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What was your first paid job?

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    #92
    rsl1976
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭rsl1976


    Lounge girl. Got paid £1.75 an hour :(


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    #93
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    They deliver drinks from the bar to customers' tables and collect empty glasses

    edit: and usually help cleaning up at the end of the night

    Oh right. Glass collector :p


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    #94
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,916 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Oh right. Glass collector :p

    Nope, more than that. Table service, serving drinks and clearing tables. I lasted precisely one week at it when I tried it :D

    Is "lounge boy/girl" really not a term (or even a job?) any more these days???


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    #95
    KERSPLAT!
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    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Oh right. Glass collector :p

    I rather drink delivery officer

    Scratch that, drink delivery executive officer :cool:



    >.>


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    #96
    KERSPLAT!
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Nope, more than that. Table service, serving drinks and clearing tables. I lasted precisely one week at it when I tried it :D

    Is "lounge boy/girl" really not a term (or even a job?) any more these days???

    I did it for a year before moving behind the bar, had great craic doing both, loved it!


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    #97
    One eyed Jack
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    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Oh right. Glass collector :p


    That's what I had always called it too, but that was before the celtic tiger time when people started introducing fancy names for everything and asking for half lattes in the hotel bar!

    I was also promoted from being a night porter to a 'chaperone'. Tipping also became a thing. I remember running after one lady telling her she left a fiver under her saucer :o


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    #98
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,069 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    there's still plenty of lounge boys/girls n the locals at home.

    My first was as a Milkman's helper on the saturday run in rural donegal in the late 90s, got 20 pounds for a 6am-Noon shift.
    Was great craic, talking ****e to whatever milkman i was working with, stocking up on chocolate and crisps in every shop we passed, and as Saturday was the day a lot of customers settled the bill I got to meet a lot of mental auld ones. Mad biddies with moustaches and talking football to oul fellas with only radios who probably wouldnt speak to anyone else til I was back the following week.
    Today, whenever I smell mothballs or damp it brings be back to those days!


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    #99
    Flabangav
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    That's what I had always called it too, but that was before the celtic tiger time when people started introducing fancy names for everything and asking for half lattes in the hotel bar!

    My mam was a lounge girl in the 70s. That was in Dublin though, I had never heard that term before she said it!


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    #100
    coffee_cake
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    I guess you could count when we were smaller and went around to neighbours' houses offering to wash their cars. 50p! We were very rich :cool:


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    #101
    the_syco
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    Delivering leaflets. Sporadic, but jobs were scarce for a 16 year old at the time. 1p or 2p per leaflet, and I could get anything from £8 to £30 depending on what I had to deliver ("free samples" gave me an extra 2p or 3p).

    800 houses would take time, and sometimes I'd get another 400 houses if the person meant to be doing them was too busy.

    I see people still doing the leaflet runs, and wonder much they get for it these days.


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    #102
    tampopo
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    Saturdays in Woolworths Grafton Street.


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    #103
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Nope, more than that. Table service, serving drinks and clearing tables. I lasted precisely one week at it when I tried it :D

    Is "lounge boy/girl" really not a term (or even a job?) any more these days???

    Never heard that term in my life, and I worked as a bartender in a hotel for 5 years! Maybe it never reached Kerry :o


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    #104
    Micky Dolenz
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    Painting chicken shtye on eggs in an egg factory.


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    #105
    Woshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    Babysitting when I was about 13 or so. Then the summer after transition year I worked in Eddie Rockets for £4.50 an hour. I worked there all through 5th year too. I worked every Sunday and got £20 for my troubles.

    Had great craic working there and loved having some money all for me. Worst thing I ever had to do was the time some disgusting asshole did such a massive turd in the toilets that it blocked the whole thing. I had to break it up with a tongs and fish pieces of it out into a bag - then throw the bag and tongs into the dumpster in the back. I have never seen one solid turd so big. I was retching the whole time I did. God, you can be stupid when you're 16 - I should have told them to feck off when they asked me to deal with it. I can still remember how disgusting it was over 15 years later. Urgh

    Good times though!


