Your First Job?What Age were you?

mcauley

Since there is a bit of a "First's" theme at the minute....

I'm gonna enquire, what was your first job, and what age where you?

My first one was in 1999 (cringe) I was 14 at the time. I worked in the Temple Theatre collecting bottles/glasses till 2am....

God I was so oblivious to the drug-taking and whatever else was going on!!

Lookin back on it now, I dont know how I got away with it. My parents didnt know and assumed I was staying in a friends house, Ionly worked 1-2 nights a week.

Think I got paid like £20 a night or something.....

Anybody else have any such (worse) jobs??

Mr Magnolia

When I was 15 in a bar. Can't remember what I earned but it was good at the time. Ended up working part time there for ~10yrs. Fond memories.

mcauley

Underage Bar-work really was the way to go was it not?

Archeron

My family used to sell at market stalls for yonks, and I used to go with them from when I was a out 4 years old and get "paid" for my help, so I suppose my first job was apprentice Del-Boy at the age of four.

Loomis

lol I was 20
Worked for a year in Sun Microsystems in the Desktop Development Group

Mr Magnolia

mcauley wrote:

Underage Bar-work really was the way to go was it not?

I would advise it alright. My kids won't be doing it though

mcauley

Jesus Archeron!!! 4 years old?! I thought I'd have been slated for 14!!!

Dancor

Underage barwork in wj's just next to the temple theatre, Think I was 13,

Oh all the tips for being so cute.

Caliden

14. Actually had 2 jobs. Working in a pub and working in the local petrol station.
Got paid shítty wages for horrible work.

mcauley

Never did get tips in TT, people were too off their t1ts to even see me half the time (although I was quite small then....)

Did get quite a lot of the stuff people left behind (i.e. money / phones etc)

Ishmael

11 picking strawberries, BEST JOB EVER!!!!

Gator

16 in macie d's WORST JOB EVER......

I got shouted on my second day for calling the fries CHIPS,

He shouts at me over the whole restaurant "There called fries...not chips"

Me standing there with my stupid little uniform with my stupid little hat and my stupid little chip scooper. Shove you job up your hole mate. :mad:

mcauley

Wow.....Mc'Ds....thats bad.

LMAO @ Your "chip scooper"

17 in McDs
Apparently that's late for a first job o.O

Archeron

mcauley wrote:

Jesus Archeron!!! 4 years old?! I thought I'd have been slated for 14!!!

Yeah, I enjoyed it because I thought I was a big grown up man, getting a pay pack at the end of the day And here I am 26 years later, and I'm still in sales. Goddamit!!!

Dreamer 7

I was 15 in my first job, answering phones in my dads friends company. What he failed to tell me was that no females whatso ever worked in this engineering co.

Each morning I had to walk accross the shop floor with about 35 guys soooo embarrassing !:p

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Archeron wrote:

Yeah, I enjoyed it because I thought I was a big grown up man, getting a pay pack at the end of the day

I hope it was all declared to revenue;)

I was sixteen, it was a 9-5 desk job for a couple of months over the summer, building expense managment databases (yawn). The money was good, but it seriously impinged on my free time.

mcauley

Sean_K wrote:

I hope it was all declared to revenue;)

I'll look into that

Huggles

I was 14 and I was running around town with packages and envelopes for a graphic design studio.

I got £20.00 a week! No thats not a typo £20.00!!!!!!! :mad:

Terry

15. Lounge boy.
Or was I 14. I can't remember.
I was a year below whatever the minimum age was back then.

eve

I was 11 and it was picking strawberries. Earned about £100 in the four weeks I did it before the strawberries ran out. Was an ok job but i wasn't vry quick and others earned a lot more than I did.

6th

Apart from my paper round at 13 it was in a Packaging place at 15. My first 3 days wage was £93 (punts), getting paid case rate rocked!

BKtje

16 in BK where i stayed for a bit over 2 years and left as management.

When i started the management were cool, other staff were bang on, free lunch but **** pay. Work wasn't too bad, was a laugh most of the time.

That said i'd never go back

My brother just turned 18 and has never held a proper job in his life (he has done the odd 1 week coaching thingys but never a proper full time or even part time job, lazy git).

Wishbone Ash

1982 aged 14 in a filling station - I loved it!

When the first car came in, I walked around it for ages with nozzle in hand looking for the fuel opening until the owner had to get out and show me!

