While at sixth form I worked 1 night in a crouton factory. Not a lit I can add other than it was a factory that made croutons. ! But at £3 per an hour in 1986 it was good for a£30 night shift.
talking of unusual foodstuff factory jobs i once worked in a factory that made a very strange orange coloured powder that went into big mac buns, pepsi cola, and also rizlas! think it was some kind of gum substance
It was in IT..but it wasn't called IT then. I remember the excitement when I got sent out to collect some disks..it was windows 2.1 I think. Can't quite remember.
No, after school I did not go to work - I only studied until I obtained my academic degree. Then I applied for and was drafted into civilian conscription (military service was compulsory in Italy at the time, and having obtained a degree I was unable to delay it any more) and worked for ten months near Florence as an assistant to a music school, creating brochures, translating texts, keeping student records etc. That was exactly 20 years ago...
chef in a chinese takeaway, pay was £2.30 an hour. then after about 6 months moved to another one round the corner cause they offered me £2.50 an hour. world domination swiftly followed.
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?
What's on your saucer, page 127
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
i forgot, got reminded today i did do another job in the summer of 85, as soon as i left school, was at Rother Valley Country Park, it was driving quad bikes from where they were kept to where the punters hired them in the park, i got sacked after about a week for being crap i couldnt ride the fuckin things lol
Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
After leaving school (got crap results, I blame it on my parents divorce) I worked in a place that made Windows (not no Microsoft LOL). I only lasted 2 or 3 days. I wasn't very good at it to be honest. I also worked in a factory on a production line, can't remember what I was actually doing though. I was only there a couple of times! Then I went to the USA with my Dad. Lived in Washougal, WA and worked in a supermarket on the produce. After that worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken (awful, greasy job). Then after 18 months in the States I went back to England and started a BTEC in Business and Finance. I worked at ASDA part time while doing that. Finshed the BTEC and started working at ASDA full time. Started the management process but my heart was not in it. Thankfully applied for a job in the MOD as a civil servant. Got the job and started working in Gosport and eventually Portsmouth Dockyard doing various office type jobs.
I eventually moved back to the States 12 years after leaving. Now I sell car,house and commercial insurance in a local Insurance Agency. Been there over 10 years. Oh, I also fix computers on the side. I live in a very rural county and most people here are pretty useless with IT, so it is a case of "in the land of he blind the one eyed man is king", which is nice.
I worked in a place that made Windows (not no Microsoft LOL). I only lasted 2 or 3 days. I wasn't very good at it to be honest. I also worked in a factory on a production line, can't remember what I was actually doing though. I was only there a couple of times!
glad it wasnt just me lol
Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
I got a job through the careers office on leaving school with GEC Avionics. Though, by the time I was supposed to start work, after my exams had finished, GEC laid me off, and closed down. I saw it on the news before I had a letter. Had a short spell at a place called Rockall Data, right next to a railway bridge in Sittingbourne, putting data into a computer from print outs, for oil companies, horrible boring job. Then went to work at Shell Research near Sittingbourne as a lab technician for a while, until it was sold and became Sittingbourne Research. My job there was mixing formulas for a fuel based on sugar beet. For a Le Mans car.
I was then unemployed for about 3 years. Until I started teaching music privately. Then got a job in a music shop teaching guitar every Monday and Saturday. I charged £18 per hour, the shop took 10%, but made enough to live on working (enjoying myself) just 2 days a week. Happy days.
Mine was a YTS jobby in 1996 for local family run garage that repaired, mot'd, and sold used cars. I got paid £50 a week. My duties varied involving valeting cars for sale, helping out assisting the mot technician, and fitting batteries/tyres/exhaust etc. After a year of this I was supposed to have been enrolled on a day release mechanics course. However this never happened as the brothers running the business decided to sell up after I had only been there for 10 months. I've had a few jobs after that mainly working in engineering, but have been back in the motoring industry for 2 years now as an auto electrician.
