First job

[Gumbo Robot]

Packaging Technician at Showerings Cider factory, Shepton Mallet.

Had to go to the factory floor every hour to make sure the labels were on straight then back to my lab for a kip.

Rinse & repeat x 8.

[DimPrawn]

Papa paid me in ponies to shout at the hired domestic staff. Bliss.

[anonymouse]

I was a late starter, my first job was an IT contract at 18 whilst on college placement. They needed me to stay for an extra 2 weeks.

[pr1]

Paper boy in the early 90's.

£15 a week for 4 mornings, I felt rich!

I got £23/week for 7 days a week (7 mornings + 6 afternoons) -50p every time you were late - late 90s

I was the richest self-made hundredaire in school but I was too tired to do anything, ever. If I went round to a mates house on a friday night I'd fall asleep by 9 (then have to be up at 6am to do the saturday papers, obv)

[MarillionFan]

And it seems my other daughter is likely to get an apprenticeship with one of the multinationals here, as a lab. technician. Starting January 2015, first year she'll get about £500 a month. Second year, up to £2000 a month.

Basically you've never had them take a pocket money job and learn the value of hard work / money earlier in life

#spoiledwithasilverspoon

[eek]

Basically you've never had them take a pocket money job and learn the value of hard work / money earlier in life

#spoiledwithasilverspoon

It's Switzerland... £500 will buy you a starbucks, £2000 is just enough for a big mac and large fries...

[WTFH]

£5 per (8 hour) day washing/preparing cars for the local Vauxhall dealer. I was 15, it was my first summer job.

[pr1]

Basically you've never had them take a pocket money job and learn the value of hard work / money earlier in life

#spoiledwithasilverspoon

NAT's quote was from 15 months ago

#delayedresponse

[Pherlopolus]

My first job was on a 4 months contract in 1989 doing a clean up of Wolverhampton ring road while I was waiting for my A Level results, was great fun and got about £150 a week with productivity bonuses which at 18 was fantastic, I was driving 5.6t tipper lorries for a while when the driver broke his toe and I was the only one with a driving licence! Also learnt the importance of getting 3 pints in in a 30 min lunch break (shandies if driving - which shocks me a bit now!), then eating lunch on the walk back. Did make me realise that working in an office with computers would be much less hard work, and my liver has probably been saved!

[Halo Jones]

My pocket money job was working in the local chip shop.
Left school did retail jobs, then ran a scaffold yard & then back to Uni & now a Chartered Surveyor