What Were Your Best And Worst Jobs?

[Delbow]

One job I could not do, because I'd be fired after about 5 minutes, is Registrar of births and deaths.

 

"And what name have you given him?"

 

"Jayzon"

 

"Get out"

[Mr Allen]

2 hours ago, Delbow said:

One job I could not do, because I'd be fired after about 5 minutes, is Registrar of births and deaths.

 

"And what name have you given him?"

 

"Jayzon"

 

"Get out"

  

 

 

[ab6262]

best when i was young 17-18 best job i had was one of the chefs at the Fiesta Nightclub what a time for a young teen!! older waitresses that should have known better, see all the major stars of the time for free and then take them food backstage.

 

worst was a few years later when i drove hgvs for an agency , one day there was no work so was sent to a bottling plant taking crates off a conveyor belt and taking bottles out to go in a washer, i lasted 20 mins repetitive boring no thanks!

 

thats when i decided to work for myself and never again for someone else, best choice ever made!

 

[alchresearch]

Worst job was a junior engineer at a company off Carlisle Street.  £2.50 an hour (1995), same rate for days and nights. 

 

Nights were awful as it was a huge building with no heating.   People would wear long johns and several layours, bring in their own heaters, or even burn wood in an oil drum to keep warm.  

[Delbow]

2 hours ago, alchresearch said:

Worst job was a junior engineer at a company off Carlisle Street.  £2.50 an hour (1995), same rate for days and nights. 

 

Nights were awful as it was a huge building with no heating.   People would wear long johns and several layours, bring in their own heaters, or even burn wood in an oil drum to keep warm.  

Even for 1995 that's a terrible wage. What a bunch of chancers!

[Padders]

11 minutes ago, Delbow said:

Even for 1995 that's a terrible wage. What a bunch of chancers!

Think he got that wrong, average wage for London in 1995 was £19000 per annum.

[Delbow]

5 minutes ago, Padders said:

Think he got that wrong, average wage for London in 1995 was £19000 per annum.

My first job in London was £12000 pa in 1996

[charliewag]

When I was made redundant in the late 90's I did a couple of months working for Sunblest bakery delivering bread to factories making pre packed sandwiches. The money was rubbish and the hours strange but I always came home with a bag full of various freshly made sandwiches which my wife and kids would take as pack up.

[Mr Allen]

On 12/05/2021 at 15:51, charliewag said:

When I was made redundant in the late 90's I did a couple of months working for Sunblest bakery delivering bread to factories making pre packed sandwiches. The money was rubbish and the hours strange but I always came home with a bag full of various freshly made sandwiches which my wife and kids would take as pack up.

So the money was rubbish but you came home with plenty of Bread?   

 

*gets coat*

 

[ECCOnoob]

On 12/05/2021 at 14:43, Padders said:

Think he got that wrong, average wage for London in 1995 was £19000 per annum.

 

On 12/05/2021 at 14:29, Delbow said:

Even for 1995 that's a terrible wage. What a bunch of chancers!

 

It could be right. After all, the national minimum wage act did not come into force until January 1999.

 

Even after that, wages for apprentices were still as little as £3.50 an hour.  

 

My first job in a law office was around that time and even as a qualified law graduate I was only pulling around £12.5K a year

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by ECCOnoob