What was your first (proper) job after leaving school/college/Uni?

[Bbbananas]

Not the childhood strawberry picking, bulb cleaning, goosegog picking jobs (we were in farmland....) or the paper round, but first real job?

[joggerjayne]

Media Lawyer

Drove me nuts, stuck behind a desk all day, and didn't pay enough to cover my drinking and gambling.

[Bbbananas]

Nice one JJ !!!
Good answer....

It's a booger when minimum wage doesn't take into account the drink & gambling. It's an infringement of human rights doncha think?!

[joggerjayne]

On has to be able to play the odd table of Roulette, and a few hands of Blackjack, salla.

Employers should take that into account.

[Bbbananas]

I would not consider accepting a job unless I had one 'shopping' day a month, 2 'duvet' days and a bar in the common room - for medicinal purposes.

[joggerjayne]

A "duvet day" is where you can't be bothered to get up, yes ?

Sounds like a minimum job spec, salla. Very reasonable.

[sara3]

shop assistant in The Hall Of Cards. remember them? no? lol!

and then Boots. and then I got a proper job and it all went horribly wrong!

[B00]

A packer in a tampax factory

[Sandy-Wroe]

First job was as a messenger in a printers. The pay was 48 shillings a week. That's £2.40 in this new-fangled decimal currency.

[joggerjayne]

Julian Clary gives a very naughty answer, involving working in a fudge factory.

[sara3]

salla, someone on my FB friends list works as a "secretary" in a brothel..

don't post anything on my profile!

[jackthehat]

Clerical Officer in DHSS.
Lordy, lordy, lordy ! :o(

[Sandy-Wroe]

Joggerjane,
That JC, was he a fudge packer, do you think?

[joggerjayne]

Even brothels must have paperwork, sara !

[joggerjayne]

That is the essence of his witty reply, Sandy, yes.

[Mr Veritas]

I joined up (in the Army) for WW2,even though I was (I think) underage.

[jesimika]

Carer for profoundly mentally and physical disabled young people, did it from the age of 16 til 19, was an amazing job and I miss it a lot.

[Barmaid]

I couldn't get a job because everyone said I was well qualified but no experience, so I started up my own secretarial agency.

[Stephen_G]

I worked in a pie-making factory, earning about £40 or £50 a week. Long hours and tedious, repetitive work going into the walk-in freezer and getting out pieces of meat to go into the mincing machine to fill the pies. The supervisor I had was a right bell-end too.

[smudge]

BOO - sorry, but that made me spill my Vimto! ;o}

Proper job: Admin/Payroll/Accounts clerk - eventually Company Secretary.

[sherrardk]

Incredibly nervous teacher of 22 teaching (amongst others) 18 year olds