What was your very first proper job?

Best job I ever had? Waitress at a holiday camp. Went with a friend and we had a wonderful time. Met my husband - he was a camper!

I worked in the West End at at 15 I got a job as a 'junior' at C&A Modes as it was known then. I was in ladies dresses & underwear. We juniors had to start an hour earlier than the others to clean all the mirrors and there were loads and remove dust sheets from the racks which were put on every night. I loved it though especially when tasked with bringing up stock in the in the service lift where wed laugh and joke with boys from menswear or the posh boys who were trainee buyers. We'd meet at lunch time and walk down Oxford st to HMV to listen to records in the booths. I earnt £4.10s a fortune to me.

I left school on a Friday, started work the following Monday, as a Clerical Assistant for N.A.A.F.I., in the offices in town. I worked 9-5, and earned £18.56. That was in 1975.

I was the youngest member of a professional kitchen staff and being untrained did the routine jobs like buttering bread for sandwiches , slicing tomatoes and cucumbers, cleaning salads and other greens, peeling potatoes and carrots and cleaning fridges.

I was 16, most of the other girls in the kitchen were trained and in their early twenties, but they were a nice bunch, and as one of them said, "We all remember what peeling hard-boiled eggs for hours was like, so you leave those to me and go and help Jean set out the cold buffet for lunch."

I learned a lot from those nice girls, especially what a difference it made to be treated kindly and not as a skivvy because you were just out of school.

HowVeryDareYou

I left school on a Friday, started work the following Monday, as a Clerical Assistant for N.A.A.F.I., in the offices in town. I worked 9-5, and earned £18.56. That was in 1975.

I've gone all 3 Yorkshire men here. £18.56 blimey. I earned 11 and 6 in my first real job, in London, My digs were 7.50, with breakfast only (toast and a cup of tea).

1970!

When I was arts school I worked in a seaside cafe which I was often in charge of at the age of 15. Had to collect the float in the morning and cash up at the end of the day as well as serve and order supplies. Seems crazy now but quite acceptable then. I then went on to work as a waitress, look after children in a boarding school at weekend - get them up, feed them, washing clothes, entertain, bathing etc but when I moved to London for teacher training I worked In Lloyds overseas department in the city in my holidays. Really enjoyed that asa holiday job but would hate to have been there full time. From then on I was a teacher til I retired.

Ooops. Should say when I was at school

MissAdventure

I had lots of jobs while I was still at school, but my first one when I left was a dental nurse, the same as DanniRae.

I really loved that job! Gruesome enough to appeal, lovely patients, and a white coat and Scholls.

MissAdventure - SNAP!!

A crisp factory in the dispatch department, I loved it, it will always be my best loved job.

Think at the time there were only few flavours of crisp, they would shuffle down on this big spiral and we could just eat them as we passed (we even cooked crips for M n S)

Istill love a bag of crisp to this day.