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Wonderful time of my life.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Context. Beer 11p a pint.
Hence my love of The Two Ronnie's:
"the next sketch is set in a ball bearing factory where I play a man who has lost his bearings."
" and I play a man who has lost his way around "
I had to go like crazy for five minutes or so to get enough seconds ahead to be able to light a cigarette or bite a sandwich.
First part time job stacking shelves (well, filling freezers to be precise). First full-time job was at 19 after failing my first year exams at Polytechnic (having scraped in with less than glittering A level results). This was in 1983 and, having been unsuccessful at a couple of interviews, I took on the job of Junior Car Salesman at a Ford dealership thinking that it would do for a couple of months until I found something better. £40 per week, 5 1/2 days per week (well below minimum wage in today's money).
Although I didn't stay as a Salesman I stuck with the company for 5 years during which time I re-sat my Maths A level at night school (got a grade A) and left to read Physics at University.
I thought it would be great fun playing lots of lovely guitars for £3 per day
Fact was it wasn't fun polishing lots of guitars all day and getting told off if I played one
I also had to unpack boxes, check inventory.make coffee, and clean the windows
I was only allowed to plug in and demo a guitar if everybody else was with a customer and that wasn't often.
Got sacked for browsing airsoft guns too often.
£10 an hour, mon-fri... how I long for that now!
Then I got a temp job with hmv.
10.5 years later.. I'm still there...
Well.. I shouldnt complain.. could be on the dole next week...
First and only Saturday job was clearing tables in the Bentalls Centre food court in Kingston.
Original plan was to try hard at college, pass my A levels and become a physiotherapist. Unfortunately Sega Rally / pub and pool was what I invested my time in.
I flunked my A levels and got a job at an independent record shop in Sutton (where a mate already worked). Got paid fuck all but built up a ridiculously good (and large) record collection in a very short space of time, and went to some cracking label / launch parties. Shit job, but good perks.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
First thing approaching a real job was part-time for Bejam as a freezer stacker (no shelves ). They tried to persuade me to go permie instead of going to uni, but as the two most attractive Saturday girls were already banging the manager and the assistant manager there wasn't much incentive.
I’d do it again if it paid enough - when I think of the some of the stress I’ve endured in subsequent jobs..
Safeways, on Saturdays. I was put to work in the Café and told I was the first man ever to work there. Being a useless workshy 17 year old I did such an appalling job of clearing the tables I was swiftly moved to the fruit and veg section! There I worked under a total self important prick of a manager.
Then some mind numbingly boring jobs in a Laura Ashley's warehouse and manning the phone on the Kays Catalogue Order line.
First proper job was excellent; I got paid to walk around farms in Snowdonia, some of which included whole mountains, mapping habitats and features, for an agri-environment scheme.
When I was a student I had a summer job at a timber merchant's. I never got to do anything exciting like working in the sawmill, it was mostly just putting together orders and stacking planks, but I liked it and it was good exercise.
I also worked for a temp agency for a while, stuff like kitchen porter work - i.e. washing up. That was boring but did give me the opportunity to dazzle my temporary workmates with my ability to do the Sun quick crossword in about 5 seconds.
Also spent a couple of days in a Dairy Crest warehouse packing samples of a cheese called Melbury (it came out about the same time as Lymeswold, but was less popular). It was freezing cold to stop the cheese going off.
That's about it.
My feedback thread is here.
My first job after that was playing in a band on the weekends- weddings, parties and such.
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