(It was hidden behind a hinged rear number plate - forget which car it was (Hillman Hunter?))

Gator wrote:

Me standing there with my stupid little uniform with my stupid little hat and my stupid little chip scooper

LOL

seamus

Hah, I was just think about this, this morning. I was 15, got a job in the local Superquinn, went on the training, due to start the next Saturday, and I promptly fell ill. So I missed my first two days of work, ever, because I was sick.

Probably why I feel bad about ringing in sick now...
I was getting something ridiculous like £2.07 an hour back then. Crazy stuff.

mcauley

Wishbone Ash wrote:

1982 aged 14 in a filling station - I loved it!

Good god I wasnt even born for another 3 years following that!

Wishbone Ash

seamus wrote:

I was getting something ridiculous like £2.07 an hour back then. Crazy stuff.

I think I was getting 50p per hour.

I used to find it amazing that some cars took £40 to fill in 1982 - twice my week's wages!

Saint_Mel

Worked turning turf in the bog manys a Summer when I was a nipper.
Cant remember how much we gt paid but it was pittance.

Then, aged 14 got a job delivering leaflets in the evening, £1 per hour
job only lasted 2 days ... they ran out of leaflets!

Summer job at 15 was picking potatoes and carrots. £30 a day as far
as I can remember, 7am-7pm. Think it lasted about a week, and then it
was back to the bog!

cunnins4

^^Mcauley's lying, he worked as a rent boy in the deep south (of finglas that is).

Me, i had a paper round when i was 9 - i got £4.50 for delivering 300 newspapers every fortnite, then lied about my age to work in spar when i was 14. £2.20/hour. oh hoorah.

ShowUsYourXbox

Milk round, when i was 14 or so. Paid about 15 pound a night, starting at 12 and finishing at 8.

is_that_so

6 on TV, a very brief career. In a kiddie show. I didn't even get the money just some "nice new clothes".

cunnins4

is_that_so wrote:

6 on TV, a very brief career. In a kiddie show. I didn't even get the money.

You poor b@stard! lmao though.

patrickc

13 and worked for £1.50 an hour in my uncles pounds shop, that was 1995..

bohsman

Delivering leaflets aged 12, 2p per leaflet. Had to be folded in 3 first, nightmare.

Aurian-loh

Think it was bout 13 as a babysitter. I used to help my sister. Got bout £20 to play with kids. They were a little hyper but good.

Then at 15 worked in the local pitch n putt. Was boring as hell but got decent enough pay for doing nothing. There was a youth retreat next door so got to chat to tourists most days who loved my accent.

Was also working as a babysitter/cleaner at that time aswell. They had four spoilt boys who drove me absolutly insane. There all day while she worked upstairs for bout €15.

Raytown Rocks

1983, was 12 and started working as a lounge boy in the local pub.
Was paid £7.50 for 3 nights work ( oh the wealth).
Oh and all the second hand smoke I could inhale for free :mad:

mcauley

cunnins4 wrote:

^^Mcauley's lying, he worked as a rent boy in the deep south (of finglas that is).

You swore you wouldnt tell anyone?

Well no more mates-rates for you.

zoos

15 in a local nursing home! I served them tea, coffee and biscuits! and at dinner time i liquidised meat for the residents! Absolutely fantastic job! so much fun!
And on my last day there, the nurses and nurses aids threw me into one of the old persons baths filled with flour etc.. and continued to egg me!

Man was i LOVED there!

mcauley

Makes me wonder, do ya honestly think the 12-15 year olds nowadays would work or get a job doing any of the above?

mise_me_fein

Picked spuds when I was 12, but first proper job was working on the sites when I was 14 painting in the Summer. Don't think I could get away with it now(if I was 14 that is)

Femelade

I think i was about 15 , worked in the local shop. i couldnt, or wasnt allowed use the meat slicer thingy, so everytime someone wanted ham or corned beef, i'd have to ring the shop owner to come down. was kinda awkward witing for him to come down sometimes..just standing there..waiting...avoiding eye contact with the customer, incase they talked to me. i wasnt much of a talker back then.

the_syco

Deliverying leaflets to 800 (and sometimes 1600 to cover someone else) houses. At a few pennies a leaflet, I'd get between £15 and £30 usually. I'd take the entire Saturday, and I'd only know that I had gotten a delivery to do when I was woken up early on a Saturday, as there was a "box with your name on it" in the porch. Was 14 or 15 back then, around 1996 or so. Telephone Directory delivery was not fun.

