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by **bill cobbett** » Mon May 23, 2011 8:57 pm

Some may wish to join our Deniz and post shocking relevations of first gainful employments.

Mine was in mid-teens as a weekend job in our local CY corner shop here in London. Job involved serving customers, stacking shelve, washing and sweeping.

Two or three things stick in mind... lumping big sacks of potatoes around, choosing nicer, riper batihes by tapping them and fags in packets of 5!!

Pay ... 14 shillings for the weekend.

by **beverley10** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:30 pm

my first job was aged 15 working behind the till in a family butchers sitting in a little cubicle from 8 in the morning until closing! Wage £2.10 shillings a week of which I had to give my Mum £2 ! My reward for this was chillblains most of the year round and sexual harrassment from the randy manager!!!
They have got it made today!

by **CBBB** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:34 pm

Apart from the proverbial paper round, from the age of about 13 I worked weekends and school holidays for the travel company my dad was MD of. issuing airline tickets. Then you needed a degree in geography and one in mathematics to do anything more complicated than a one-way or return ticket (plus some bloody great books that were updated every month).

by **supporttheunderdog** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:49 pm

Apart from a week on an archeology dig, July 1974 working for Lloyd's of London, writing letters to ship-owners, truck firms, airlines, etc., accusing them of loosing and /or damaging cargo and demanding compensation. Pay the pricly sum of GBP 1000 per year, plus phase I and phase II inflation triggered (and inflation triggering) increases under 'Arolds Social compost ( I mean social contract).

by **bill cobbett** » Mon May 23, 2011 10:15 pm

supporttheunderdog wrote:Apart from a week on an archeology dig, July 1974 working for Lloyd's of London, writing letters to ship-owners, truck firms, airlines, etc., accusing them of loosing and /or damaging cargo and demanding compensation. Pay the pricly sum of GBP 1000 per year, plus phase I and phase II inflation triggered (and inflation triggering) increases under 'Arolds Social compost ( I mean social contract).

What no saturday job? Paper round, milk round ???

by **Me Ed** » Mon May 23, 2011 10:23 pm

My first job was in 1985 at the Wimpy in Kingsland Road, Hackney.

The owner was a GC who owned the chip shop next door too.

The staff was a mixture of GCs, TCs and Turks and it was great.

by **Jerry** » Mon May 23, 2011 11:31 pm

Flogging ice cream from the window of Dad's seaside cafe aged about 8 or 9, in the 1950s. Paid myself in kind. One day I sold £20 of the stuff - probably several hundred £££££s today.

by **bill cobbett** » Mon May 23, 2011 11:42 pm

Jerry wrote:Flogging ice cream from the window of Dad's seaside cafe aged about 8 or 9, in the 1950s. Paid myself in kind. One day I sold £20 of the stuff - probably several hundred £££££s today.

Jeeeeeees ..... I worked for a summer in an Italian Ice Cream Parlour ... in the back .... making the ice cream.... tastiest job ever.

Where was the old man's cafe mate??

by **ZoC** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:13 am

first job i ever 'ad woz with jane mansfield. I had the terrible job of retrieving lobsters from her bum.

by **Jerry** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:15 am

bill cobbett wrote:
Jerry wrote:Flogging ice cream from the window of Dad's seaside cafe aged about 8 or 9, in the 1950s. Paid myself in kind. One day I sold £20 of the stuff - probably several hundred £££££s today.

Jeeeeeees ..... I worked for a summer in an Italian Ice Cream Parlour ... in the back .... making the ice cream.... tastiest job ever.

Where was the old man's cafe mate??

Herne Bay, otherwise known as "God's waiting room", full of old farts, mainly retirees from London. Deniz visited it but decided not to stay - I don't blame him.

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