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Hairdresser assistant saturdays only. loved it. i was 13 at the time.
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Worked as a Saturday girl at local chemist during last year of school, Wanted to join Police force but couldn't get in, so day after I had interview, the owner of the chemist offered me a full time job, took that and by the time I left 5 years later (due to getting married to a squaddie and going out to Cyprus) I was helping him dispense the prescriptions, Wish I had done some training for that as I used to enjoy doing it.

Helen

left school at 16 on the Friday and started working for the Prudential on the Monday - was a typist in a typing pool started off on the lowest grade TT - (trainee typist) and worked my way to the top when I left after 19 years was typing supervisor.

My first full time job was as a baker. Loved my job but fell pregnant and not been back :( Hi to all btw. Lynette xx

I started work the day after my 16th birthday on a YTS scheme which was to run for 6 months at a clothing alterations shop.

My wage was £25 a week and after a month they offered me the job for real after the 6 months were up.

I stayed there for 8 years!

Sandra.
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mine was nannys helper to a Duke,,,,,,,!!

My first full time job was working on the Isle of Wight ferries. It was only by chance through family history that I realized that there was over a 200 year history of generations of ferryman going right back to what were first called Wherries ( Rowing boats ) and also discovering ancestors who served on HMS Victory

I had a few Saturday jobs - one was in BHS, the other on a clothing stall in an indoor market.

I could have left school at 15 with no qualifications but didnt want to end up working full time in a shop or factory - so stayed on another year and learnt to type.

First week after I left school my older sister was told to take me into town and get me a job. We went to an agency and I was working by the end of the week as a receptionist/telephonist/typist for a small company of quantity surveyors.

I actually wanted to be a florist but when my parents found out how little an apprentice florist was paid, they said that wasnt enough and they were not prepared to support me for 5 years.

But it was ok for my smarmy brother to become a low paid apprentice!

My sister was/is a very good artist and had the chance to go to art college after school - that wasnt allowed either.

Are we girls bitter? Just a tad. lol

I worked in a jewellers as a sales assistant, the manager was lovely, it was only a tiny shop but here were 5 of us and we would sit looking at one another 'cos there weren't many customers. Stayed 4 week then went to work with a crazy bunch at Etams
Janet

posh bird CW

After Uni I joined as an apprentice with a travel agency-stayed there a few years then was offered a job with Thomson Holidays-stayed there many years-I became a supervisor-and we dealt with travel agents queries-the best bit was the cheap and freebie holidays-and the fun we had was great-

I got bored though and was offered a job with an advertising agency-completely different to the holiday industry-I was a PA to 2 company directors-brill place to work-stayed there a few years-then was offered a job with a posh firm of International Property Surveyors-was good but the chauvenistic surveyors did my head in-

then I took some time out-spent time with the kids and now work for OH in his Advertising Business-whilst doing my teacher training-

catherine
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ive still got the photos

i was a stripper

I left college and worked for a little while in a chicken factory when I was 18 in Sep/Oct 2000.

Before that I did occasional work helping out my dad's mate at his business while still at school.

Had a job in a music shop in the centre of Manchester.Loved it....but had to leave it as I got a job better paid at I.C.I.with more prospects as my mum needed the money.Used to hand over your wage packet then and get a little pocket money!!!How times have changed!
Brenda x x

I had a couple of Saturday jobs before I left school --CO-OP , MARSHALLS CHICKEN FACTORY , TELFERS WAREHOUSE -SOLD SHOES.
Then started nurses training in 1971 -still nurse now , Ros xx

When i left collage i went and became a dental nurse

(i took a diploma in a secetarial course didnt fancy a 9-5)

stayed there for several years

julia x

ps am still terrified of the dentist

Worked in an Estate Agents for a year when i left school. Then starting my training.

I joined the (then) DHSS working on sickness benefit claims, wage £4.15.00 p.w.

There were no glass partitions and 'clients' were usually polite. Oh those were the days....lol

Sue x

I was an office junior at a factory where they made pianos
Margaret