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What was your first paid job?

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    #122
    KERSPLAT!
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    eternal wrote: »
    That is so cruel, laughing at elderly loneliness and isolation. I actually don't find that funny at all.

    Who's laughing?


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    #123
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    I left school at 16 and worked in a furniture shop. My mum applied for the job for me without telling me. 65 pounds a week, working week included having to work every Saturday which was a disaster during the football season.

    That was first full time job. Had paper rounds when I was at school.


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    #124
    eternal
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    The general tone of the post was derogatory and sarcastically putting down these elderly people who were probably begging for company. It's not rocket science to work this out like from reading it. I shouldn't have to explain what is mind numbing in its obviousness.


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    #125
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    Mind numbing in its obviousness to someone looking for it, maybe. I'd say you're reading way to much into it

    Edit: maybe report it if you have a problem with the post and a mod, not me, can look into it for you.


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    #126
    eternal
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    I don't really care, I am just pointing out what kind of assholes are around these days. Laughing at elderly people who are probably house bound is not cool in my opinion.


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    #127
    Mackman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    I used to caddy for my uncle when i was about 11/12, paid me 5 pounds, and i got a mars bar and a coke :)

    First proper job was a summer job working on a road crew for a gas company when I was 16. Laying tar, concrete, paving. Hard work but I got 360 pounds a week for it, I was minted! First thing I bought with my first pay check was a Nokia 3210 :D


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    #128
    biketard
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    Aged 16 (in 1986), worked as a drinks waiter in a hotel function suite. Got paid four pounds fifty a night!


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    #129
    Graces7
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    eternal wrote: »
    That is so cruel, laughing at elderly loneliness and isolation. I actually don't find that funny at all.

    He was not laughing in any way; I found it very moving that he stopped to chat with them and was there for them week after week. Had time for them and that i more than many have..they would have looked forward to it all week.. Well done!


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    #130
    Graces7
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    Wonderful reading,, what an industrious lot!

    I was in the UK then and my second paid job was at 16, the year my only brother drowned and my mother did not want me left alone at home in the school holidays. The job was in the canteen at the huge govt office dept she was a secretary at. As I was allowed to visit her in her office I had to sign the Official Secrets Act..

    Varied duties; spent hours cutting up fruit for fruit cocktail, then was hopeless in the Called Order bar so was relegated to the Store then tea trolleys.

    From then, every winter on the Christmas Post and in summer clerical work at the Exam board place....


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    #131
    bigneacy
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    Fuel injection engineer.

    Fine. Ok, petrol pumper. Started at £4 an hour. Got the job when I was 12 because I told them I was 16. Then when I turned 16 I told them I was 16! Stayed there for 6 years- to my shame it's my longest held job to date!


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    #132
    billie1b
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    eternal wrote: »
    That is so cruel, laughing at elderly loneliness and isolation. I actually don't find that funny at all.

    Unfortunately thats rural Ireland, it was the same on the bread run I did, had 2 shops like that of the beaten track, in both shops I would stay for an extra bit for a chat to give them some company for a few minutes, most weeks I let their small bill slide too, I dont think the poster was laughing, just calling it the way it was, I call my own mother a mad biddy most days, I think we have all used that term


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    #133
    AndyBoBandy
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    Sailing instructor as a 14/15 year old


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    #134
    William F
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    Picking strawberries and selling programs for the gaa.


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    #135
    Graces7
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    billie1b wrote: »
    Unfortunately thats rural Ireland, it was the same on the bread run I did, had 2 shops like that of the beaten track, in both shops I would stay for an extra bit for a chat to give them some company for a few minutes, most weeks I let their small bill slide too, I dont think the poster was laughing, just calling it the way it was, I call my own mother a mad biddy most days, I think we have all used that term

    I love this.. Knew an insurance salesman who had old clients who would pretend urgent jobs needed doing just to have him call round. .. he knew how lonely they were.. Actually he took early retirement to work with street children in Bucharest.

    When I am at weekday mass, I stay sitting at the back of the church and smile at the grim faced old ones just to see them crack a smile. Often they will stop and chat a while


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    #136
    mariaalice
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    My first paid job was in a hairdressers on a Saturday aged 14 very badly paid but good craic and you got tips.


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    #137
    retalivity
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    eternal wrote: »
    I don't really care, I am just pointing out what kind of assholes are around these days. Laughing at elderly people who are probably house bound is not cool in my opinion.