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    #106
    Ciaran_B
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    Petrol station forecourt guy. Filling cars, sweeping up - the usual. 19 years ago.


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    #107
    mojesius
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    Lounge girl in a gaa club. Got paid £7 a night or £11 for working a Sunday.


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    #108
    KERSPLAT!
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    Woshy wrote: »
    Babysitting when I was about 13 or so. Then the summer after transition year I worked in Eddie Rockets for £4.50 an hour. I worked there all through 5th year too. I worked every Sunday and got £20 for my troubles.

    Had great craic working there and loved having some money all for me. Worst thing I ever had to do was the time some disgusting asshole did such a massive turd in the toilets that it blocked the whole thing. I had to break it up with a tongs and fish pieces of it out into a bag - then throw the bag and tongs into the dumpster in the back. I have never seen one solid turd so big. I was retching the whole time I did. God, you can be stupid when you're 16 - I should have told them to feck off when they asked me to deal with it. I can still remember how disgusting it was over 15 years later. Urgh

    Good times though!

    Too much info :/


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    #109
    Woshy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Too much info :/

    I'm actually having flashbacks now!


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    #110
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Graces7 wrote: »
    What was your first paid job?

    Hitman.


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    #111
    Kevin McCloud
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    Picking stones in a field.


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    #112
    ZeroThreat
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    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Are these some sort of euphamisms?

    Indeed....

    20 lids a night isn't much compensation for a sore hole....


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    #113
    One eyed Jack
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    Woshy wrote: »
    I'm actually having flashbacks now!


    Gave me flashbacks of my time in Supermacs and all :(


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    #114
    ZeroThreat
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    My first paid job was working in Bewley's (Westmoreland St) late 90s (98 I think). Something crappy like 3.50 or 3.60 punt rate if I recall.

    Any other Bewley's veterans here?? :D


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    #115
    rsl1976
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭rsl1976


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    That's what I had always called it too, but that was before the celtic tiger time when people started introducing fancy names for everything and asking for half lattes in the hotel bar!

    I was also promoted from being a night porter to a 'chaperone'. Tipping also became a thing. I remember running after one lady telling her she left a fiver under her saucer :o


    It was lounge girl/boy when I done it and that was in the early 90's


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    #116
    the_syco
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    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    My first paid job was working in Bewley's (Westmoreland St) late 90s (98 I think). Something crappy like 3.50 or 3.60 punt rate if I recall.

    Any other Bewley's veterans here?? :D
    Nice. In 98/99 I was working in the kitchens of a local restaurant for £2 an hour.


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    #117
    Wichita Lineman
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    Putting creosote on the fences of a stud farm one summer.


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    #118
    billie1b
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    Helper on a bread round when I was 12, every saturday for IR£25, was great, started at 3am and finished by 10am


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    #119
    ZeroThreat
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    the_syco wrote: »
    Nice. In 98/99 I was working in the kitchens of a local restaurant for £2 an hour.

    hah never realised the extent of crap pay back then but for this thread.


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    #120
    the evasion_kid
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    Picking winkles, the money was actually OK that's when we bothered instead of throwing them at each other.


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    #121
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    retalivity wrote: »
    there's still plenty of lounge boys/girls n the locals at home.

    My first was as a Milkman's helper on the saturday run in rural donegal in the late 90s, got 20 pounds for a 6am-Noon shift.
    Was great craic, talking ****e to whatever milkman i was working with, stocking up on chocolate and crisps in every shop we passed, and as Saturday was the day a lot of customers settled the bill I got to meet a lot of mental auld ones. Mad biddies with moustaches and talking football to oul fellas with only radios who probably wouldnt speak to anyone else til I was back the following week.
    Today, whenever I smell mothballs or damp it brings be back to those days!

    That is so cruel, laughing at elderly loneliness and isolation. I actually don't find that funny at all.


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