Your first job

BillieTheBot

What was your first job?
I'm asking this question partly out of curiousity and partly because I'm applying for one. (Probably left it very late being 20 now, I don't know, is that late?)

JsT

Sales Agent for a rental vehicle company. Started in August 2002 and now I'm Part-Time sales manager.

Former Member

boots the chemist. i was just about to turn 16. when they had the old uniforms, if you can remember that far back.

i did 3 evenings and a saturday on £2.90 an hour and thought it was the best thing ever. heh.

Former Member

Originally posted by kaffrin
boots the chemist. i was just about to turn 16. when they had the old uniforms, if you can remember that far back.

i did 3 evenings and a saturday on £2.90 an hour and thought it was the best thing ever. heh.

Haha, I worked for Lloyds Chemist and my uniform was sooo unattractive. Nice white overcoat and a blue tabard (reminds me of the Big Breakfast sketch - woman in a tabard!!). The white overcoat was done up with poppers which would pop open as and when they felt like it. I think I earned £1.53 an hour and I was really chuffed with that, as Stokes across the road only paid £1.27.

Former Member

I was a lowly till monkey in a shop near me just after I turned 16 and earned £3.20 per hour. I remember I got my first pay packet and promptly went into down where I blew it all on CDs, good times! Loved getting up early every saturday and sunday morning, putting the papers out, selling fags to 10 year olds... etc etc

Had a few other jobs since then, worked my way up the part time employment ladder!

Former Member

Originally posted by Tim the Enchanter
Had a few other jobs since then, worked my way up the part time employment ladder!

You sound pretty happy with the way it's turned out.

Former Member

Originally posted by stargalaxy
You sound pretty happy with the way it's turned out.

Goddamn right I am man. My first job was basically one that required no previous experience and paid crap, but taught me enough stuff about retail to get a better paying job in a supermarket. This, in turn, gave me more experience to get a job in another better paid job that was also more enjoyable in a mobile phone shop and so on and so on.

Twenty isn't that late to get a job, I know people who won't have a job of any kind until they get a proper job after university. What job did you apply for?

Former Member

Originally posted by Tim the Enchanter
Twenty isn't that late to get a job, I know people who won't have a job of any kind until they get a proper job after university. What job did you apply for?

I think I need to clarify this. I'm going to give out a few CVs later tomorrow. Chances are I will apply for jobs in retail, as that's pretty much the only sort of work available in this area. Except hard physical work, and jobs at the council. I can't be picky, I know that though.

Former Member

Nice one, good luck with it all, but don't get disappointed if some places don't get back to you. Sometimes it can take a while before you find somewhere looking for people or else it can be just plain bad luck. But best of british!

Former Member

Originally posted by Tim the Enchanter
Nice one, good luck with it all, but don't get disappointed if some places don't get back to you. Sometimes it can take a while before you find somewhere looking for people or else it can be just plain bad luck.

It's hard to tell in my area. There aren't many jobs, which means there's a lot of competition. Which could pose problems.

Former Member

try jobcenterplus.gov.uk,its amazing! in answer to the question,my first job was in a shoe shop,but it paid crap,so i'm now working in a bar. bit of advice: local bars/hotels/restraunts are always looking for staff n the pay's reasonable enough,plus tips.

Former Member

My first job was delivering free newspapers, I was sacked after it was discovered I was just throwing away 100's of them and not bothering to deliver.

Then I got a job in a shop, and that ended badly too.

Former Member

I worked in a Joke Shop on Blackpool Promenade, then I worked in the Sex Shop next door for the same boss.

All this at the tender age of 14!

Former Member

Originally posted by *chris'_bitch*
try jobcenterplus.gov.uk,its amazing!

I use this website regularly, I find it to be quite good at assistance.

littlemissy

My first job was in my local chippy, aged 14. When I left, aged 17 I was the supervisor

Former Member

Originally posted by littlemissy
My first job was in my local chippy, aged 14. When I left, aged 17 I was the supervisor

In the context of a chip shop, what does the title of "supervisor" mean you do?

Former Member

you;ve got a bit more power than the others, and are first point of call for problems. you check that everything's running smoothly, order things etc...

my first job was as a housekeeper in a hotel. then a tescos till tart, and from there i went into office work.

You're going to make yourself known to the local temp agency, yes?

Former Member

Originally posted by queenmab_roo
You're going to make yourself known to the local temp agency, yes?

The local temping agency is based in the Bangor area, it'll cost me a fortune to get there, and I could never afford the costs of having to go work there.

Former Member

Originally posted by rachie004

:eek2: Did I say something amusing?

Former Member

Originally posted by rachie004
Yep.

:eek2: And which of my comments did you find to be amusing?

Former Member

Originally posted by rachie004
Just every excuse you've come out with.

These are not excuses, these are just issues I have to deal with before I could take the relevant courses of action.

Former Member

Originally posted by rachie004
how far away do you live from Bangor - in miles?

Let me check... I'll tell you in a moment...
EDITED: Having checked a map, it comes out as roughly 25 miles.

Former Member

I got my first job when I was 17, in 2003. I was a part time cashier at One-Stop convenience store and earnt £3.60 ph. It was shit. The customer is never right! Then I did various cleaning work, then I was an office administrator until they made me redundant. Now I've left college and I'm a food production operative, on £5 per hour. It's not a brilliant job and I could be doing something a lot better, but it's easy work and for now it will have to do as we just need money.

Former Member

My first job was a xmas temp with Whsmiths. Working in the stockroom. Doing stuff on the shop floor. Earning £4.00 an hour.

The customer is never right!

Something i leanr on a course with the link, the customer is not always right but the customer is the customer. Make of that what you will

Former Member

Originally posted by Richeh
My first job was a xmas temp with Whsmiths. Working in the stockroom. Doing stuff on the shop floor. Earning £4.00 an hour.



Something i leanr on a course with the link, the customer is not always right but the customer is the customer. Make of that what you will

That is true, but after a 5 hour shift on a busy till you start to think differently...

Former Member

stacking shelves at £3.25 an hour, i just fucked about upstairs in the stock room and broke things, hated it.

Former Member

Office junior.

Former Member

My 1st job is the one that i have now, I got it when i started my a-levels so i would have been 16 and a half.
Which was/is working for Tesco, when i first started it was £3.85 an hour which i was quite pleased whith, it was like woo-hoo earning money!
Which went up the longer i stayed there, and after i turned 18 to £5.58 an hour which isn't too amazing seeing as they are not giving me any of the over time i want, well need so i have been looking for a new job

Former Member

My first job was at 15 working in a coffee shop, where I worked for 11 months, starting wage £3.50, ending up and £4.50. I left there to work for Welcome Break at £5.40 per hour, stayed for 8 months, then got a job with The Perfume Shop, where I have been for 1 year and 8 months now, earning £5.23 per hour. All part time while I was at school/sixth form/university.

Former Member

Summer shop at a school uniform shop. Totally mad, because everyone was coming in to get their new uniforms; we'd have queues out of the door and down the street. The fact that I can't tell the difference between black and navy blue clothing did me absolutely no favours

Former Member

My 1st job was teaching english as a foreign language.
I did that while at the university. Now, I'm working as a product manager at a tour operator.