Following on from
I was wondering what everyone’s first job was? 
For me it was at age 16. 10 hours a week on the tills at Safeway! It was £3 and something an hour, paid weekly! Felt like so much money at the time and loved the weekly pay!
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Sales Assistant aged 15 working at Shoe Express earning £2.27 a hour.
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When I was 13 I was a paperboy init
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Worked in an independent computer sales and repairs shop. Did a bit of everything, repairs, sales etc.
Mostly worked on the weekends as I was in school unless of course it was the holidays where I worked in the week.
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Oh I always wanted a computer shop job but none of them opened outwith school hours 
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Spar shop hot food counter at 15. Between 8 and 16 hours at the weekend and 8 during the week. £2 an hour
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Ironing snooker tables. £1.75 an hour, and by the time I was good at it, I could do the whole job in under an hour a week. Wasn’t really worth asking my Mum for a lift any more…
Snooker tables need ironed?!
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Yup - you brush them in one direction, then iron in the same direction (from top to bottom as you see on the telly), and then do the same with a block covered in baize (same as the table). It means you end up with a perfect surface, with predictable speed up and down the table. At a tournament, they would do it every day.
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It was quite good, upgrading RAM & HD, building new Desktops for people. Sorting out any issues they had + More.
The amount of people that came in with viruses etc 
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Working in a (now defunct) Photographic Retailer in Sheffield, where i did my work experience, spent the next year and half there as well, think it was £6 per hour plus commission on Camera’s etc did Saturday’s and then 5 days a week during school holidays to cover staff when they where on holiday.
Fixing car electronics. Not hourly but more of a “no fix no pay” type thing. Paid quite well for a first job, only issue is that I had to somehow get to the places where the cars broke down which wasn’t easy when I didn’t have a vehicle myself.
Today I learned!
I used to do that at home for people! Was much fun!
Please tell me you did developing of photos and you have some awesome stories?
That’s cool!! Did you work on any expensive/tech heavy cars?
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Yep latest cars from a certain German manufacturer. They were full of tech - the average car had a good 20 or so ECUs which are like computers (actually closer to microcontrollers than computers. I’m not sure they even ran an operating system).
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My first job was little old Woolworths, back in the day!
Oh and it was £3.65 an hour when I was 16.
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My first job, and only job, is the job I do now. Self employed carpenter.
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Customer Service at Teco, was really well paid for a 17 year old £6 something per hour and £10 something per hour on a Sunday/Bank Holiday
Working for the Co-Op Bank l alternated between feeding magnetic tape and cartridges into the machine and monitoring the 47 ATMs they had. Can still remember a few of the command lines codes for things like spit out cash card 
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What we talking here, school time job or first proper job??
School time job was paper round and working in a hotel’s swimming pool on Fri/Sat/Sun
Still in my first proper job… 12 years later 
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