What was your first paid job?

J Mysterio · 27-11-2014 10:58pm

lol, taking the piss a bit with the CV there Conor.

Manutd_4life · 27-11-2014 11:02pm

conorhal wrote: »

Checking my CV, it says that my first jobs was as a 'goods transport retrevial engineer'.

(I pushed trollies around the Superquinn car park.)

Haha i've heard a similiar one for a cashier. It goes something along the lines of a consumer currency transaction coordinator.

TheBeardedLady · 27-11-2014 11:18pm

Mars Bar wrote: »

WTF is with all the strawberry pickers?

Summer work picking strawberries was plentiful in Ireland back then. I did it in Rush, Co. Dublin. As I said before, I earned 18 pounds in one week and did about 8 hours work a day. That was partly down to the fact that it was essentially exploitation and partly down to the fact that I spent most of the time making a pig of myself eating the strawberries straight from the bushes, in so far as you can make a pig of yourself eating fruit. I was like your man Agustus Gloop...only healthier.

DK man · 27-11-2014 11:24pm

Super crazy prices Dundalk in 1986 - was paid £1.49 per hr. We used to do about 35-40 hrs per week and would only get paid for 24 - I was a part time employee. So hourly rate was even less than 1.49. It was hard work and you weren't treated too good. I wrote to the union which I was forced to join with my complaint and they didn't even bother their arses to answer.... But it opened up a whole new world to a 16 yr old boy in a very limited Dundalk,

Manutd_4life · 22-12-2014 10:55pm

redfacedbear wrote: »

McDonalds on Grafton Street - 1991 for £2 an hour. I remember when the rate suddenly jumped to £2.65 - felt absolutely minted!

Oh how times have changed

x_Aoibhinn_x · 23-12-2014 3:17am

I worked weekends in a video rental store when I was 13/14 for IR£2.50 an hour. That was bloody slave labour but at the time I thought it was great pay.

diomed · 23-12-2014 3:56am

I mentioned above that my first job was stacking shelves in a supermarket at Christmas.
But I also did babysitting (strange job for a boy); petrol pump attendant; paper delivery round; altar boy (surprisingly lucrative, thanks to the best man at a wedding often slipping you an envelope with folding money).
This was better than going to the shops to buy groceries (family did not have a car). Our mother didn't tip. Cycling back with a few stone of potatoes was no fun.
Before that at about the age of 10 we waited for the milkman to arrive in his electric van at about 7 am and "helped" him deliver the milk on our road. No charge.
Where was child protection services when you needed them? :pac:

braddun · 23-12-2014 5:30am

a window repair person,paid me 1 pound per window to break about 5 windows in an area

then he would sit in his van down the street,with sheets of glass outside,it usully happened when the wife took the children to school,then they came back ,usully I just cracked it,it only lasted a few weeks as he got arrested

HeidiHeidi · 23-12-2014 11:24am

braddun wrote: »

a window repair person,paid me 1 pound per window to break about 5 windows in an area

then he would sit in his van down the street,with sheets of glass outside,it usully happened when the wife took the children to school,then they came back ,usully I just cracked it,it only lasted a few weeks as he got arrested

:eek:

lukesmom · 23-12-2014 11:26am

Tesco bag packer 1997

lukesmom · 23-12-2014 11:32am

sadie06 wrote: »

Bag packing in Superquinn. We were sent on a training course for a day to learn how to do it! I found my first love while in that job at aged 16. He was a shelf stacker. Good memories.

Wow replace with tesco and we've got identical stories!

OldNotWIse · 23-12-2014 11:36am

"Helping" my dad with his roofing work when I was 14. In hindsight, I didn't really do anything useful as my mother wouldn't allow me up on a roof at that age! I sat in his van and "manned the phone" in case mam called. I also tied jackdaw cages to ropes so that he could pull them up onto the roof. Got well paid though

I remember we were doing a job at some well to do woman's house and she came out in the end and gave me a big tip. I think she was impressed that a teenage girl was not too vain to put on a pair of overalls and earn some cash

He pretty much ruined it for every other employer

mfergus · 23-12-2014 11:36am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Lounge boy

Is that like a rent boy?

OldNotWIse · 23-12-2014 11:39am

redfacedbear wrote: »

McDonalds on Grafton Street - 1991 for £2 an hour. I remember when the rate suddenly jumped to £2.65 - felt absolutely minted!

I remember working in Supervalu for €6.35 and was delighted to work Sundays as we got €8.35 then!

The Peanut · 23-12-2014 11:50am

Picking spuds for farmers at home in Tipp. Fields were huge and the work seemed endless. Can remember the older men all bringing a change of clothes for dole-day and the farmer dropping them into town on the back of his tractor.

Seems like a million years ago in my head.

