What job did you do as a teenager?

Since the age of 16 I always worked in the hospitality industry - pubs, restaurants, hotels. I loved it, and it's always made me very respectful when I go out for meals or go on holiday!!!

Worked in the office of a flying club.

I worked in the staff canteen at Debenhams initially. My job was to make the sandwiches that went in the vending machines and restock the drinks machines!

I then worked at Lloyds Chemist for the rest of my yoof.

Tesco cashier, then worked in loal off licence. Later sold icecream for Lyons Maid, wholesale.

My first Saturday/After school job was working in a bakery - I was a dab hand at making garlic bread and yelling 2 for the price of 1.

I then worked in an opticians on a reception and also in a local pub.

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Silver service, usually doing weddings or Christmas parties.

Means I am always kind to waiters/ waitresses and had soem very definite ideas about what I did/didn't want when I got married!

Tesco cashier, then temping when I threw a hissy fit and left sixth form ?

I worked in a market on a costume jewellery stall, which I LOVED. I also worked in a clothes shop, a bakers and an estate agents.

Sat jobs - veg shop (lasted one day and walked), shoe shop, dept store on tills
evening jobs - icing sugar packing
holiday jobs - clothes tagging, filing at insurance place, dept store on tills

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Shop assistant in a newsagents and then poundstretcher

picking strawberries

turning raspberries upside down with a toothpick

picking daffodils

cutting lettuce

packing in potato and fruit packhouses

packing african violets and poinsettias.

grading brussels sprouts

i can't remember them all ? but i know a lot about veg

Lots of babysitting from 12, then/ and worked in a cattery, cleaning (lots of) feeding, brushing the cats and having them sit on my shoulder after climbing up me. paid £2 an hour (10 years ago)

I got a job as a paper girl at he age of 12 where I did a daily round early in the morning and then a weekly round every Thursday (freebie paper). When I turned 14 I got a job in the local Butlins Hotel and made sandwiches and cups of tea every Saturday and Sunday. The at 15 got a job in the local Beach Cafe, again serving tea and coffee every Saturday and Sunday during term time and then during the holiday I worked 7 days a week for £1.50 an hour! I got a full-time job in H Samuals when I left school at 16, then joined the army at 17.

This sounds cool, and to be honest, it was. When I left school I was full of teenage bravado and besides applying for college I also applied to loads of agencies to get a job in London. I was absolutely brimming with confidence about my (non existent) talents and managed to land a job at Siren / 10 records in The Portobello Road. So hip it ached. My only problem was that the job was as a junior in accounts and maths is, to put it kindly, not my strong subject. I spent three months there and eventually left (before they sacked me) to take up my place on a fashion course. I still can't believe how brimming in confidence I was given my circumstances at that time.

edited to add that Siren /10 was a record label (part of Virgin), not a record shop.

I worked at WHSmith

Waitress

assistant at a pharmacy

shoe shop

Asda cashier

ran the swimming pool cafe

ran a cafe on the beach

chambermaid

waitress

Waitress

assistant at a pharmacy

shoe shop

Asda cashier

ran the swimming pool cafe

ran a cafe on the beach

chambermaid

waitress

I had a Sunday morning paper round, a shelf stacking job in Walter Wilson and a Saturday job at Greggs. Not all at the same time though

My first Sarurday job was in a little bakery. It was great getting bags full of leftover cream cakes and pies at the end of a shift but, as I got older and discovered what Friday nights were for, greasing baking trays and washing out bowls of gravy at 7am became a nightmare ?

I worked in a dog kennels, walking the dogs and shovelling sh*t. I also did some packing in a tinsel factory during my summers, which I hated.

Had the obligatory paper round (bonus was that it was only once a week) and then worked as a waitress at our local football club.

Burger King (from the age of 14 -17) - not entirely legal; got taken on purely because I was Scottish (in Essex), as was the boss, and was told to lie about my age in my induction.

Harrods Chocolate Hall (17 to 18) - got a tad overweight as we were allowed to taste the chocolates so we could describe acurately what we were selling - kept conveniently forgetting what the Amaretto Truffels tasted like!

Au Pair in France for a year (18-19) - fantastic experience, not so great two days in when toddler number one had a tantrum and split his lip bashing his head off the carpet and I didn't know the word for 'tantrum', only 'angry' and in my panic forgot to say it was HIM that was angry and not me! Cue very worried looks from the mother as I approached her covered in blood (burst lips are a bugger), her babe in my arms and saying me "angry, angry, angry" desperately trying to make her understand me!

PS the French for tantrum is colere (with various accents - I shall never forget it now!)

Weekly Paper Round, 2 x bakeries, 3 x waitressing / cafes, 1 x washing up in a pub kitchen (ugh!), Gateway Supermarket, 2 x Stuffing Envelopes, Working for my Dad (bookkeeping)

I loved waitressing and would go back to it in a heartbeat if my career went tits up and I needed the money.

I was a lifeguard at the local swimming pool. It was an OK job, it paid better than most of my friends jobs, you had to be qualified to do it and I made lots of long term freinds during my time.

From the age of 16 I had an office job every school and uni holiday, working for a leisure machine company. I became full time when I took my year out after uni.

Waitress for Pizzaland and then Bella Pasta.

Safeway tills - best social life I ever had! The 7:30 starts on a Sunday were hell though ?

I wish I could remember how to be up drinking all night (and not fall over after 3), go to bed at 4am and start work at 8am and then do it all again. If I drink after 9pm on a school night I'm dying the whole next day and in my bed straight from work - I'm officially a lightweight now [:'(]

I worked in a cool clothes shop in town called 'Alleycats', it was great as I used to get loads of trendy clothes really cheap!

Bakery and then petrol station. Bakery was a magnificent £1.60 an hour when I started so I was thrilled to move on to the petrol station 2 years later for £2.70 an hour.

Saturday girl in Miss Selfridge then as an office junior in a PR agency in my gap year. Discount clothes at the first and free beer at the second!

From the age of 15 up until I finished school and started full time work I was a checkout girl at the co op on saturdays. Also I used to work there a couple of days a week in the school holidays. In those days we didn't have as much scanning as they do now so you had to remember lots of numbers for items and key them all in (probably helped me in my work as a secretary now!). Also lots of people would pay by cheque which meant writing all the details on the back or else by card using one of the old carbon copy machines. <old fogey icon>

There was a good crowd working there though and we used to have a really good laugh ?

I had 5 jobs during teenagerhood. Firstly I worked as a saturday girl in a hairdresser, getting paid £1 an hour plus tips. I then left there and worked Saturdays as the receptionist in an Opticians. I then bagged a job as a foot fitter for StartRite in a shoe shop, then saturdays and thursday evenings at M&S (this started as a Christmas temp job, then I was offered a permanent job 3 days after my Christmas contract ended), then I did a few weeks as an office cleaner, which I hated with a passion.

I didnt do anything, I was a kept teenager until I left school aged nearly 19 and joined the Civil Service.?