My many jobs...

[Grinch]

In the years since leaving school I've had lots of Jobs, how many have you had?

I have been the following -

Paper boy,
Ride Controller on Hayling fair ground (your to big to get on the big wheel),
Bar Supervisor at Dixies on Hayling,
Other Bar person jobs,
Road sweeper, Paulsgrove,
Shelf stacker (IOW) Sommerfields,
Builder and ground worker (IOW),
Greating card packer and dispatcher (where I had a vicious tape gun acciedent, IOW).
Trainee Programmer, DBA (IOW),
Cellar Manager, LA Bowel (IOW),
M2, PC technician, Waterlooville,
Assembly line worker, Goodmans Havant,
Southern Electric Gas, working in complaints, Drayton,
Auditor, Xyratec, Havant,
Operations Analyst then Systems Analyst, IBM Portsmouth,
Distributed System Recovery Specialist, Heathrow, London,
UNIX Systems Support Specialist, IBM again, Farnborough/Portsmouth.

I think thats them all, not bad for a man who's 32 and spent 8 of those years just at IBM.

[G]

For me it consists of......

Working in Burger King. (6 Months when 16)
Working in Little Chef. (6 Months When 16)
Working in McDonalds. (12 Months when 17)
Working In Halfords. (2 years when 18 - 19)
6 Month off for Uni studying during hard times. (6 Month whilst 20)
Working In Blockbusters. (1 year when 20 - 21)
Working for a large international Construction Consultancy. (2 years to date 21 - Present)

Quite a boring working life up until now.

[gettin2dizzy]

Boat Rescue driver
Nandos griller
Barman x 6
waiter x 4 (over the whole time)
Tractor Driver
Agricultural Surveyor
Grape Picker
Coach Driver
Watermelon Sexer (oh yes!)
Raisin vine mover
Various labour
Strip club promoter
Tout at cricket ground
Stage helper
Secretary
to Present- Ground Munitions Pyrotechnic Co-ordinator.


All by the age of 22 :)

[kwak zzr]

mine looks abit lame -

tool setter,
postie.

and thats in 20 years.

[plowsie]

3 years since i have left school, i was a paper boy from 14 to 16 but my jobs from have been:

Plasterer
Barman/Chef/Waiter(did all 3 one time lol)
Now: Trainee Financial Advisor

[kwak zzr]

plasterer's where the money is mate.

[plowsie]

I figured that, but at the time i was a scrawny lil t*** with a voicebox that joe pascali could beat lol.

EDIT: Apologies mods, never knew the T word worked on here.

[gettin2dizzy]

I knew I forgot some.
Paperboy (if that counts)
Dessert Chef (Chef is somewhate an exaggeration)
There's probably more I've forgotten, I'm always moving around trying to keep myself busy :)

[kwak zzr]

I figured that, but at the time i was a scrawny lil t*** with a voicebox that joe pascali

:smt044:smt044:smt044:smt044:smt044

cuz earns good £££ plastering, he was learning me til my arm stopped working.

[plowsie]

Its a good trade to be in i learned, i had nothing on me at all while i was doing it, now look at me i'm a bloody porker lol

[the_runt69]

Ive done 31 years in various jobs on the Railway.
Before leaving School had a paper round, worked on a Shellfish stall and did some bar work till some of my teachers caught me

[dirtydog]

Well at the age of 28 i'm onto my 3rd job

Worked in a fish and chip shop from age 16-21 started as counter assisstant worked upto shop manager

Then worked for a courier company as a van/lgv/forklift driver as well as a supervisor from age 21-26

Now working as a handyman whilst I train as a plumber

[gettin2dizzy]

I figured that, but at the time i was a scrawny lil t*** with a voicebox that joe pascali could beat lol.

EDIT: Apologies mods, never knew the T word worked on here.
****?

[G]

The bonuses in FA are quire good though. A girl I know does this and is top in her area. Basic is £26k.....Last month including bonuses she got £8k which is somwhere in the region of £5500 after tax.

