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Static-X
Joined: 18/12/2008 Posts: 197
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 00:44 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 37 in Discussion |
| This should produce some chuckles . . . |
Arthur
Joined: 04/11/2008 Posts: 687
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 00:51 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 37 in Discussion |
| Holiday job working in DHSS. Started writing giros. Then processed sickness benefit claims. Then taught other people how to do it............................all in ten weeks between leaving school and going to Poly [back in 1973] |
batterboy58
Joined: 20/04/2008 Posts: 442
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 01:16 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 37 in Discussion |
| Helping to paint the Humber Bridge Stood in the boat and held the ladder. |
batterboy58
Joined: 20/04/2008 Posts: 442
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 01:24 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 4 of 37 in Discussion |
| Underwater Basketweaver |
eager
Joined: 23/02/2007 Posts: 1272
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 01:31 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 37 in Discussion |
| Lather boy in a maternity hospital. |
witchfinder
Joined: 10/04/2008 Posts: 155
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 02:09 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 6 of 37 in Discussion |
| I was a muff-diver's whinchman |
Steve1953
Joined: 04/12/2008 Posts: 298
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 02:18 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 7 of 37 in Discussion |
| wringer out for one armed window cleaner,Steve |
Tiggy
Joined: 25/07/2007 Posts: 1994
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 02:23 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 8 of 37 in Discussion |
| Diesel fitter in a Bra shop. |
Blackpoolfan
Joined: 03/12/2008 Posts: 1568
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 02:36 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 9 of 37 in Discussion |
| Rent boy on the Love Boat...... |
Bladerunner
Joined: 10/01/2009 Posts: 204
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 07:46 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 10 of 37 in Discussion |
| Sweeping light into dark corners. |
trncoldboy
Joined: 02/02/2009 Posts: 182
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 08:00 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 11 of 37 in Discussion |
| Bathroom Attendant to HENRY VIII. It was like mucking out at Chester zoo. |
Littlenige
Joined: 24/12/2006 Posts: 3594
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 08:06 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 12 of 37 in Discussion |
| Working in a slaughter house aged 12, I had to stir the blood as it was collected all the corpuscles stuck to my arm then the blood was saved to make black puddings. |
simbas
Joined: 16/07/2007 Posts: 5943
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 09:22 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 13 of 37 in Discussion |
| Pre- Nurse in a Geriatric Hospital before my Training . |
fire starter
Joined: 19/06/2008 Posts: 3401
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 11:57 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 14 of 37 in Discussion |
| i worked making food in a pub in high beech. had a great time as i was only age 14 yrs,lol. it was my saturday and sunday job! |
martinev
Joined: 24/10/2008 Posts: 320
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:01 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 15 of 37 in Discussion |
| Looking after a cinema of screaming kids at the Granada, Walthamstow every Saturday morning. |
Lilli
Joined: 21/07/2008 Posts: 13081
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:19 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 16 of 37 in Discussion |
| saturday girl at woolworths. After leaving college secretary in the carpet industry. loved them both. I was on the make up counter in woolies I can still smell that Caloforian Popppy perfume. |
batterboy58
Joined: 20/04/2008 Posts: 442
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:19 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 17 of 37 in Discussion |
| Marine Coatings Technician Fish Frier |
sparta
Joined: 24/10/2008 Posts: 226
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:20 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 18 of 37 in Discussion |
| Genaral .. dogs body |
cronos
Joined: 26/10/2008 Posts: 2093
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:21 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 19 of 37 in Discussion |
| Msg 17 Aaaaaaah.......hence "Batterboy" |
martinev
Joined: 24/10/2008 Posts: 320
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:25 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 20 of 37 in Discussion |
