What job were you in when you were half your current age?

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I was in six form

I wasn't.. I would have been 33 with 7 year old daughter and pregnant with my second.

I was a receptionist at a country club in NY.

I wasn't working; I was 30, pregnant with my second child and had just taken voluntary redundancy. It was handy as the money meant I could take a career break to be a SAHM for a few years.

Resource Centre Manager, at a training organisation

Outdoor instructor.

I’d just started being a primary school teacher

Churning out transactional documentation in the Emerging Markets department of an investment bank in the City.

I was PA to an MD.

I was a waitress in our local pub for £4.16 an hour, saving up to buy my first car. Settled on a T reg three door corsa in metallic blue for £450… crashed her into a hedge within the first few months 😅

I'd just started as a partner in my GP practice(1994) and retired after 29 years in 2023. It was such a privilege to be a part of people's lives over such a long period. I also went through my pregnancies at the same time as other people and watched their families grow up. It really was a great job though the last 5 years through the funding crisis and COVID nearly broke me. I cried after I saw my last patient as she'd cared for my late husband in the Marie Curie.

I was in London working for a book club. A lot of fun with a great group of people. Lots of after work drinking and general socialising too. Happy Days!

Diplomatic Service! Still in the same job (sort of) 😄

I was 19 and in uni studying for the job I do now

I was 24, living in London, and just got my first proper management accountant job after doing transactional finance roles from 19 and studying in the evenings. I'm now an FD, but now up North.

I'd just started at the same company I still work for today, one of the high street banks. Although I haven't stayed in the same role , I am 22 years and counting.

Student and bowling alley receptionist! Neither my degree nor the specifics of that job are remotely related to what I do now

I had just qualified as a solicitor. Plus ça change.

Editorial assistant at a science journal publishing company. Tedious job but great social life as loads of us were new grads who'd just landed in London.

Working on the Clinique make up counter in John Lewis while at uni. I still miss the discounts!

I was in sixth form but my part time job was shelf stacking in a supermarket

2002 I was temping as a secretary at a top law firm. I remember being paid weekly!

It was the turn around in my life that I needed. I'd failed uni, moved cities from Scotland to England to be with my boyfriend and ended up in a supermarket and a call centre just to make money. When I spotted an advert from a local recruitment agency I jumped at it and ended up in the law firm and it genuinely changed my life.

I'm still in law, ended up as an Executive Assistant 😊

Working in a call centre. Awful job.

I was Head of Year 8 at a comprehensive school in London.

I was 27 and running a bookshop with my husband.

I was in my final year of uni and working part time in a local pub.