Not bad going for 24 :(

[plowsie]

yup lol

[Grinch]

Oooh I forgot about working as a spud boy.

[Jester666]

And Rent Boy!!

[Grinch]

And Rent Boy!!

Nope, didn't charge.

[Jester666]

:smt046

[timwilky]

Age 14-16 building bikes out crates at the local bike shop, and gofering for 2 locally based race teams.

16-20 Apprentice - mech eng student. Leyland Truck & Bus
21-23 R&D engineer Leyland Trucks
23-24 Analyst Programmer, Chapman Cash Processing
24- To Date Various IT jobs, GEC Turbine Generators, GEC-Alsthom, Alstom.

So at the ripe old age of 47 I have only ever worked for 3 companies. My current employer since 1984. Does 23 years with one employer make a mockery of the high turnover rates associated with IT.

[Razor]

The bonuses in FA are quire good though. A girl I know does this and is top in her area. Basic is £26k.....Last month including bonuses she got £8k which is somwhere in the region of £5500 after tax.

Not bad going for 24 :(

What's FA? Fanny Adams?

[DanDare]

What's FA? Fanny Adams?


Football Association!

[timwilky]

and I thought it meant f...k all

[Paws]

paper round x 2
sales assistant in pet shop
sales assistant in woolworths
Nursey nurse x 3
hein gericke x3
office
cash and carry

[maff]

postie from 16-30

plus roadie inbetween

now work for harveys (proud sponsors of corrie) for the last four years

[Pedrosa]

Paperboy.

Holemaker in donut factory.

Bellybutton specialist in Jelly baby production plant.

Collector and dealer of Esso World Cup medals.

Franchised Sinclair vehicle dealership.

Laker Tour and flight agent.

Charity shop window dresser.

[gettin2dizzy]

Holemaker in donut factory.

We asked for the job title, not the reason you were fired!

[Caddy2000]

5 years pushing trolleys round Sainsbury's car park (got me through college and uni)
Brush Monkey for a tree surgery company (nearly killed twice)
Calor Gas bottling plant operator (temp)
warehouse operative (temp)
numpty in a engineering shop (temp)
Assistant greensman (temp)
Landscaper for a right muppett (permantent - blimey!)
Warehouse op (temp)
Warehouse op (the gits took me on full time and gave me a £1/hr pay cut!!)
Gardener (temp, then full time)
Manager of the Thames Barrier Park (international award winning £13m park, for 5 years and watching it go slowly down the crapper as the LDA slowly removes the funding.....)

*currently looking for a new change, if anyone wants my CV please PM me*

[kitkat]

receptionist at velux (3 months holiday relief)
office junior worked up to PA to partner (5 years longest time in job ever)
legal secretary( 6 months)
various jobs with temp agency inc
data input
copy typist
audio typist (90 wpm)
filing clerk
photocopier person
shelf stacker
WRNS (4 years)
legal secretary
temp agency (various office based jobs)
nanny
creche assistant
shop assistant BHS
care worker in old bags home
clerical assist in nursery school x4
classroom assistant

been in current job 3.5 years. planning on leaving next summer

been working for 24 years

[Pedrosa]

We asked for the job title, not the reason you were fired!

Gets a Basil Brush and Muttley type chuckle from me.:p

[melody]

Credit clerk

Teacher

Nurse

Midwife


*yawn*

[Wideboy]

paperboy
sign writer / engraver
apprentice carpenter (left due to accident at work)

current - apprentice joiner (carpenter but more skilled:cool:)

[Girth]

Just cycle mechanic for me from the age of 15- to present, 20.

Altho i've worked in 4 bike shops tho.

