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24-08-2009, 07:07 PM
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How old were you.....

............ when you left school?

What was your first proper job?
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24-08-2009, 07:10 PM
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Re: How old were you.....

In was 16, and was a shorthand typist in a Solicitors office.........
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24-08-2009, 07:17 PM
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I left school when just 15. I wanted to teach domestic science as it was once called but because I was a good cook and housekeeper (I was cooking the evening meal for the family when I was 9 and cleaning the entire house with my sister ) my step mother said I would have to leave school and look after the house and she would pay me a shilling a week (she worked and was a 'fashion buyer').

So I found myself a 'live in' job in a famous kennel of show dogs, packed my little case and left home. I was not going to be Cinderella thank you.

No regrets, I have had a very varied and interesting life ..
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24-08-2009, 07:55 PM
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I left School at 15 and went to work in a chicken factory as the money was fantastic I did want to be a hairdresser but Mom couldn't afford the aprentiship money....No regrets too had a wild a vivid and lucky life and loved every minute of it...
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24-08-2009, 08:25 PM
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I dropped out half way through A-levels! Well, it was the 60`s. I sometimes wonder what life would have been like if I hadn`t joined the hippy trail...
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24-08-2009, 08:38 PM
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15, and I couldn't wait to get out.

My first job was apprentice hairdresser for the princely sum of £2.18 shillings and a penny a week
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24-08-2009, 08:42 PM
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I left school at 15 on a Thursday and started as an apprentice painter and decorator on the Monday.
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24-08-2009, 09:42 PM
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I left school at 16 and started in an Accounts Office in a Printing & Packaging company...
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24-08-2009, 10:03 PM
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Left school at 16 and started work 2 weeks after I left. My first job was at a Weaving Factory in the office-used to do wages,typing and clerical work. I hated that job especially on a Friday when I had to take the wages round and had to go up and down the aisles in between the weaving looms to people. The noise was incredible - but I did learn how to lip read I was paid £2.5 shillings a week which I gave to my mum and she used to give me 5 shillings back for spending money
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24-08-2009, 10:29 PM
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Twenty two when I graduated from college. My first job was as a switchboard operator, moved from there to the mail room and then into the accounts receivable department where I stayed for 39 years until the business was sold and moved to Baltimore.
 
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