• Question: what was your first job?

    Asked by Foxythepirate1987 to Usman, Daniel, Freya, James, Miranda on 14 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Miranda Jackson

      Miranda Jackson answered on 14 Jun 2015:

      My first job was as a research assistant in the university where I took my first degree. I worked on modelling interactions in particle physics and comparing the results to those in a particle accelerator, to see how the particles interacted with each other.

      I did try to get jobs at restaurants and clothing shops before that, while I was still in school, but they didn’t hire me because I lacked experience.

    • Photo: James Gilbert

      James Gilbert answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I was a hotel porter. I come from a seaside town with lots of hotels that are mainly filled up with older holidaymakers in summer. I had a job at one of the smaller hotels carrying guests’ suitcases to their rooms after they arrived on the coach. It was insane (had to move about 50 suitcases in less than an hour, up four flights of stairs), but I used to get a tonne of tips. Think I must have been 14 or 15 at the time.

    • Photo: Daniel Hewson

      Daniel Hewson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      My first job was as a paper boy for a local newsagent at the age of 13. I would have to get up early Mon-Sat to deliver newspapers!

    • Photo: Freya Wilson

      Freya Wilson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      My first regular job was as a waitress at a nearby country pub, I was 17. I hated it! I needed the job to get driving lessons though so I stuck it out until I could drive.

      Before that I used to babysit for my parents’ friends’ kids sometimes, and work odd days at a local stables cleaning out horse poo if I reeeeeally wanted some extra pocket money for something!

    • Photo: Usman Bashir

      Usman Bashir answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      It was a gruelling 12 month job as a junior doctor in a large hospital. The highlight was ‘special sunday’, once a month. When i first heard that a special sunday was coming up, I thought they would give me a long weekend off. But it turns out it was a continuous emergency duty on Saturday & Sunday, on my feet trying to take care of very ill people in the A&E!! No monday off either.

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