What was your first job after leaving school?
Just wondering what your first job was after finishing school?
I left in 1990 and did a YTS scheme (remember them?) on spraying cars but i left after 2 months as i hated it. I then went on another YTS scheme learning computer programming which i enjoyed. My basic pay was £29.50 plus bus fare money. This went up to £35 when i turned 17, it seemed like a lot of money back then :))
My first real job was a couple of years later, i joined a recruitment company and screened possible employees for contracts we had, the money was good but we were thrown in at the deep end, i made so many mistakes i was fired :))
I left in 1990 and did a YTS scheme (remember them?) on spraying cars but i left after 2 months as i hated it. I then went on another YTS scheme learning computer programming which i enjoyed. My basic pay was £29.50 plus bus fare money. This went up to £35 when i turned 17, it seemed like a lot of money back then :))
My first real job was a couple of years later, i joined a recruitment company and screened possible employees for contracts we had, the money was good but we were thrown in at the deep end, i made so many mistakes i was fired :))
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Apart from a few failed attempts at part time work, and doing a load of dodgy little odd jobs for cash in hand like weeding peoples patios, and the like, I think my first actual job was industrial clearance. Bloody rank it was as well £3.10 an hour for 10-12 hour shifts, £3.30 an hour for 8-10 hour shifts if you did nightshift. I remember one job we went on was down in Stratford on Avon, I was skint when I departed, and actually ended up coming back owing more money than I got paid for the work I did :))
oh no wait, I mean I was a gardener. then a photographic assistant, after that, it all goes secret and I would have to shoot myself if I told !
Does running around with a hatchet, slaughtering mice count? :)
i left school in 85
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My god it was tedious. I then started training as a colourist (it was a textile dye and print factor I worked in) and they sent me on block release to do an HNC in textile chemistry, with a view to a degree in the future. This work was actually pretty interesting.
The company was shut down after I'd been there for just over three years, so I got redundancy money, got a job at Glasgow School of Art (textile dept) and moved to Glasgow!
I quite enjoyed it as the team I worked with were a decent bunch and most of the other staff were friendly (except for the odd power-crazed consultant or battleaxe ward sister). You also got to know everyone as the work took you all over the building. I was there for 5 months and then got a job in the same hospital in HR producing workforce statistics and managing the staff database, training, newsletter etc.
I have a special set of skills and a very big dog called Mimi and together we will use those skills to find your nice new house and when we do we will remove your cooker your camera and all your food preparation implements then cook you a decent supper.
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Was it you who told the story on here about how somebody killed themselves in your kitchen, and the boss expected you to keep working around the hanging corpse when the paramedics and the cops were on the way to cut him down?
wwwwhaaaat??? :-O
On WoS??? Nah!!! :))
From there I moved to the Unemployment Benefit Office for about 6 months temp work, as I knew I wanted to do some sort of office based job rather than manual work, so that was my first proper job beyond the bakery. I loved it there, totally different place back in the 80s. Horrible for clients to visit no doubt, but we were all young and had a very active social life together, with most weekends spent at the social club where drink was cheap and we knew everyone.
You may have heard of it on here, as it happened in Brighton in the 70's, the hanging caused a water pipe to move, causing a leak, and the freezers were in the garden, so there was extra danger of electrocution. I won't say which one, but at the time, it was one of the biggest !
A plumber named Tom was the lucky repair man for that.
Then I got my results through and although I didn't fail any, I got 4 poor grades - not good enough for my Uni offers. When discussing it with my supermarket manager he said, "You know, you only need one basic A-level pass to qualify for the management trainee role here..."
I suddenly saw myself spending the rest of my life stacking supermarket shelves @-) and hurriedly applied for a bunch of lower-entry-level courses. Managed to get on a Combined Sciences degree at Sunderland, majoring in Computer Programming. 3 years later after graduating I fluked a great job at a large software company earning a whopping £13k, which was a lot in 1990! B-)
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