Your First Job?What Age were you?

cunnins4 · 24-08-2007 10:10AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:12AM

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

bohsman · 24-08-2007 10:14AM

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

Aurian-loh · 24-08-2007 10:20AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:22AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:22AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:24AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:26AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:27AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:29AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:32AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:32AM

16 I think, NCF

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

Duggy747 · 24-08-2007 10:45AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:45AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:51AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:52AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:52AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:57AM

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 · 24-08-2007 10:59AM

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 · 24-08-2007 11:12AM

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!

Niamho! · 24-08-2007 11:18AM

when i was 16 for about 2 months before Christmas just to get Christmas money. Worked for Cagney Contract cleaning in some big office building in Baggot Street. load of my arse.

Dyr · 24-08-2007 11:21AM

Slow coach wrote:

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.

he he you probably served most of my family guinness/smithwicks at some stage so. Amazingly enough the place probably hasnt changed since then

Mr. CooL ICE · 24-08-2007 11:24AM

13, paper shredder in a bank. My dad was the manager and the porter was lazy as hell back then. Part of his job was to shred papers that were older than 8 years old (or something) but he never bothered, and a stockpile gathered. I remember a week solid of feeding pages into this machine non-stop, which was boring as hell, but I got some decent pay from it (something like adult minimum wage - was loads to me back then), and got subsequent jobs from there when the porter went on holidays.

At 15, I started working with a builder for the summer after my JC. Got £100 per week, which sucked, but I remember saving it all up and buying a MASSIVE 20Gb hard drive. That was teh sh1t. After I finished that, I started a pub job collecting glasses, literally 3 hours after finishing the building job, and kept doing that part-time until I needed time off to study for the LC. The summer before the LC, I was working both jobs, earning £120 from building and about £25 per night from the pub job. Was strange though - at the age of 16, I once worked a 75-hour week. And all that for £270

24-08-2007 11:27AM

graham o sullivans, clearing tables at 13
4 pound an hour

mcauley · 24-08-2007 11:28AM

LordChessington wrote:

. . . . at the age of 16, I once worked a 75-hour week. And all that for £270

Jaysus.....fair play. It has to be said!

CarefulNow · 24-08-2007 11:29AM

16 in a computer shop.

missmatty · 24-08-2007 11:38AM

First unpaid job: minding my great-grandad while everyone else went to the bog when I was 8 or 9. That was back in the days when we actually had a SUMMER.......

First paid: Local pub, i was about 18, v low wages but good fun. Stayed there part-time for a few years.

tampopo · 24-08-2007 11:38AM

At age 15 or 16 Saturdays in Woolworths Grafton St. Where HMV/Next are now.

£7.70 for the whole day.

Every time I hear 'Papa's got a brand new pigbag' (not that often these days, granted) I think of this time. The security/"instore detective" used to play it full blast when the doors shut and all customers were gone.

fakearms123 · 24-08-2007 11:53AM

My first job was when I was 15, I worked in a travel agency on parnell square doing computer work and filing. Then when I was 16 I got the coolest job in the world, I was on the customer careline for Coca Cola, 75% prank calls all day haha, and most of the people were my age so it was some laugh, they didnt expect to be talking to someone their age, i had a job at 14 as a bag packer for Tesco, i dont count that as a job

exiot · 24-08-2007 12:07PM

I was 14, working on a campsite 2 hours from my house so I stayed out there Monday - Friday, worked 10 - 6 everyday and got €70 for the week. Absolute slave labour

Your First Job?What Age were you?

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