[muffles]

Bhs, shop floor monkey for a year or so before uni
Unilever, "assistant" (tidy up and organise papers :rolleyes:) for two summers (Dad works there, so done through that - nice enough but not exactly career enhancing, this was while at uni lol)
G.K.'s, shop monkey (similar to Halfords) for 4 months after uni (£4/hour!!)
BAE SYSTEMS, graduate type job (IT - coding, etc) for 19 months
Morgan Stanley, graduate-with-some-experience type job I guess! 3 years next month

[redbouy]

paper boy.
shop stacker
Railway app. was app fitter. wanted to be a carpenter.
RNZN as engineer
Bike Courier for 8 months till it started to rain.
Then boating for the last 15 years.
boat engineer for 10 years now driving. about 8 diffrent boats, 2 years is a LONG time in one job.

[Kinvig]

paper boy
Turkey killer & pluckera
waiter
chef
head chef
events helper
martial arts instructor
Asst Information Analyst
Market Research Assistant
Publicist
Information Analyst
Database Admin
Datatabase Applications Developer (web-based apps).

[redbouy]

lots of paper boy > IT.
I wonder if one leads to the other. :p

[metalmonkey]

Kitchen Porter
Cleaner in my high school
Summer camp coucleor US
Computer game shop (gap yea)
Summer camp US Taught sailing
Uni and computer game shop
Runner in TV
Barteder
Temp xmas work
Oudoor Ed instrucor
Worked at summer for a nother summers, DJ, running a running a radio station and running the therta.
Went back uni got a degree
Did some more outdoor ed.
Sold xbox to as xmas temp thing that was easy
Camera/sound assistant
Freelance Camera and lighting stuff
Did some work for Av compnay that was crap I quit
Temp work loads of different stuff
I worked in a next warehouse as well, put sales tags on clothes that was crap did that money
Now I actually work full time.......ha ha first time ever!

Thats the stuff I remember, I have never put it all on a CV would be many pages long. I'm sure I have done more than this as well just can't remember all of it. Its not in order I'm 27.

[gettin2dizzy]

Can anyone guess what my job involved as a watermelon sexer? ;)

[Wideboy]

fertilizing watermelons to create a evil bread of man eating watermelons......... am i close?

[Wideboy]

oh and forgot i also did a spell of laboring / bricky'ing, was boring but money was good, for my age

[redbouy]

giving them a talk about the birds and bees ?

[Richie]

Paper Boy, Manchaster
Currys spotty faced sales git. King's Lynn
Fosters Refridgation, Kings Lynn
Knickers and Tights, Elbeo, (yes I did the gussets), Millom
Barman, Millom
Decorator, Millom
Labourer, Australia
Brickie, Australia,
Fencer, Australia
Barman, Australia
Doorman, Australia
Barman/cellerman, Millom
VEHICLE MECHANIC - A Mech ,Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Army.
Husband.
Father.

[Kate Moss]

sales advisor - bay trading and next
admin officer - dockyard
funfair assistnt - butlins
Reservationist - moat house hotels
Bar Staff - whetherspoons where i ws interviewed by Phil24_7!!!
Receptionist - hotel
Reservationist - another hotel
Reservations Manager - Golf and Country Club
Office Manager - Drug and Alcohol Rehab - Best job ever and now training to be a counsellor!!!

[Wideboy]

whats a Reservationist?:confused:

[Kate Moss]

posh word for someone who makes reservations for a hotel aka reservations agent (James Bond Stylee)

[gettin2dizzy]

fertilizing watermelons to create a evil bread of man eating watermelons......... am i close?
Nope, but not through lack of trying
giving them a talk about the birds and bees ?
I didn't get paid for that, I don't think they took a blind bit of notice anyway

[Wideboy]

posh word for someone who makes reservations for a hotel aka reservations agent (James Bond Stylee)

okee, me understand

[Kate Moss]

okee, me understand


u sure! can explain further...

[Wideboy]

daaaaaaaaahhh........ nah me finks me got it

[Biker Biggles]

There was me thinking you were in charge of an area of land set aside for Indians.:rolleyes:

[Kate Moss]

daaaaaaaaahhh........ nah me finks me got it

ok if you're sure!!!