Your first job is something you will never forget,i would like to know what you all did for your first job.Mine was at the Coalbrookdale iron foundry,i was a trainee loose pattern moulder,i was with the chap who made the cast iron mural of the Last Supper thats now in the Coalbrookdale church,how i wish i had stuck at that trade.

Funnily enough Brian, I say the same thing. I wish I'd stuck with my first trade -plumbing.
Started with Maddox and Baker who used to do all the plumbing for Fletcher Homes.

You were destined for better things,(May)

Ha! I''ll do my best anyway Brian. What about worst jobs too? One of mine was a stint at JP Woods (Chuckies) -working in the hatchery.Only good thing I can say about it was that the Travellers Rest pub (a49) was just across the road!

I left school in 1994 then went to college and university, I started my first job back in 1997 nearly 10 years ago very scary...

When I left uni I started designing web sites, then went to work for BT (which I still do during the week) producing the new phone book and now I also present on the radio.

I'm planning on leaving BT at the end of May to move into full freelance media/radio work along with web design.

Don't laugh please :unsure:

My first job was working for the newly opened Tasty Food chinese take away in Ditherington :lol:

It must have been in the early 80's.

Whats worse is they kindly let me go :lol: :lol: as apparently I never smiled at the customers... how embarrassing.
I think I was only about 15 :lol:

Wilf

I left school and went to college and university (which is how I know Chris) then free-lanced as web designer but ended up working at royal mail because it was more profitable with better job security and I'm still there 5 years later (hence why I know about the development rumours.)

I still do some web design now and then but mainly for my own projects or if anyone I know wants a quick site made.

Travellers Rest. A great little pub with nice people, I have been there a few times with a good friend of mine. She loves the pub especially as it has a Cluedo machine by the door.

First job: a summer job as the feed-the-scanner-with-paper monkey for a computer firm called Gateway Computing (nothing to do with the ones who sold PCs in shops), a small firm on the outskirts of Taunton, in summer 1994.

Worst job: three weeks in a factory packaging tomatoes (also Taunton) in 1998, just after graduation.

Best job: deputy senior editor for the technical communications team at a software house called RiverSoft in Richmond-upon-Thames, London (one of Hewlett-Packard's business partners).

But I like what I do now (freelance web designer/web applications developer for two clients in Shrewsbury and the odd one or two in the wider world), though I might move back to one of the big cities in a year or so if there's more interesting work there.

I don't consider this to be my first job, but I delivered newspapers by foot EVERYDAY for about two years when I was about 13 or 14. That was no picnic in central Illinois in the winter. One day 17 inches of snow fell in a 24-hour period. I had the entire family helping me that day.

My first paying job, I kept for four years while in high school and the first two years of college. I worked part-time and then full-time at a radio station. Had an on air shift, but mostly ran the board during remote broadcasts and did other production work, such as recording music and commercials.

Finished college...got a degree in business....decided that wasn't for me...and like an idiot, went back into radio. Finally, left radio for another job involving a radio. I was a dispatcher for the Louisiana State Police.

Best job is the one I have now and have had for nine years with the government. But, why did I wait so long to find it???!!!! Oh well, the path I went down got me here.

Never had a job I hated except for a two month period. Try selling advertising and convincing a potential client why they should buy ads on the station that was ranked 14th in a 17-station market! Sales was not for me.