First place you worked.

[Stato]

Dewhurst factory in Hendon.

Young warehouse lad at 16,and got my eyes well opened.
Fanny everywhere and none stop bucking for years.
Take me back to the early 90s.

 

[Kevj]

Paper round from twelve, but first proper job was in Ku. f***ing loved it.

 

[Al Bundy]

Cuspo Rollershutter factory on Riverside Road.
Proper good lads worked there , great times.

 

[Deleted member 2014]

British Steel Corporation, Hartlepool (South Durham, Works)
Started in 1979, a couple of months after leaving school.
Was there from the age of 16 to 26.
It was long shifts and hard graft, but I loved it there, and only left, because of compulsory redundancy.

 

[Son of Stan]

Saturday job at Newcastle Central Library. And I'll never forget someone asking the lass I was shelving books with where the books on general aptitude were. 'Which war was he in?' she asked.

 

[Kevj]

British Steel Corporation, Hartlepool (South Durham, Works)
Started in 1979, a couple of months after leaving school.
Was there from the age of 16 to 26.

Is that the pipe mill?

 

[Cheesy Feet]

Sunderland Shipbuilders..apprentice Plater..started 7th July 1980.

 

[Struts]

Stadium of Light at 18. Worked on the top floor and on the boxes.

 

[tunstall birdman]

Dewhurst factory in Hendon.

Young warehouse lad at 16,and got my eyes well opened.
Fanny everywhere and none stop bucking for years.
Take me back to the early 90s.

I worked opposite there at Vedrapack Printers and we used to watch the yellow flange walk by as we ate our bait at dinner time.
I remember a few of the lads once taped a little gobshite who had just started and winding them up like fuck, to the fence naked and the lasses had fun laughing and pointing at his cock.

 

[Jon Dough]

Cutting grass on the sports fields in south hylton,crap money YTS and I learnt nowt (except how to cut grass of course).

 

[Deleted member 2014]

Is that the pipe mill?

There were a few different mills, mate.
I worked in No.4 Plate Mill, but eventually ended up in one of the pipe mills, towards the end of my time there.

 

[The Hesford Diet]

Pitsea Market. As featured on People Just Do Nothing.

 

[becs]

Laboratory in Vaux Brewery

 

[vidal baboon]

Thorn Lighting in Spennymoor August 1986 as an apprentice. Ended up in the drawing office for 15 year

 

[tonyfromalnwick]

Lloyds bank. Hated office work.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Sunday paper round
Worked on a farm Saturday job
Grouse beater from the age of 13 to 16
Joined the RN September 74.

 

[PinzaC55]

Electrosil on Pallion Trading Estate. Hated it and glad when they gave me the boot when I finished my apprenticeship.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Paper round near the wavy aged 12, when I turned 18 did a part time job at Bookers in Hendon till I went to Uni.

 

[Skandhaless]

Bootham engineers York at age 16 . Shite, had to leave the house 6.30 on a morning, 4 miles on a push bike to get a van to Scarborough to a training school, reverse it to get home at 6.30 pm.

 

[look out piano]

A secretarial role / YTS at Washington Graphics that I started in 1993 - loved it, nice folks but the company only lasted a few years after. I then started work at the Child Benefit centre which was absolute hell from the training and beyond.