5 year apprenticeship as a Monotype Caster Operator in a hot metal print shop. Knew it was a dead end but had to stick it out or Dad lost a big chunk of money. Went into commercial art then did a few rounds of dead end hotel jobs. Went to USA worked as a mechanic for Harley Davidson then more commercial art. Went back to UK with wife and 3 kids started at uni as a mature student aged 33 graduated with a B.Ed Hons in Education - CDT is my subject. Came back to States and worked as a teacher till I retired at 55. Spent the last 15 years flat broke but happy, living in the country, playing with various toys and walking dogs,
When I was at school, I had a job in a cash & carry. They bought a 286 and didn't know what to do with it, so I spent part of the shift playing around on it and realised there was a better way to do stock control, so started writing some software for them. Got fired eventually because of exams and wanting to do less shifts.
My first job after leaving school was when someone turned the PC on and saw the software, so they hired me to finish it.
Still in school, starting at age 10:
Newsie (selling newspapers on a streetcorner)
Paper Boy (yes, like the game)
Street sweep
Gardener
Surveyor
Painter
After school:
IT (setup/maintenance/teaching/selling/troubleshooting/etc) Started at $50/hour, it went up from there. Got burned out, grew to eventually hate it, leading to:
Demolition (yes, "tearing" down buildings. Very satisfying work actually!) Which eventually led me to:
House flipping (Very satisfying, with the potential of it being lucrative, with a few years of dry spell due to financial collapse all around) Which eventually led me to:
Flooring (Installation of carpet/planking/vinyl/etc/etc) Which eventually led to:
Bad Knees.
Still do the occasional flooring job but only large jobs, like hotels/apartment complexes/assisted living/etc. Have to scale back significantly due to exceptionally bad health in recent years.
I've probably left out some work, as I've done a bit of this and that through my lifetime. Some I can't talk about because otherwise I will have to shoot Grey Key.
Demolition; Working onsite when they flattened West Thurrock for some new shopping centre called Lakeside. It was summer, very hot and the place was mostly cleared. Phew wot a scorcher that was. Still the old style truckers breakfasts we had were great.
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yeah something like that. stabiliser gum, xanthan gum. it wasnt very chewy though
Sam Fox's boyfriend at that time (late80's early 90's) was hauled over the coals for some dietary scam involving guar gum I think.
:))
No, I worked for Weatherseal. Just a really horrible, depressing job.
And you've still never had a job?
He's still at uni!
What's on your saucer, page 127
All I had to do was wear a Tux during the show and occupy the empty seats every time some of the guests went to the barthroom.
Fun fact: one of the winners was out during his prize and I nearly "won it" because I was at his seat :D
didn't pay much, but had an open bar in the after party, where I met Bryan Ferry so it wasn't a bad job
I eventually moved back to the States 12 years after leaving. Now I sell car,house and commercial insurance in a local Insurance Agency. Been there over 10 years. Oh, I also fix computers on the side. I live in a very rural county and most people here are pretty useless with IT, so it is a case of "in the land of he blind the one eyed man is king", which is nice.
ATV was close enough, although I bet mel can't get past the Tropicana :))
I was then unemployed for about 3 years. Until I started teaching music privately. Then got a job in a music shop teaching guitar every Monday and Saturday. I charged £18 per hour, the shop took 10%, but made enough to live on working (enjoying myself) just 2 days a week. Happy days.
My ZX Art Music Page
Carlos Michelis Theme
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
My first job after leaving school was when someone turned the PC on and saw the software, so they hired me to finish it.
Newsie (selling newspapers on a streetcorner)
Paper Boy (yes, like the game)
Street sweep
Gardener
Surveyor
Painter
After school:
IT (setup/maintenance/teaching/selling/troubleshooting/etc) Started at $50/hour, it went up from there. Got burned out, grew to eventually hate it, leading to:
Demolition (yes, "tearing" down buildings. Very satisfying work actually!) Which eventually led me to:
House flipping (Very satisfying, with the potential of it being lucrative, with a few years of dry spell due to financial collapse all around) Which eventually led me to:
Flooring (Installation of carpet/planking/vinyl/etc/etc) Which eventually led to:
Bad Knees.
Still do the occasional flooring job but only large jobs, like hotels/apartment complexes/assisted living/etc. Have to scale back significantly due to exceptionally bad health in recent years.
I've probably left out some work, as I've done a bit of this and that through my lifetime. Some I can't talk about because otherwise I will have to shoot Grey Key.
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