What was your first job? Me and Owain have just been chatting about it and laughing! I can't remember if we've had a thread about this recently. I know I mentioned I used to give out stickers for drinks promotions at this dive of a bar in Whitley Bay!

I was a wine waiter for the Conference & Banqueting (weddings basically) department for West Lodge Park Hotel in Herts.

During school - serving breakfasts (fucking tasty ones which i got for freeee) at an awesome b&b back on the IoM :)

First job after leaving school - high value account admin for barclays.

Not including paper rounds, first job was working at IBM Basingstoke through an agency. I started the day of my 16th birthday (which happened to be England's opening match in France '98 which they won 2-0. Missed the game, but was getting £7 p/h which at that time was mental money for 16yr old me.

During school, farmer.

After school, bass guitarist.

I did loads of shit ones when I was doing my A-levels. Homebase, working in kitchens in places all over london as emergency staff, the best was as a stock room manager for Topshop when I was 17. Me and a fifty year old polish security guard were the only blokes working there with about thirty girls, it was definitely better than scrubbing pans.

First 'proper' job leaving school was working for Trinity Street Direct. We sold stacks of band merchendise, skate decks, Gunball Rally stuff then a load of skatewear towards the end of my time their. It was good because I could either rob tonnes of stuff or get it on the cheap.
We also distributed tickets for festivals and events. Global 04 or 05 I think it was, I made a good wage for the month, if you know what I mean.

I also got to go to a few things as well, it was a good job. I got sacked for being off my face one day as I decided to go in after not going to bed. Smart move from the young man. :-\

I've only had 3 jobs. Paper round for 3 years. Left school at 16 and worked as an IT engineer for 4 1/2 years and have been working for our family business for the last 9 years running some of our contracts

I started working at a local computer store in Canada, selling computers and building them as well as servicing them and training people on how to use them.

Must have been when I was about 13-14

Worked in a sleepy bookshop on Sundays. We weren't allowed to read the books because it might give the wrong impression to the customers.

That pretty much set the tone for my career I feel.

I've only had 3 jobs, one of them is the same job in many different venues (sports coaching).

First job was working in Savers for about £3.25 an hour when I was like 15.

Sort of first - pricing tins in local corner shop - £1.25 an hour... Only lasted 6 weeks until caught pinching fags,
Proper first Thursday nights, Saturdays & Sundays during A Levels @ Field & Trek in Croydon selling overpriced north face coats to newbies....

I worked for a high end women's shoe store in their warehouse in Fulham for about 6 months, by the end of it my parents whole spare room was literally so full of shoes and belts and bags that they couldn't open the door because everyone was robbing so much gear I couldn't give it away or sell it all fast enough! Used to leave with two bin liners full of stuff regularly but obviously after a while they started to clock on to the fact that an awful lot of stock seemed to be going missing so they just sacked the entire warehouse as we were all at it!

Ha ha....

My two mates, brothers, with shovels for hands used to deal in louis vitton bags, either from warehouses or fakes, funniest thing seeing two meat heads from south london ringng up ordering "14 barrell bags with the gold broach, 7 clutches in pink and at least 6 of the one with all the flowers" as if it were a fish n chips order..

My first job was keying in data about broken mobile phones at Orange, that was a summer job between my first and second years at Uni. Other than that, I've always been an IBMer.

For some reason I can imagine you in this:

I also drove the little train around Kew Gardens for a couple of weeks but was sacked for not having a drivers license!

The shittest thing I ever did was working for a charity that housed homeless teenagers, they were all really rude despite the fact that you were desperately trying to keep them off the street. I remember one of them turning up at 6pm on a Friday and me spending an extra hour I wasn't getting paid for trying to find him somewhere to stay which obviously at such late notice wasn't easy. Told him it wasn't going to happen and he kicked off at me and I just lost it with him and was asked not to come back to work on Monday!


One of the managers where I worked at the Warehouse was also pretty much stealing to order, it all got so out of hand he practically needed another member of staff to run his Ebay account. I don't want to say what company it was but it was at the top end of women's fashion and you'd be shocked at how totally disorganised it was. We had a basketball net in the warehouse and used to play 5 a side football if we even bothered going in at all.

Shittest job I ever had was canvasing for a double glazing/security door/conservatory type place. Commission only, but my boss was far more interested in getting pissed.. not usually a problem for me, but as it was the summer before moving to london for uni, I did kind of need the money!

It did change my mind about cold callers forever. Walking around getting told to FUCK OFF every 2 or 3 minutes for hours is seriously painful. You try not to let it affect you but it does.. unless you are like my work mates.. who where what I can only describe as the worst sort of council house scum. They used to bully old ladies on their door steps, throw mud at peoples windows, kick garden ornaments over. All sorts. They were the kind of dicks that come into work with a spring loaded police baton and brag about how lethal and illegal it is. Total arseholes. Think I lasted about two weeks in that before I decided that just being skint was a better option than wasting my last few weeks at home with them.

They have probably mostly joined the force now!

Wouldn't surprise me!