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Where you worked then?

In chronological order:

Paperboy for 2 or 3 years when I was 13
Occasionally painting & decorating with my dad
Lab technician at a soil analysis lab
Parcel sorter (only got 2 days work over the space of 3 weeks for a crap temp agency)
Grounds maintenace technician (basically a parkie & grasscutter!)
Photographer & shop/lab worker in a photo shop at a Haven holiday park (which was less than a mile away from a land fill site)
Lab technician again at an effluent analysis lab of a water company
Bar associate (i.e. pub worker) at wetherspoons (i.e. wankers)

Now I'm unemployed, wohoo!
 
I've been...

Paperboy (got sacked after bunking off all the time)
Order Picker at a Burtons warehouse
Warehouse dogsbody at a Kwiksave warehouse
Soda siphon crate stacker at a Britvic bottling plant
Display dismantler at a construction exhibition in a quarry in Derbyshire (only for one day, but the hardest thing I've ever done physically)
Barman
Civil servant (for the past ten years)

That's it - not much variety really.
 
Babysitter after school for 4 years
KFC (after school)
Supermarket
KFC
Apprentice Chef
Screenprinting factory labourer
Admin in architects
Admin in building co
Cleaner
Picked gherkins
Admin in newspaper
Waitress in chinese
Waitress in thai
Worked in shop
Worked in posh fish & chippy
Admin in television co
Ever since various tv jobs leading to producer, but have had to go back at times and do temp work to pay rent - thankfully not for the last few years
 
Paintball Marshal
Milkman
Petrol pump attendant (one of the worst)
Farm labourer
General labourer
Barman
Commis chef
Silver service waiter
Dish washer
Assistant ICT support
Special Needs Children transport cordinator (silly job title)
Communications support (for a week!)
Nursing assistant
Domestic assistant
Freelance graphic design
Graphic designer
Reprographics
Art restoration
General layabout
 
babysitter
shop assistant - barratts
shop assistant - asda
shop assistant - mothercare
Bar staff (beer tents)
Bar staff (posho wine bar)
door to door canvasser for video rental service
au pair (Italy)
warehouse order picker
city messenger
teacher
receptionist
cinema manager (including bar manager and licencee)
headhunter (telesales, by another name)
supply teacher
actor
ann summers party organiser (dildos were my business)
workshop leader
mustard demonstrator
 
paperboy
greengrocer
warehouse assistant
co-op member in a veggie cafe/alternative bookshop co-op
post office sorter
market researcher
telesales
office admin
freelance webdesigner/researcher
freelance I.T. trainer
education/employment advice worker in addictions field
 
Shop Assistant
General operative in a warehouse (shell suits)
Courier warehouse operative
Barman in several 'guns on the table' type pubs
Tutor to a brat belonging to Italian fascists
Feature writer
Call centre monkey
Network admin in a university
Software developer
 
Short-order-cook (one or both days at the weekend) + Kitchen porter at a different place on Sat. night (3 years, 16-19)
Night Person (Travelodge)
European exports administrator for a farmed Salmon company
Kitchen Porter
Aquatics sales manager and general dogsbody in a garden centre
Barman
Fishing Tackle shop supervisor & head "bollocks story inventor"
Van driver
Car-park attendant (Christmas)
Fish wholesale sales representative
School Caretaker
 
Shop assistant in my brother in laws handbag shop. He used to make leather handbags and I'd stamp the designs on :cool:
Potato Picker
Cashier - Richard Shops
Casher - Benetton
Voluntary work at Basildon Hospital in the shop
Cleaner
Deli Asst - Sainsburys
Office asst to a Greek importer in Knightsbridge - he was a real perv and I didn't last long :mad:
Hotel Reservations Clerk
Magistrates Clerk - temping but as soon as they offered me a full time job I left! Too depressing taking peoples fines all day :(
Admin at a well known retailers Head Office for 15 years in various departments

Now at home all day doing nothing! :rolleyes:
 
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