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[wellinghall]

I've just come across my first payslip. It was for one week's shepherding work, week ending 26 April 1981. £33.50. I was (just) fifteen at the time.

I had done work for my father (although on a semi-formal basis) before that; but that was all cash in hand.

In the summer of 1981, I started work as a warden at the local stately house. £1.25 an hour. Sundays were double time, and bank holidays £2.50 bonus (I think; or the other way around). My first work there was over one of the May bank holiday weekends, which netted a tidy little sum. I continued working there in the holidays until 1987.

What was your first job?

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

First job of any description was the summer job I had between my upper sixth and starting university. The Council had this bright idea of employing young people to give schools a thorough spring clean (summer clean?) over the holidays. It was all a bit... disastrous. Still, it got me some money.

First full time job was working in the library of the Oxford Union for a year. I remember getting my first pay slip, and spending almost half of it on a meal at La Dolce Vita in Summertown.