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AB Editor | 13:19 Thu 05th May 2016 | Jobs & Education
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And would you ever want to go back to it? Maybe part time in retirement for example?
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First paid job was a paper round also had a Saturday job at the local butchers shop, loved the job at the butchers great fun got the sack though.
Apprentice toolmaker after leaving school.

Would I go back to it part time in retirement, doubt if it would be as much fun working on a Saturday at the butchers shop these PC days.
Holiday job doing maintenance work at the local sewage treatment plant ...

... god how I hated Monday morning when I had to use a pointy stick to pull the used condoms out of the holes on the rotating sprinklers - it sometimes seemed that the whole of Aylesbury had been on a non-stop weekend bonkathon.

No I don't think I'd fancy that now ...
Why not Dave, these day's they'd give you a longer pointier stick.
First job was playing the Triangle in a Reggae band

I left because it was just one ting after another
I might have served you, Jackdaw if you were in on a Saturday, in 1968. :)
With the NCB a, trainee mechanical/electrical engineer age 16yrs 6 months. I don't count the paper boy, oatcake delivery lad, football match programme seller, ice skate rink polisher, or 14 yr old school holiday builders labourer as jobs. Yes I would go back........ as long as I could know, what I know now. Down the mine before I was 17. Grew up PDQ.
I left school in '66 but prior to that bought all my pens from Allans. They also had a very posh shop, pens only, on Grainger Street.
L @ Panky The Bermuda Triangle
My father had his office in Grainger Street. Opposite, Wengers. It's all changed now.
Wenger's? That's going back a bit!
Ha ha. You're not kidding, JD. I'd forgotten about the other, Allan's. Remember the trolley buses?
Indeed I do. I believe the Pen Shop is still going in the Eldon Square complex.
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I worked in the BBC pronunciation unit at age 17. What is retirement? I am still full time employed well over 65.......

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