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Junior clerical worker shipyard 1956 Civil Servant (Admiralty) dockyard wages Left to bring up two children Party plan underwear (Hostique - like Pipadee) Part time make up sales (House of Romney I think it was called) Part time County WRVS office part time supervisor large comprehensive lunch times/ran disco 1976 clerical worker in garage entering VAT etc) Local government worked for Forest of Dean District council (wages, creditors, housing rents, cashier) Road works contractor, general office assistant Civil Servant MOD Squadron Clerical assistant, Civilian personnel, RAF personnel, Works Management, Training Liaison Officer (civilian and RAF) Retired 2000 Ann Glos

I grab it when I can and value the time. Gail x

Oh no not that old chestnut you are a bad lad to the corner now June ..

Hiyah Ann OMG you deserve a rest love Jun e..

June, my uncle used to be a wringer -out for a one armed window cleaner. Jeff

Junior Secretary with day releases for Secretarial and Business Studies... Secretaries to Solicitor/Travel Agent/Beauty Therapist School Cleaner and Waitressing part time whilst children were small... Wages and Accounts for husband's small company... Also working with horses....taking exams.....learning... Retired... Job I liked best was waitressing because I was able to have a good laugh with people and earn money whilst the kids were small....

Vinteresting we have an allotment my hubby loves it June ..

June Looks like I've fell in the trap So off to the corner wearing naughty cap.. A little story for you which is true, a well known comical character who lived in our village was once sent to an engineering firm by the local labour exchange with a view to getting a job. When he met the personnel manager he said, 'I dont' understand why the dole have sent me here because your ad says that you're looking for millers and turners and my name is Smith. Jef lol

Scholar, Soldier(WW2 conscript), Accountant & Auditor, Mental-health Counsellor, layabout - in that order. len

I forgot to mention that while bringing up our two i was also a short term foster parent and sometimes a daily minder for babies and teenagers mostly. Ann Glos

Agricultural Worker - Dairy and Arable, diversifying to beef, sheep and pigs then back to dairy. Children Aerobics Instructor Duty Manager - Leisure Centre Plant Breeding...back to Agriculture Tina x

i think I would have liked to have done nursing Joan......

my 1st job was training as a milliner,mostly on a sewing machine, i was there 18mths when another firm took over[hats were going out of fashion] this new boss called me into the office one day and gave me my cards and said i wasn't cut out for that kind of work! now,don't forget i'd been there 18mths and had no complaints from the other boss about my work! i was heart broken,i loved that job! i went home and cried my eyes out! 3 weeks after that i heard they had gone bankrupt! then i realised why they got rid of me,they would of had to pay me redundency!! i was only 17, if i'd known then what i know now 'as they say!' after that i had various jobs: printers-making booklets,draw tickets etc,etc various machinist jobs: toy factory,making mens trousers--putting the flies in!! making overalls years later i found another millinery place and went for a job there and some of the people who were in my first job were there! i was there 18mths when they decided they didn't want hats making anymore. i also worked in Butlins for a season as a chalet maid. in recent years i have worked in hospitals and a hospice as a domestic. there are more! packer--making boxs and the packing for fish fingers,ice scream etc,etc. i went from one job to another after my first job experience,knocked my confidence for a bit! but then there were jobs to be had,you could finish in one friday and start in another monday!!

Bank clerkf for 12 years with the 'Listening (???) Bank for 13years. Full time Mum for 8 years. Part time bank clerk for the same bank for 3 years. Publican for 8 year. Now Off Licence manager and licensee for last four years

Apart from about 2 years, my working life was as a Bookkeeper. I'm now retired. Reg

I have worked in the N.A.A.F.I shop Germany .a market stall Rhyl, pottery,Stoke-on-trent Woolworth cafe, Chester Woolworth Tunstall bus cafe Newcastle-under-lyme pottery then Mecca bingo then pottery then gala bingo diner and bar still there Valxxx

Part time shop assistant in local chemist, haberdashers etc.from the age of 14? whenever it was legal lol Clerical assistant/receptionist/telephonist at hauliers when first left school, moved on after 6 months as the drivers scared the life out this then timid little mouse! Clerical assistant,etc etc at local garage and car sales, secretary/deputy manager at Sweda cash registers, temping in various offices in between, also waitress in Wimpy bars in evenings, all in Norwich. Receptionist/telephonist at Food Research Institute, then left to do a summer season in Bracklesham Bay as a waitress, back to Norwich and temped at local engineering company L.S.E. in Work Study Dept. then moved on to Cambridge temping then audio typist in Garden centre, then Clerical officer at Cambridge Water co, back to Norwich, waitress in the Buttery Bar at Hotel Nelson (brand new Scandinavian styled hotel) then clerical officer/typist in Housing dept of S. Norfolk District council, left to have my daughter but she was born prematurely and died, secretary/receptionist at U.E.A. Secretary receptionist at Business transfer agents, which later closed Norwich branch, secretary to Private Investigator and did a bit of P.I. work too, part time bar maid in various Norwich pubs and nightclubs in evenings, then British Rail took me on in the Red Star office, moved on to Freight office on a promotion, also did jewellery partyplan then had my son, continued to do partyplan then did child minding, and one day a week in a friend's shop selling terracotta pots and plants, candles, relaxation tapes etc, then cleaning for elderly neighbours and managed three student houses belonging to a friend. Was a full time mum and also carer for my elderly parents, before they died. Now just doing one student house and clean at one home of two elderly sisters I have known since I was 11. Will be 60 in July but will probably carry on at old dears till they leave the sheltered housing flat- both over 80 now. Probably missed some jobs out, oh yes, Saturday morning boat cleaning for a while. I was lucky that it was during the time when if you were fed up with a job, you just went out and got another, gave a week's notice to the old boss and off you went. Liz

having read all yours, mines a bit boring. med school five years, yes i should have done six, but it's a long story. royal army medical corps fifteen years. now working in health service fourteen years, but moving to the midlands in june, so will be looking for part time job...any offers? bryan.... would love to work with animals.

Hi Bryan, I think it must be very exciting for you to have a new chapter starting in your life and I hope all goes well for you and Lynn. You have the chance to try something completely different now, how good is that? as well as having the company and love of a special person in your life. Will be 'watching this space' in the summer! Liz

Shop assistant in a chemist Nursing assistant Mother and wife Cleaner Substitute mum every Friday for all the kids with working mums who couldn't go to assembly for eight years Volunteer Hospice worker for 14 yrs Now palliative caring at home