Thread: How old were you when you had your first Job

first, poole park boating lake about 10 years old
next pig farm near wareham



joined navy 14 half only did 5 years at that ever since did government training course self employed ever after panel beater

Originally Posted by dorch

joined navy 14 half only did 5 years at that ever since did government training course self employed ever after panel beater

Hard to believe you did not follow your calling as an English teacher.

13 years old, dog walker at the local kennels.
9 pence a dog for a half mile walk, being a greedy coont i'd take as many as possible in one go.
Sometimes you'd end up with four little dogs wrapping their leads around your legs, then a couple of bigger dogs would spot something and launch after it dragging me up the road.
Worked out about £25 a day back then.

15 years old. promoter and dj of Mod/Ska nights at the local youth centre.

Babysitting at around 14 - I still remember one obnoxious American family who had had their dog's bark removed because it made too much noise.

Originally Posted by Simon43

was that when MFI was on London road? right load of rubbish they sold about as bad as index here

Yep, that's the one, near to the railway station. One of my jobs was to hammer the display wardrobes together using 3 inch nails, because if you only used the wooden dowels as supplied, the damn thing would fall to pieces within a few weeks.

I remember selling 2,000 GBP (great commission!) of kitchen units to an Iranian couple who shipped it all back to Iran. Pity they were unaware that all the unit doors would split in the dry heat.....

I see Fenwicks is closing down, my first job was at Marshall & Snelgrove on Gallowtree gate, that really was are you being served shop.

Originally Posted by Simon43

I used to work at the weekend at Lambert's Clothing in Leicester (UK). This was a very old-fashioned place, bit like 'Are You Being Served?'.

I used to hate those old style clothes shops. They always seemed to have a grumpy old geezer whose hand always seemed to linger a little bit longer than necessary by my happy sack when taking the inside leg measurement.

So the average is about 9 and a half years old.

Come on, there must be some lazy fucker here who didn't start work until their Phd was completed aged 29.

Originally Posted by blue

So the average is about 9 and a half years old.

Come on, there must be some lazy fucker here who didn't start work until their Phd was completed aged 29.

That reminds me of a "academic" relative of mine, more like demic.

I asked him what he wanted to be when he left school, he replied "about 65".

Originally Posted by patsycat

Babysitting at around 14 - I still remember one obnoxious American family who had had their dog's bark removed because it made too much noise.

should be done to all dogs, I have 15 of the bastards around our house, barking crying and yelping day and night.

I missed one out

At 14 I also filled bags of sand at a garden centre after school 5 days a week, £20

washing cars around the neighbourhood when about 12 years old followed by 2 years doing am and pm paper rounds, anything to get out of the house really.

school holidays saw me serving in a busy grocery store at weekends and working as a hospital porter during the week at a large leeds hospital. we used to ferry patients to the operating theatres, bodies to the morgue, and amputated limbs to the incinerator. jimmy savile used to turn up and do portering work a few times a month too.

dropped out of university for 2 years and worked on building sites, breweries, steel mills, production lines and road construction. those times and some of the characters i encountered convinced me to return to university and get qualified for a "proper" job with decent readies and some security, but the freedoms and lack of any responsibility during those two years were great attractions.

after university settled into regular work, interspersed with the occasional year off for travel.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Yeah, Dickie...Nobody gets or gives BJ's or HJ's...

That's fookin' disgusting...

i do.. 555

^ Ya never forget yer first "job"...

Originally Posted by noelbino

Started my apprenticeship as a sparkie at 13.
In those days it was a 5 year deal so finished at 18.
Couldn't set my a grade till I turned 21.
Bloody boss paid me at 5th year rates till then.

shit,,,, how old do u recon to be. serious question.

and where
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At the butchers where I was a general dogsbody, the Irish lads would be getting all the slops and offcuts of beef to be churned into minced beef ready, and they'd have a good laugh by emptying their ash trays into it and dirty old towels, some even pissed into the mix.

And of course nobody would know because it all comes out as ...



So next time you wanna save £2 and get the cheaper beef mince, just remember this post...

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

I was eleven. On a farm, walking behind the hay baler and throwing the bales up into the truck. Dollar a day, as I recall. My brother, being brighter, rode in the truck and stacked the bales I threw up to him.

Later, from 12-16, I had a big paper route - over a hundred heavy Washington Post ever morning before dawn...super heavy on Sunday...miserable in the winter. Also mowed lawns, raked leaves, shoveled snow, washed and waxed cars, worked waxing cars at some classic auto shows, worked stocking shelves in a department store and then, at 17, started working summers for a big international moving company.

Then at 18, off to the Paras and the first full-time job.

Sundays paper round was a bastard, with all the sunday magazines making the bag weigh about 3 tonnes. Took me 4 trips.

I grew up in Islington, London, and of course that meant delivering a lot of copies of The Guardian

Odd jobs from 12 on, but first steady work was the day I turned 16. Got a job at Chick-fil-A. Good times

* Couple different paper routes at ages I don't remember.
* Spent summers trimming Christmas trees 14-15.
* Orderly in a nursing home 16.
* Navy skivvie stacker 17-45.
* TEFLer 46-47.
* And then FINALLY got a real job when I was 48.

What was the real job SK? You still working?

Originally Posted by redhaze

What was the real job SK? You still working?

Back on the gubment tit doing logistics supporting the warfighter ...

Yeah, I'm still at it.

I was a caddy at a country club at age 13.

Back on the gubment tit doing logistics supporting the warfighter ...

Yeah, I'm still at it.

Retirement in the cards at some point? I imagine you have a pension plus SS headed your way here eventually...