Menas · 23-12-2014 11:56am

I worked as a 'shop boy' in a local deli. It was a posh shop so got great tips at christmas.....£2 per hour the rest of the time.
I was 14 when I started there and worked there up to leaving school. Having a few quid in my pocket back then was great...could afford stuff that none of my peers could.

Shenshen · 23-12-2014 12:02pm

I worked at the local cinema from age 15, every day after school.

It was just tearing tickets and selling ice creams until the films started, then I could do my homework.

I didn't get to spend much money on things I would have liked, though, I was saving up to go to university.

redfacedbear · 23-12-2014 12:15pm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I remember working in Supervalu for €6.35 and was delighted to work Sundays as we got €8.35 then!

If I remember rightly we got time and a half for Sundays but working a bank holiday for double time was so worth it.

PauloMN · 23-12-2014 12:19pm

Superquinn, fish counter, £1.29 per hour. Summer '89 I think.

Horrendous, just gutting salmon all day long really. Bags and bags of fish guts, and the feckin' stink off us.

Used to piss me off how much the aul wans loved Fergal Quinn, when he paid his staff so poorly.

Piliger · 23-12-2014 12:37pm

Laydon's Cash and Carry in Fairview, Dublin, in about '72. £5 per week. My mum took £2 for food and board.

OldNotWIse · 23-12-2014 12:44pm

redfacedbear wrote: »

If I remember rightly we got time and a half for Sundays but working a bank holiday for double time was so worth it.

Our manager was so miserly we got time and a third!

Useful.Idiot · 23-12-2014 12:50pm

I think it was just a weekend of janitorial work in a secondary school one summer. was working with a good mate and got to break furniture to bits in a school, was great craic. A very tall school locker did fall on my finger though..

I have never ever had a proper part-time job.

Mick55 · 23-12-2014 12:51pm

Summer job in a Furniture factory. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. Cutting MDF on an old Table Panel Saw with no extraction system. Breaking so many laws, wouldn't get away with is nowadays!

Manutd_4life · 23-12-2014 1:41pm

Shenshen wrote: »

I worked at the local cinema from age 15, every day after school.

It was just tearing tickets and selling ice creams until the films started, then I could do my homework.

I didn't get to spend much money on things I would have liked, though, I was saving up to go to university.

How did you get work in a cinema???

Useful.Idiot · 23-12-2014 1:47pm

braddun wrote: »

a window repair person,paid me 1 pound per window to break about 5 windows in an area

then he would sit in his van down the street,with sheets of glass outside,it usully happened when the wife took the children to school,then they came back ,usully I just cracked it,it only lasted a few weeks as he got arrested

that is mental if true.

Manutd_4life · 23-12-2014 2:00pm

braddun wrote: »

a window repair person,paid me 1 pound per window to break about 5 windows in an area

then he would sit in his van down the street,with sheets of glass outside,it usully happened when the wife took the children to school,then they came back ,usully I just cracked it,it only lasted a few weeks as he got arrested

Thats one hell of a story :eek:

cajonlardo · 23-12-2014 3:14pm

Worked as a general labourer in the Gardens of a mansion. Not quite Downton but about 5 times the size of my house now

There was even a real maid - a woman who had served her time in one of the last Colonial Estates in this country and had then gone over to England before returning for this job.
Lady of the house was in her late '90's. What a woman - she remembered the Wright brothers first flight and lived through the moon landings.

I worked hard ( ached from head to foot each evening and I have never slept like I did then) and got paid 5 punts per day - that was great money in the mid '70's. Lasted til she died and the house was sold.

Hadn't thought about that for years, thanks for reminding me.

asteroids over berlin · 23-12-2014 3:21pm

Going Strong wrote: »

Forecourt attendant when I was 16/17 in the early '80's. I got the princely sum of £1 an hour. I hated it as it was utterly boring and the guy manning the till was not only the spitting image of Monty Burns but gave him a run for his money in the "Evil" stakes as well. He didn't like me being in the office at all so would make me stand outside in all weathers as it "looked more professional" while he sat there with the heater on listening to the radio. If any of his cronies came in, I'd have to give their car the mother of all services while he insisted to them that I was "well paid enough, so don't be giving him a tip."

lol

asteroids over berlin · 23-12-2014 3:24pm

grass cutting in the summer, me and my mate (RIP), upgraded to a petrol mower after a while, nice one

Bonzo Delaney · 23-12-2014 3:30pm

"Cold and sometimes wet but we got ten shillings a day. The farmer would only employ girl as he said boys fought."

This from the op
Does no one else have a mental image of an aul english farmer dragging himself around the field admiring the wonderfull view of a line of young wans bent over with their arses in the air picking spuds .
Boys fought yeah right!
My self about 10 on the grandfathers farm stacking bales in the A a penny a bale mid eightys

What was your first paid job?

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