What was your first job, and how much did it pay?

[berniedicters]

1981, stockroom porter in British Home Stores.

As I recall, I took home about eight quid for a Saturday.

When I started doing the early morning security thing with them, it rocketed up to somewhere around thirteen.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

£3.26 per hour in 1995 at Burger King.

The best bit was making mega Whoppers when we could help oursevles to food on our breaks. Every thing went in - Chicken dippers, Three whopper burgers, tons of bacon etc.

I have never enjoyed a job since as much as Burger King. It was a right laugh.

I had a right laugh at BK as well, sound bunch of folk. £3.70 an hour in 2000. Making mega Royales was more my thing at breaks though.

 

[gentlegreen]

1976 - unskilled paint spraying for £24 per week (I think) - so approx 60p an hour.

 

[Eva Luna]

My very first job when I was 13 was on a fruit n veg stall on a market. I got 15 quid a day and used to add up all wrong and get called out all the time. It was really hard work adding up!

But my first job after leaving uni was running a small business with a real shark, just the two of us, and we turned over just under half a mill per year, and he paid me only 22 grand a year. AND made me use my own car for business, charge it to the client at 44p per mile yet pay me 11p. Used to lie to me about 'how things were in the real world' and I only found out how they actually were when I eventually left after 5 years. Bastard.

 

[Meltingpot]

Working in the storeroom of Smiths in my summer holidays from school, mainly repricing the stock; there had just been a change in the rate of VAT and this was in the days (1974) before the stock was computerised and barcoded, so all the price labels had to be peeled off by hand and then new ones put on in their place. And then the lift broke down and everything had to be carried up and down four flights of stairs.

I did well to stick that job for three weeks. Thank goodness it was only a holiday job.