Reply to: First job

[Tensai]

The most crucial rhetorical question most people have not answered is "what lesson did [insert tulipty job here] teach me?"

Job : Picking up golf balls at an East Midlands driving range while a deranged pro tried to hit you from 200 yards.
Lesson : There must be easier ways to make money. Be the golf pro, not the ball boy (metaphorically.)

[DaveB]

Paper round,
Milk round,
Buildng labourer,
Motor Cycle Courier (while at Uni)
Door to Door Salesman (after Uni)
Recruitment Agent ( )
First IT job in tech support.

It's been downhill since then

[Halo Jones]

Hoew ist thy shrubberees these daes?

Quantity not Land Surveyor

[Martin Scroatman]

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

Hoew ist thy shrubberees these daes?

[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

[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!

[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

[WTFH]

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

[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...

[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

[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)

[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.

[DimPrawn]

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

[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.

[filthy1980]

16 y/o summer job, in a cardboard factory

stuck at the end of a cardboard corrugater it was 35 degree according to the thermometre they put on the end of the machine just to torture you

thought i was too hard for gloves so managed 2 days loaded freshly cut sheets of cardboard onto palettes for 10 hours a day before my hands were cut to shreds

was paid £1.51 per hour this was 1997

decided there and then the physical labour wasn't for me and i'd be seeking a cushy office number