    Bloody hell it's not like I called round every week insulting them and laughing at them.

    I had great craic chatting to them, they were a lot of eccentrics and any laughing that was done was more at the stories they used to go on about or giving out to me for my sh1te Irish. As a 13-14 year old it was an eye-opener, delivering milk to them and calling in to the house to get the bill etc. was like stepping back 50 years.


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    #138
    sarkakos
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    i work in a department store. My salary was 350 euro and it was a good experence


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    #139
    TerrorFirmer
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    Cleaning cruiser boats. On one of my first days I accidentally filled the fuel tank full of water. Oops. Of course, that paled into significance with a lad there that actualy managed to SINK a boat.

    Was a pretty cool job though. It was a nice summer, so being out in the sun all day washing boat decks while chatting away was nice.


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    #140
    Irishcrx
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    Graham O'Sullivans when I was 13 , washing dishes , taking out the bins , killing rats.

    It was grand at the time , few quid for CD's and clothes and that. Hated the manager though she was a complete psycho bitch who'd spend most of the day arguing on the phone to her husband or have one of us relay her arguments back to him over the phone.

    Stuck it out for a few month's and then quit one Saturday afternoon as she was doing my head in , told her to wash the dishes herself and moved on to the great McDonalds , stayed there a few years.


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    #141
    marcus2000
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭marcus2000


    I got approx £5 every second week for delivering the Northside People. Sometimes it was a little more if there was an extra leaflet in it........I paid a friend 50p to help me. £5 was a lot of money back then. (Surely, I'm not at the age where I can say things like that !!!) :(


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    #142
    heroics
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    Picking potatoes during school holidays when I was 12/13. £10 a day. following year went up to £14 a day and thought I was loaded


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    #143
    Manutd_4life
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    Just wondering how did people get jobs delivering papers in the morning at that age. Just curious.


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    #144
    HeidiHeidi
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    Manutd_4life wrote: »
    Just wondering how did people get jobs delivering papers in the morning at that age. Just curious.

    Went into the shop and asked for a job!

    Can't remember exactly (it was a long time ago!) but I suspect it was the sort of thing that passed down from older siblings/friends/acquaintances. Not that they gave the job to you (would never be THAT handy) but you knew that a certain shop did paper rounds.


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    #145
    Mars Bar
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    WTF is with all the strawberry pickers?


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    #146
    zcorpian88
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    Summer job sorting bottles in a hotel when I was 15, getting stung by wasps and coming home covered in all sorts of drink.

    Also got a really nasty rash on my right arm from whatever was in the skips getting under the baggy pair of gloves the hotel gave me.

    Money was pretty good, country was booming, hotel was packed, lots of work for me. Hated the wasps though!


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    #147
    Vala
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Vala


    I worked for the milkman and the ice cream van :-)


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    #148
    ceadaoin.
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    I worked in xtra vision part time in college. This was in about 1999/2000 and it was still mainly videos, we'd only get the big blockbuster releases on DVD. I think gladiator was one of the first DVDs that came out when I was there. It was a grand job for 17 year old me. 7 free video rentals a week that I would watch on my tv/VCR combo. Those were the days.


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    #149
    Graces7
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Bloody hell it's not like I called round every week insulting them and laughing at them.

    I had great craic chatting to them, they were a lot of eccentrics and any laughing that was done was more at the stories they used to go on about or giving out to me for my sh1te Irish. As a 13-14 year old it was an eye-opener, delivering milk to them and calling in to the house to get the bill etc. was like stepping back 50 years.

    Reminds me of when I was first in Ireland and living with no water supply atop a mountain.. old lady after Mass, we sitting in a pew in the warm church, reminiscing of when they were young and how they lived like that.. starry eyed she was.. then I asked if he would go back to living like that.. OH NO! She was outraged at the thought.. many of thee old ones have wonderful stories to tell.. If only someone would listen and folk here have done that. Just take the time to enjoy their individuality.. of course I am only 70 and have tales to tell too! But I get out a lot as I trade at street markets.


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    Graces7
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    heroics wrote: »
    Picking potatoes during school holidays when I was 12/13. £10 a day. following year went up to £14 a day and thought I was loaded

    Jeepers and we got ten SHILLINGS a day....


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    #151
    Rosy Posy
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    Laura Palmer wrote: »
    Tesco - shelf-stacking!

    Well Quinnsworth... :o

    /old

    Me too! We got paid £2.02 an hour!!


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