| Nice one John. I used to sell pensions and had one guy whose official job description named him as a "PSV Directional Operative" Bus Driver |
batterboy58
Joined: 20/04/2008 Posts: 442
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:31 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 21 of 37 in Discussion |
| I feel sorry for all the Fudge Packers out there, who have had to come up with new job titles in recent times |
darrener2
Joined: 30/12/2008 Posts: 187
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 12:34 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 22 of 37 in Discussion |
| Rag sorter in a factory in Salford 7 - and it was every bit as grim as it sounds. Fiona |
Baspinar Bob
Joined: 15/02/2008 Posts: 618
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 14:21 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 23 of 37 in Discussion |
| I worked in the jewelers, clearing the sh.t out of cuckoo clocks. Bob |
kenny
Joined: 26/05/2008 Posts: 405
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 14:26 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 24 of 37 in Discussion |
| test pilot with airfix ! |
cruggs
Joined: 06/04/2008 Posts: 498
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 14:53 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 25 of 37 in Discussion |
| test pilot for the kamikaze------1941+ 1946,then as a moll diggers apprentice finished up working for british intelag intellagince-----mi5. |
keithr
Joined: 20/08/2008 Posts: 720
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 15:04 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 26 of 37 in Discussion |
| Deckhand on a submarine... |
batterboy58
Joined: 20/04/2008 Posts: 442
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 15:11 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 27 of 37 in Discussion |
| "hydro porcelein technician". Toilet cleaner |
trncoldboy
Joined: 02/02/2009 Posts: 182
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 20:42 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 28 of 37 in Discussion |
| Had a job in Nottingham Piecework , measuring the holes in POLO Mints |
dalartokat
Joined: 14/04/2008 Posts: 734
Message Posted: 07/02/2009 20:44 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 29 of 37 in Discussion |
| Saturday girl in Littlewoods, Bromley |
breezyboy
Joined: 14/05/2007 Posts: 1179
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 19:10 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 30 of 37 in Discussion |
| Fuel replenishment technician.....petrol pump attendent.....Saturdays 1964/5 at £1 per day plus 4 shillings in tips average. Petrol was 4s10p or 5s2p for super. Thats 24p or 26p PER GALLON / 4.55 litres. Oh God I am old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
snakes
Joined: 28/10/2008 Posts: 1512
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 19:12 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 31 of 37 in Discussion |
| Red coat Butlins Brighton summer season 1970 had to give up for health reasons !!!!!!!!! |
jakki
Joined: 23/10/2007 Posts: 865
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 20:03 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 32 of 37 in Discussion |
| I started a job in the City (London) some thirty odd years ago. A person working on another floor recognised my surname, apparently my cousin had worked in the same office block a few years before me. I told my cousin this a couple of months ago, she couldn't believe it!! |
The-Wicks
Joined: 27/05/2007 Posts: 2279
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 20:33 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 33 of 37 in Discussion |
| My first proper job, not Saturday, was Nat West Chancery Lane & Holborn branch. I liked it there but got promoted & transferred to Temple Bar branch. It all went down hill after I called Justice Melford Stevenson (posh judge) mate. P |
guzgog
Joined: 19/01/2009 Posts: 4
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 20:41 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 34 of 37 in Discussion |
| age 15, weekend job at cape hill brewary in, birmingham vat cleaner, but still got 2 pint per day beer allowance. Wanted to carry on when i left school, but my dad smacked me round the head and told me to learn a trade. 28 years on, still an engineer. |
eager
Joined: 23/02/2007 Posts: 1272
Message Posted: 09/02/2009 23:48 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 35 of 37 in Discussion |
| Tea stirers mate |
trncoldboy
Joined: 02/02/2009 Posts: 182
Message Posted: 10/02/2009 00:08 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 36 of 37 in Discussion |
| 1ST Job. Work Study Assistant at Courtaulds Weaving Mill Norwich. Nearly caused a mass Walkout when I messed up the Bonus Payments during my Boss's absence. |
Static-X
Joined: 18/12/2008 Posts: 197
Message Posted: 12/02/2009 14:51 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 37 of 37 in Discussion |
| lol trnccoldboy xD |
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