Your First Job?What Age were you?

mcauley · 24-08-2007 09:19AM #1

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 · 24-08-2007 09:21AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:22AM

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

Archeron · 24-08-2007 09:25AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:27AM

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

Mr Magnolia · 24-08-2007 09:28AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:29AM

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

Dancor · 24-08-2007 09:29AM

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

Oh all the tips for being so cute.

Caliden · 24-08-2007 09:30AM

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

mcauley · 24-08-2007 09:31AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:34AM

11 picking strawberries, BEST JOB EVER!!!!

Gator · 24-08-2007 09:34AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:37AM

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

LMAO @ Your "chip scooper"

24-08-2007 09:38AM

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

Archeron · 24-08-2007 09:39AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:42AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:46AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:47AM

Sean_K wrote:

I hope it was all declared to revenue;)

I'll look into that

Huggles · 24-08-2007 09:49AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:50AM

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

eve · 24-08-2007 09:50AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:51AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:53AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:57AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:59AM

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 · 24-08-2007 09:59AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:02AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:05AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:05AM

^^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 · 24-08-2007 10:07AM

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

is_that_so · 24-08-2007 10:08AM

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

Your First Job?What Age were you?

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