First place you worked.

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Three months with a safety device company in North Shields.

It gave me an insight into getting on with lads on the shop floor (i.e. hard knocks) and getting "friendly" with pretty young secretaries.:)
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Cummins Engines, Darlington. Started July 1969. I was a 'Materials Planner' in the engine plant, keeping track of stock levels for all the widgets they needed to make big diesel engines. A couple of years later a mate showed me how computer coding worked, and wrote six lines of code that would have done my entire job. I left after a year and never had a job again (except student summer jobs at Pyrex, Lecky Board etc).
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Interviewed down there a few years ago. It looked an okay place to work. They now have a lunchtime cardio gym.
 
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Paper round at Barrys newsagents in Carrville circa 1980
1983 - YTS scheme at Janet Frazers in Hendon. Started seeing a lovely girl who worked there. First love at 17. The YTS lasted until May 1984 when I joined the army. The girl a year later. Still have regrets about how I finished with her.
 
Glass collector in steels club. Worked the NYE going into 1995 and got £159 in tips because the other 3 twats rang in sick. I was 14 and that money made me a millionaire for a week.
Joined the royal navy at 16, spent 2 years as a steward but got medically discharged because if my knees (they're fucked). Worked security around Newcastle a few years and hated it then moved to Wolverhampton with a mate where I worked in banking for Barclays and West Bromwich Building society. Got sacked from the latter for playing champ man. 😂

Moved to Spain, worked the rep thing then came home and managed at Game, Gamestation, Another World, CEX and Grainger Games.

Work in transport now and it's shit.
 
Worked a short while at LEC in Bognor Regis installing starter motors in chest freezers. When I came home got a YTS at Homeworthy. Originally in the IT dept but moved onto the drafting side.
 
From school went for an interview with Gwenik Alarms (spelling?) in Boldon, I got the job but the factory burnt down before I started. Started for Crawfords the builders as a joiner, I was there for 4 years until they closed down. I think Cowies bought out Gwenik Alarms.
 
Easington Colliery Club, pot lad started at 13, worked there for 3 years until I left school. Started off working just on a Saturday night for £7.50, when I left I was doing Friday Saturday and Sunday nights as pit lad and doing the bottling up as well, earning £45 a week which was a fortune at the time for a lad still at school.
 
The Northern Rock call centre at Doxy answering calls about them changing from a building society to a bank. Turns out people get quite angry when it comes to getting basically free money. Still, it was a canny bunch of people to work with who enjoyed a drink and a night out so it was a canny laugh.
 
Prescription Pricing Authority on Green Lane in Durham, used to do 3 x 4-hour shifts a week for £57 which at 16/17 year old in 1999-2000 was enough to live like a king on a Friday night.

The graft was absolutely tedious like but there’s worse things to do.
 
Dougal Reed garage in Sunniside, YTS £30 for 50 hours a week at 16. First proper job was with Chester council cutting the grass but was seasonal so didn't last long.
 
First proper job was at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Safety and Reliability Directorate, in culcheth near warrington. About 15grand a year back in 1989. Mostly the job was doing human reliability analysis in support of nuclear safety cases and getting pissed.
 
Worked on street lighting for the Public Works during the college summer holidays. Enjoyed it apart from the occasional trip into the Hendon garths when the little scratters would come out and climb all over the wagon and nick stuff. Had to be a military planned operation in the end, get in there at the crack of dawn before the little bastards woke up.
 
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First proper job was at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Safety and Reliability Directorate, in culcheth near warrington. About 15grand a year back in 1989. Mostly the job was doing human reliability analysis in support of nuclear safety cases and getting pissed.
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Decent money that marra back in the day, even better with the drinking bonus.
 
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First proper job was at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Safety and Reliability Directorate, in culcheth near warrington. About 15grand a year back in 1989. Mostly the job was doing human reliability analysis in support of nuclear safety cases and getting pissed.
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Are you Homer Simpson?
 
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