as sick as a dog.

@NoWordForFluffy

I started my first graduate job on 10.09.01, the day before 9/11. My second afternoon was spent trying to get information on the internet, which crashed!

I was still at school then

I had 2 children 👵🏻

I remember my first graduate job as it was the Tuesday after the June bank holiday weekend, and I had got engaged that weekend!!

And my current job I remember because my 1 year anniversary of arriving (so the day I came off probation) was my first day back in the office after our (short) honeymoon - 10 days after we got married. I started here over 21 years ago now - mostly great but this week has me scratching my head slightly at the pace and expectations....about to take off for an hour on a bike instead of lunch as last nights' downpour has moved on so there is sunshine but more downpours expected over the weekend. My head is utterly melted this week!!

(I was on my first ever overseas trip for work to the UK on 9/11, and there were no mobile phones those days, and only 2 payphones in the student halls we were staying in for a large conference).

I was still at school then

Make a few of us feel really old then, why dontcha?!

Most -I agree a supportive head makes a huge difference.
I am feeling v old with all these first days at work - mine feels like a 5 minutes ago but was actually autumn 1988!
For today Friday treat I have ordered the Macmillan Advent calendar from Boots as it is one of the star gifts. I know it might be reduced more later but last year's was good and there is no M&S one. It is a shame it's so early- the M&S launch in Nov felt more timely.

I left school in 2007, got my first graduate job in 2012

Most I must be a year older than you. I left school in 2006.

@BiddyPop

I was still at school then

Make a few of us feel really old then, why dontcha?!

I thought that too.

DH remembers my birthday and our wedding anniversary (same day - I made it easy for him) as it happens at the beginning of the Cheltenham 🏇🏻 Festival. He got to the Gold Cup one year before the penny dropped - only 5 days late.🤦🏻‍♀️😂

most you as well?
How can so many of you be so blinkin' young ?!!? 🤷🏻‍♀️😱

Just back, that was such a good idea, I feel wiped but brain less 😜😜😜 than it was.

I don't think I'm young - I left school in 2001 and was in college when 9/11 happened.
I've never had a graduate job - my degree isnt much use so I came home, spent the next 18 months too ill to work so kept trying different part time things. Didn't get a decent job until I was mid 20s - but I have worked in some capacity since I was 15.

I'm still on track for my 3pm finish and I forgot my bonus was being paid today 🥳

DH is going to do the food shopping after work so I think I'm going to walk the dog (in the pouring rain) then stick tea on (pork chop, roasties, veg, gravy) before a rock & roll Friday evening cross stitching / watching a film.

Crazy trust me 😉
When your next-but-one birthday begins with a 5 (and isn't just 5😁) anyone starting with a 3 is young. 😭🙊

I'm too creaky to be young! My next birthday is a palindrome too. Why is definitely rolling toward the next decade though! 😂😂

I started secondary in 1988 and had an aborted start at uni in 95 before going back in 97. I also tried London after graduating, but didn't last. I was living in Nottingham when I accidentally got the graduate job back home!

Fluffy it is a good job I love you. Thanks for the old git reminder! 😂 I started work in July 1990.

OOh, I started secondary in 1987....still feel old, but not so out on my own [laughingtears]

@BiddyPop

OOh, I started secondary in 1987....still feel old, but not so out on my own [laughingtears]

Right! I'm flouncing out of this group. I FINISHED secondary in 1986. 😢😂

Is there a Christmas board on Gransnet?

I was born in 87

👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻

Woolly. I'll drag my rocking chair to join you in Geriatrics Corner. We can moan about "young'uns these days" and discuss the price of bread or petrol in the 1970s.😉

When I passed my test in '94 unleaded was 51.9p/l.

I can remember my dad driving to Rhyl (yes, I know) on a summer evening in our red Vauxhall Viva with a black vinyl roof and petrol was 20p a GALLON! he moaned about the cost

That was in the late 70s though...