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Saturdays in the Sony Centre which was great as it paid commission on top of hourly wage, and Sundays in Debenhams.
First full time job was office admin in a law firm, which I very quickly got bored of.
It was surprisingly good fun - even though it was many years before min wage so the pay was £3 per hour from 6am to 2pm, then time and a half from 2pm to 6pm.
Time and a half on Saturday and double time on Sunday if you had worked the Saturday.
I did 6 weeks without a day off so I could buy a Gibson Explorer.
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I worked for six weeks and blew most of it on a Viking 10-speed with double-butted Reynolds 531.
No minimum wage back in the late 1980's, rates would either be piecework, or £1 an hour or something.
When I was at college I graduated to collecting shopping trolleys at Safeway.
I've a pretty good job now, but at the back of my head there's always the voice that says "this could end at any time, and you'll be back on the land..." I think that keeps me grounded and stops me being all "city-like".
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I moved from there to Lifeguard work- which was great. Good wages, free gym membership & totally laid back atmosphere. I miss that job.
I learnt an awful lot there and really enjoyed it. I saved enough money to buy a Fender Telecaster and a Marshall VS100 amp.
Very happy days.
The upside was learning a lot about boatbuilding but the not so good side was using electric sanders on fibreglass hulls with no PPE provided back then
I can't remember what the pay was but it bought me some very nice things.
I said maybe.....
Also did some sheep farming in my time.
it was not worth it, you could never get them smell out no matter how long you spent in the bath before you went out in the evening
Bit of bar work, then healthcare assistant which was rewarding and honestly makes other jobs feel easy, even when the going gets really tough. That was unbelievably stressful, and I still sometimes feel quite broken and re-run scenarios through my head.
Did some photography and now I'm an administrator in the conservation industry - and doing well, in terms of learning skills and applying skills from university.
Can’t complain about my first proper job - research in the same physics department as Professor Peter Higgs!
Through an agency:-
did 1 day in a factory putting nuts on bolts.
did 1 day checking new plastic container off the moulding machine ready for butter.
first proper job with contract was after my degree as an junior architect.