Your First Job

Worked for Sega in their European operations centre when the dreamcast was launched back in the late 90s. I basically got paid to play games and talk on the phone :) Good times.
 
Working at One Stop stacking shelves and working the till! It then got bought by Tesco and I worked for Tesco's for another 3 years while I finished my 2 Diploma's at College and I now work for Specsavers in their awesome IT department :D
 
An organisation had printed 5,000 booklets but included three mistakes on different pages. I was given 15,000 stickers with the correct text on them and put in a basement for a fortnight.

Working sucks.
 
Stacking pallets with baskets of produce at the Morrisons warehouse. It was so boring, but the onsite subsidized canteen was absolutely epic!
 
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Shelf stacking in a Tesco in 1999

always pick to do cereal isle - so easy and light boxes too!
never to the jam isle (worst isle evarrrr)
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I did fresh replen for a while, which raised the horrors that were fresh soups and herring rollmops. Horrors because every delivery you had of them would have at least a couple already broken. A pain in the bum when it was the soups, but when it was the rollmops, utterly disgusting.
 
From around the age of 9 to around 16 I regularly washed the neighbours cars (around 5 people each week) for a few quid. Made me a nice £60 or so a month which I'd blow on video games or clothes. On top of that from the age of 12-15 I had two paper rounds which paid awfully but I did appreciate the money.

After leaving school I started a part time job at a Garden Centre on the tills and as a trolley boy. It initially started as a Saturday job but I did one or two Saturdays and wanted full time work, so I asked if I could work 5 days in the week instead and they said yes. Result I thought! I was allowed to work as many hours as I wanted and if I wanted to, work the weekends as well. I did some long shifts there, but actually loved it most of the time.

I sidestepped the supermarket and fast food scene as an unskilled worker, I don't think I could have coped with either of them.
 
B&Q from the age of 16 to 20, on a 20 hours a week contract. Was pretty decent really, fair amount of holidays and overtime, and they paid everyone the adult minimum wage to start with until you got moved up levels for having various skills (an extra 30p/ph per level IIRC).
 
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Washing cars along the streets with a mate when I was 10-12 years old. Weekly paper round delivering local free paper aged 13-16 + daily morning paper round from 14-16. Got job at local Kwiksave when I was 16. Rest is history. :p
 
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