Your first job

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Used to frequent here very regularly :biggrin:

Had a paper round from 13-16 and then got my first 'proper' job waitressing in a local (high rating) hotel. I LOVE IT! Have met friends for life and the working atmosphere is really friendly. The Head Office are hard on us but the managers take a lot of the flack and I am always made to feel equal.

We do weddings/conferences/restaurant/bar and I started on £4.50 an hour but worked there full time on my gap year and took on extra responsibility for £5.93 :biggrin:

. They've decided that they like me and have let me keep it even though I'm back to part time!

That's great - a job that you love :biggrin:

Original post by Rach@ncl

nope! it was my very first job. my cv was basically a personal statement saying what sort of a person i am, my grades and hobbies etc., i didnt have anything else to put on!

Oh! That's lucky :biggrin:

Original post by Clip

My first ever job was working in a fabric warehouse in Chiswick in the school holidays. I earned all of £2.50 an hour, which at the time I thought was quite good. This was around 1991.

My first proper job was when I joined the Army. As a Class 4 private soldier, I earned £22.21 per day.

Wow!

Original post by 2danceis2dream

Oh and I got the job because I made friends with a girl at college who worked there. I dropped a CV in and she put in a good word. Then had to do a trial shift with another member of staff. These two are now some of my best friends :biggrin:

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Not really a job now, more a huge chunk of my social life!

Aww - that'd be cool; a paying social life xD

Original post by JLXP

Fashion/retail £6.08 an hour. Just dropped my CV in

Cool

How old?

Original post by ChannieAlana

Debenhams Christmas Temp. £4.60ph & I just applied online....

It was hell with florescent lightening.

How old?

Reply 101

PonchoKid

Original post by Lauren Pen

And you got all of those at once..?

yeah that was my job, it was a visitor centre farm, with a shop and a cafe, and then a kennals and cattery attatched...

haha, certainly interesting, but this was like 5 years ago now... and i left 3 years ago...

Reply 102

diving_queen

Original post by Lauren Pen

Just out of interest, what was your first job? How old were you? How much was your hourly pay?
Also, how did you get this job? i.e. through a family member

I worked as a cashier in a Baguette shop. Glamorous I know :wink:

I was 17 and had started my gap year. Because it was my first job I was super excited to get it the day I handed my CV's out. Thought i'd be looking for ages.

Then I realised I got £3.50 an hour.

Was working 12 days in a row with no day off.

Only worked there a month. Got cash in hand....with TAX taken off. Even though my boss had never taken my NI number, never mentioned P45's..

All very dodgy. I would've taken him to Trading Unions or what-not. But I LOVED my co-workers, who were all foreign and depended on their jobs to survive.

So I couldn't risk them losing their jobs. And he knew that. And thats why he treated them all like sh*te. Because he controlled their lives. Just awful.

AWFUL MAN :angry:

Have a proper job now though :h:

. I get a pay slip and everything :rolleyes:

Reply 103

Rascacielos

Original post by Lauren Pen

Why?

Why was it terrible? My boss was as sexist as they come - myself and the other female lifeguard were constantly being told off for not pulling our weight, whilst the male lifeguards sat in the office drinking coke and watching the world go by. Apart from the other female lifeguard, the rest of the team were horrible (I normally get on well with men, but this is just how it turned out). Not to mention the job itself wasn't half as glamorous as Baywatch (not that I expected it to be). I spent hours on end stood up by the side of the pool, where it was baking hot and really humid and we weren't even allowed to roll our sleeves up because apparently it looked unprofessional. Well, so does a fainting lifeguard (and there were plenty who did!) but there we are.

Anyway, rant over.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 104

SnoochToTheBooch

I worked at Mc.Donald's for about 7 weeks when I was 16, for about £4.25 an hour I think. I wouldn't recomend it.

Reply 105

ChannieAlana

Original post by Lauren Pen

Cool

How old?

How old?

I was 17. I turned 18 whilst working there.x

Reply 106

Serano

As part of my PHD I tutor undergraduates which is I suppose my first real job. I get ~£24/h for supervisions, £11/h for marking and £20/h for computer classes so it's not too bad.

Reply 107

Lyde

I was 16, and worked for an after school kids club, whilst I was doing my a-levels. I earned NMW which I think was £4.93 at the time, it was fourteen years ago. I worked 3.30pm-6.30pm Monday-Friday.

I really loved my job and it paid for my driving lessons when I turned 17! It's so strange when I see the same children I helped look after now that they are adults themselves...

Reply 108

nataliekwong

My first job..was Piano teaching. One of my piano teachers had to go in for surgery during the Summer Holidays and she gave me her students, and I have been teaching them since last year since she is on bedrest still.
At first I charged £10 half an hour, but now I charge £30..
They had one lesson every two weeks.

Reply 109

Arianto

Original post by Lauren Pen

ghost tour company?

Yeah, Edinburgh's got a lot of ancient vaults so there's a lot of tourist firms that specialise in taking people through these vaults, which are said to be haunted. Ironically I never went on a tour, just worked in the office at the back :rolleyes:

Reply 110

LovePeaceAwesome

Wow - some people have had bad job experiences (n)

Reply 111

mbowker

My first job is as a lifeguard I get £5.98 an hour and i'm 16 so not bad :smile:

Reply 112

Lydia1234

Thorpe park Rides and Attractions host I was 16 and the pay was £6.00

Reply 113

cberry

Mine was when I was 16 in a cheap clothes shop. I think I was paid about £5 an hour? It was okay, but one girl used to lock me in the stock room and turn the light off so I couldn't find my way out!

Reply 114

amison

Age 14, working in a hairdressers (I was the Cinderella of the salon!)

I was paid £3.12 an hour, but with tips that usually rounded up to around £5 an hour.

Reply 115

LovePeaceAwesome

Original post by Lydia1234

Thorpe park Rides and Attractions host I was 16 and the pay was £6.00

Awesome! But how did you get there?

Original post by cberry

Mine was when I was 16 in a cheap clothes shop. I think I was paid about £5 an hour? It was okay, but one girl used to lock me in the stock room and turn the light off so I couldn't find my way out!

That's so mean! Why didn't you report it?

Original post by amison

Age 14, working in a hairdressers (I was the Cinderella of the salon!)

I was paid £3.12 an hour, but with tips that usually rounded up to around £5 an hour.

How did you get that job? :smile:

Reply 116

amison

Original post by Lauren Pen

How did you get that job? :smile:

I walked in there one day and practically harassed the manager for well over an hour until he gave in and hired me. I think he just wanted to shut me up in the end. I was there for two years.

Reply 117

LovePeaceAwesome

Original post by amison

I walked in there one day and practically harassed the manager for well over an hour until he gave in and hired me. I think he just wanted to shut me up in the end. I was there for two years.

How did you harass the manager? :biggrin:

Reply 118

olumide_apexking

£6.00 and hour job (SUMMER HOLIDAY) earned an average of £150 a week, since i did loads of hours since i just lived down the road.
Was a track marshal at my local track, watched races waved flags etc, drove karts got free food DREAM JOB FOR A 16 YEAR OLD :P.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 119

olumide_apexking

Original post by olumide_apexking

£5.00 and hour job (SUMMER HOLIDAY) earned an average of £150 a week, since i did loads of hours since i just lived down the road.
Was a track marshal at my local track, watched races waved flags etc, drove karts got free food DREAM JOB FOR A 16 YEAR OLD :P.

Paid like £400-500 in taxes doh :frown:

recently found out i was not supposed to... left at September been to lazy to send of a letter with my pay slips... :| or are HM revenue suppose to do some end of year review S