Your First Job

Paper round, if it counts.

Otherwise, I realised a GNVQ at college would get me nowhere after a couple of months, so went he NVQ approach instead, as you get a reference and perhaps even the chance of full-time employment. 14 years later I'm still there (but with more money, obviously).
 
Paper round :P

First real job was manual sorter for Littlewoods. Still work for the same company (now Yodel *ducks*) 15 years later, but now work in an office.
 
Working in DVD store selling DVD's....obviously. I was 16 and just started college. They were the days.

I even got paid triple time on bank holidays!!
 
First job was as a pot boy. I would have been well under normal working age (12 or so) and got £5.50 a session at the local social club. I did also get to eat some sweets and have free soft drinks.

I also had a paid summer job working for a publishing company when I was 15.

Then my first real real job was at 16 and 7 months old when I started working for McDonalds.
 
20 yrs ago i was doing an evening paper round that involved delivering to 3 houses on the river severn, meaning i got covered in mud. i did this for £4.50 a week and probably cost my mum more in washing powder for my clothes.
on a sunday i had a another paper round and my back has never been the same since. i got £4 and a gander at the sunday sport every week.
 
MB101 said:
Cat eye counter.

I walked along the motorway counting cats eyes.
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As cats eyes are equidistantly spaced, all you needed to know was the length of the stretch of motorway you had to patrol and the distance from one cats eye to another. You could then calculate the number of cats eyes on any assigned stretch of motorway, allowing you time to go to the pub and get smashed.

However, as you're trolling I guess you already knew that. :p
 
1st job was firing the traps at a clay pigeon range, old spring loaded style none of the fancy stuff.

Money was good for my age but looking back it was bloody dangerous and could have lost a leg on the 1st day!
 
I know paper round doesn't count, but I then got a job in the same shop as a cleaner, shelf stacker, stock take etc, closing the shop etc. That was late teens before uni and during uni hols. Cash in hand and £2/hour as it was before minimum wage came into force!

First salaried job would have been web designer / tech guy for a library as a gap year between uni years 2 & 3, aged 22.
 
landscape gardener, ~£60 a week, 1st week after being payed i went into town and spent it all in the arcade within a few hours, walked home feeling gutted.
2nd weeks pay packet, did the same as above.
3rd week, decided it wasnt worth doing as id likely do the same as the first week so i quit :)
 
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