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I started at grammar school.

:-D :-D


50 years ago last May ..................... I graduated from university



and then had to try to find a job


I was out of work for 6 months :-(


the kind of job I wanted to do (genetics counselling) was so new that there were no jobs that did not require a medical degree as well as one in genetics


I had to change my mind about what I did and did not want to do .......................



and started work as a school teacher 50 years ago next January :-)



I never wanted to teach ................. but I've since been told that I was good at it

................. getting an message through Friends Reunited from an ex-student about 10 years ago saying that I was the best teacher she'd ever had was a real uplifting moment for me :-)

67 years ago I started grammar school and hated it from day one right through to the end

47 years ago, I too started Grammar School :-D

18 years ago (plus a month) I started University :-D

Neither led to a marvellous career though :-|

50 yrs ago l'd left school for one yr....yipppppeeeeee

first job was in a factory, l had to catch 12 paper bags that shot out of a machine, they came out so quick l could'nt catch one....lol

jude

55 years ago had been in national service since april........
53 years ago had been demobbed since march.....
50 years ago I was working at a Mcdougalls flour mill,
had a daughter 2 yrs 8 months and a son 10 months........

I didn't like grammar school for the first 2½ years, and kept begging my father to buy me out and let me leave at the age of 15

It cost £10 to leave that one year early, and he wouldn't agree ............ we couldn't afford it


................... then I realized that I had found subjects I liked, and teachers I liked



and then had to beg my parents to let me stay on at school to do A levels, and then go onto to university ......................

My parents were not wealthy, but I got a local authority grant that paid the whole cost of my university education, living expenses, books, and even a supplemental small grant to cover the field trips I had to do each year.


I didn't have much money to spare, but neither were my friends, so "entertainment" was usually self-made.


I got jobs in vacation time ........

......... delivering the post for about 2 weeks upto and including Christmas Eve
every year for 4 years

and summer jobs from June to September .................... I worked in 3 hotels, quite the experience that was!



I worked Saturday jobs from the age of 11, with some week days at the same place in the summer from 12-14, but began regular summer jobs when I was 15.


I worked in a factory that made Pakamacs my last but 1 year before I left grammar school ....... that was an eye-opener :-)

50 years ago I lost my virginity :-D

Oh, I love to read about the --olden days...... ;-) :-D :-D :- :-D.

did you ever find it again Wend :-D lost mine 55 years ago when I got married :-D

Oh!

I hope it was not lost, but given away, freely,willingly

the most intimate of gifts.......to be shared....

eagerly more tha willingly ;-)

I seem to recall one of the "loose women" saying that as soon as she was sixteen,
she got that out of the way, pronto......

I never thought of Bob being a Barbara Cartland reader before.

:-D :-D me neither

I'm not..........LOL

just the way I see it....