Interesting jobs..

Started by Scrumpy, Yesterday at 07:57:16 PM

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Scrumpy

I never qualified for anything clever...
I didn't pass any exams .. But looking back I have worked at some interesting places..
The pickle factory was an eye opener.. I was just a kid and heard some interesting things from the mature women who worked there..
I have been a barmaid.. Saw another side to the 'posh' rugby players that came in after a game..
Cinema usherette.. Turning away when seeing a kid sitting in the 'posh' seats when they should be in the cheaper seats at the front.. Carrying an ice cream tray during the intervals.. Lovers sitting at the back..
The betting shop.. Local veg shop..
Dinner lady at the college being chatted up by the 'cheeky' students..
It's all been fun..
And not many people can say that..



Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

Mups

Neither did I qualify at any clever job,  Scrumps, though I was eventually a Carer.

I've had so many jobs in my lifetime,  not sure if I can remember them all even.

I was an apprentice hairdresser straight from school,  then left and went on to office work,  and was a typist for a few years.
 Later in life I worked in the village Co-op  (yes really  :smiley:),  then the  village pub,  followed by a little bakery shop,  and school cleaner, then a  Sainsbury's cafe at lunchtimes,  two more village pubs, then in the kitchen of an old folks home.  I then moved into their laundry department,  and finally ended up becoming a Carer there for ten years before my retirement.

Oh,  I forgot about working in two boarding kennels too,  and did a cleaning job for my vet at the time too.    :smiley:

CHF

Paper round, barmaid, cleaner, laundry worker, Insurance Agent (twice),
sales assistant in a store that sold everything, a shop assistant, a store
manager.
The worst, a laundry worker, boring. The best, a shop assistant and store manager.
I enjoyed the insurance work until an obnoxious manager made me leave. After 
about a year, he was moved, so I went back. 

Scrumpy


Mups worked at the Co-op.. !!!  :grin: :grin:
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

Mups

Quote from: Scrumpy on Today at 09:00:33 AMMups worked at the Co-op.. !!!  :grin: :grin:
Yes,  'tis true.   :smiley:

Vlad

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I went to a Catholic school so I learned nothing except that I was going to hell.

I joined the Army at 15, and was kicked out 15 and 3/4 after being a tad naughty and spending time in the nick.

Worked at a leathers works grading sheepskin that came in barrels from Australia and New Zealand also learned to rebuild wooden barrels

Worked in parts department for a garage

Worked in Masons a grocery store ..got sacked for wearing a red silk shirt to work

Joined the Army again at 17, did lots of different jobs, radio operator ( learned Morse)

Spec Op (Specialist Operator) monitoring East German Military Radio Broadcasts  in Dannenburg on the East/West German Border

Ground to Air Radio Op with SHAPE in Paris, many a radio chat with Air Force One.

Lots of different jobs in various sandpits in the Middle East


Then a Military Training Instructor training recruits in the UK

Last posting, Lisburn NI very painful, got a War Pension for injuries received

Then I became a civilian working for an international security company as a trainer

Retired at 59, I had enough, I didn't like being a civvie.