Tar.Aldarion

16 I think, NCF

Used to go with my father to work a lot though, before that.

Duggy747

I got my first job back in 2000, worked in a local shop for about 3 years. Twas pretty shítty as the family owners (bar the father who was a nice man) were a pack of nosey, ignorant pricks, especially the wife (Think Reverand Lovejoy's gossipy wife from The Simpsons!)

I was never allowed go near the till :mad:
I was always given out to by the owners when I was asked to get a product from the store-room despite me saying we didn't have it in the store room. When they couldn't find it they wouldn't say sorry or anything for being wrong! :mad:
The Reverand Lovejoy's wife once accused me of picking my nose furiously in the aisle of the shop. I never did but I knew one of her Keeping Up Appearances-type friends told her otherwise. :mad:

God, I hated working there come to think of it. That Reverand Lovejoy's wife is a right piece of work ("I'mmmmmm an organic woman!!). No matter who you are she's incredibly ignorant and judgemental about what you buy in the shop, especially if you buy fags. She'll give you a deep social commentary about the horrors of smoking and why you're such a slop of a human for doing so. Heh, the amount of people (including me) that have almost grabbed her and told her to shut the fúck up and mind her own business is hilarious!!

Pherekydes

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I think I was getting 50p per hour.

So was I!

It was 1973 and I was 13 and working in a bar. 5 pints of Guinness was 95p, so I got a fair few 5p tips.

Then they changed the age laws and the manager called us all (all the lounge boys were underage) in to a meeting and told us he couldn't legally pay us for work but if we wanted to work for the experience he'd keep us! The place emptied quicker than a block of flats in an earthquake.

I went back to the bartrade at 15. The Towers in Ballymun. Was it rough? There were really bad fights at least once a week. I was standing right beside a barman who got a glass right in his face. Boy, was the perp ever sorry. Most of the barmen were big brutes and could run, too. They chased him halfway across Ballymun (and caught him).

Ah, the good old days! Sorry for rambling.

AlmightyCushion

I was 16 in leaving cert working as a cleaner in the evenings in the Sligo IT. That was were all the lads in my class used to go to study for their leaving so they'd always see me with the brush and give me some stick over it. Good times though.

Orlee

14 - I worked in Dominos Pizza for 2 years

BEST ....... JOB ........ EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 till 2am - Completely illegal!

Free pizzas galore - and some of the best craic I have ever had at work. I'd seriously consider going back if I was stuck for work although I hope they pay more than £2.50 an hour now!

My lttle sister is now 14 but there's no way my mum would let her get a job

chopperbyrne

In 1999 when I was 16, working in the kitchen of Pizza Hut in the Square.

Was good craic, but I was let go because I was just coming to the end of the 3 month probation and the supervisor had hired her brother in the already overstaffed kitchen and needed to offload someone.

Didn't even have the decency to tell me. I stopped in to check the roster and my name wasn't on it anymore!

TinaSparkle

Lounge Girl in a pub when I was 15 - I think the price of a pint of Guinness was 1.92 and when it went to 1.97 - there was uproar from all the oul lads who used to hold up the bar.

AlmightyCushion

chopperbyrne wrote:

In 1999 when I was 16, working in the kitchen of Pizza Hut in the Square.

Was good craic, but I was let go because I was just coming to the end of the 3 month probation and the supervisor had hired her brother in the already overstaffed kitchen and needed to offload someone.

Didn't even have the decency to tell me. I stopped in to check the roster and my name wasn't on it anymore!

That happened to me in my second job. I was at the end of my 3 month probationary contract too but they didn't get anyone in to replace me. It was also the day after a union meeting and me and the rest of the under-agers got our pay increase from €5 to €5.14 (I put a deposit down on a yacht after hearing this). I came in to work the next day with the uniform on and hopped on the till. One of the managers came down and told me that I was being let go and that they meant to tell me that last week but never got around to it. Bunch of assholes.

Piste

My first paying job (apart from work experience etc.) was when I got a job in a Pharmacy when I was 15 (only this January like!) It's not a bad place to work, I still work there. It sucks being payed below minimum wage though!

At least I can fund my shoe habit now!