What did you do before you joined up?

[Spardan]

Left school went to college and got a BTEC National diploma in ICT then spent a year looking for a job. Saw that the RAF was looking for IT technicians and that how it started.

So far so good though

 

[Don Key]

Kitchen Porter in a hotel. The hours were crap, the pay was ok and the waitresses were hot!

 

[dickweed]

Apart from the usual paper round and car washing to get money, once I had made the decision to join up, I then had about a year to kill before I could get in. My first job was in a hydraulics firm (H&D Hydraulics) in Trafford Park, assembling hydraulic hoses, Very boring.

Then and in order to work on my people skills I took a job as a hospital porter, but ended up in the mortuary moving the stiffs about and burning unwanted bits of bodies. DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[squaredaway]

Got bored of studying accountancy at Uni(it just wasn't for me), got a job at Michelin making tyres for six months to pay off student debts before joining up in 2000 as one of God's very own children.

 

[spike7451]

I worked in the back of a High street shop developing & printing wet film photos for £35 a week! (1983-84)

 

[Vushtrri]

I was a farm labourer in the garden of england..............then became a leckie!

 

[Mightierthan]

I had all sorts of jobs before joining up:

Trolley boy for a local supermarket - sacked!
Milk round during school holidays
Helping on a fruit & veg stall after school & Saturdays.

After pretending to do A levels for 6 months, like a few others on here I was asked if I may like to consider leaving school (before being thrown out).

My first job after leaving school was in a dog kennels. It was run from a big private house by a woman who looked about 150 years old. After 2 weeks of cleaning up after 20 dogs, bathing them and stopping them fighting etc, I left when I realised I was boiling steak for the dogs (some of them were worth over £10k - allegedly) and eating cheese sandwiches myself - the shame of eating their dinner while I was cooking it forced my hand!

I then got a 'real' job with the borough council in the housing dept. Part of the job involved the annual inspection of council houses - there were some sights there that still haunt me to this day! Catching fleas was one of the worst, along with dirty women lifting their skirts & propositioning us (always 2 people on the estates we covered, you never go alone!).

On a day out drinking in Cardiff I was walking past the CIO and with 2 pints inside me I popped in on a whim. A couple of months later I was getting off the train at Swinders; for me it was a very quick process!

 

[Drill Bit]

I swore and drank a lot less.

 

[Vman921]

Before joining up I packed 5 lb bags of potatoes at the local Kwick Save (before the EU brought in the metric system). I then blagged a place as a floor layers apprentice (Before getting sacked). Gave me all the right trade skills as a Peanut.
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[Bren]

Worked in a small family bakers during the bread strike of 1978. Made loads of money selling bread to the neighbours. Joined the RAF Feb 1979.

 

[John Lloyd]

Worked in't mill, with a guy who had 2 jobs in his working life, Russian convoys in the war and then t'mill. (Same mill)

Started at Swinderby last day of February 1979

 

[Teh Wal]

Worked in't mill, ...

In Rochdale by any chance?

 

[John Lloyd]

In Rochdale by any chance?

Why funnily enough, yup.

Surrounded by middle aged women, before MILFS where invented, these where just plain scarey

 

[Teh Wal]

Why funnily enough, yup.

Surrounded by middle aged women, before MILFS where invented, these where just plain scarey

OI! That's my grandma you're talking about!!! DT_Xtremez_19:

(I'm sure Les Dawson based "that" character on her DT_Xtremez_19

 

[John Lloyd]

OI! That's my grandma you're talking about!!! DT_Xtremez_19:

Did she have removable teeth?

 

[Teh Wal]

No...


...they were firmly attached to the plate in the glass by her bed.

(Sudden/Marland one set of grandparents and Norden/Castleton the other set. First set now in Rochdale cemetary. Other set in Lytham cemetary. DT_Xtremez_26 Proud of my Dale heritage - even tho none of them originated there DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[wgaf]

Occassionaly I used to wank animals off on the family farm. Purely for research purposes............. obviously.

 

[John Lloyd]

No...


...they were firmly attached to the plate in the glass by her bed.

(Sudden/Marland one set of grandparents and Norden/Castleton the other set. First set now in Rochdale cemetary. Other set in Lytham cemetary. DT_Xtremez_26 Proud of my Dale heritage - even tho none of them originated there DT_Xtremez_19:

'Tis a strange town indeed. And always worth a laugh with TV writers

 

[Teh Wal]

Yeah, strange but a good place (IMO) to have as your birth-town. I always feel very "warm" when I go there... more often than not for funerals nowdays DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[John Lloyd]

Yeah, strange but a good place (IMO) to have as your birth-town. I always feel very "warm" when I go there... more often than not for funerals nowdays DT_Xtremez_26:

That's a home town feel, thank christ it's not Bacup. I feel stangely comfortable whenever I get the opportunity to drive through Coningsby village, now that is weird.