First job - light hearted reminder of the past.

[Squid]

Not sure if this is in the right section or has been covered before but you first job on your journey to becoming a Sparks.

Mine was when I was indentured with EIL turning up at Whitelys Department store in Queensway to start my apprenticeship I was on a laughable .89p per hour and working with an approved electrician called Ron who would always on the Wednesday blag a £1 me as he liked to bet on the dogs at the bookies.

As it was a department store it played rubbish music done by Telstar and we'd cut the cables as it was soul destroying.

The not so fun part was being tied up in the basement with my nuts covered in swarfega.

Your story?

 

[Squid]

after finishing the apprenticeship, they put me in the contracts office. trying to match the performance of gennys to lister diesels with unachievable efficiencies specced by lister, sat on my arse all day, 20 smokes per day,calculating, filling out graphs, 4 pints in the local at dinner time.not my scene. went elsewhere as fast as my feet could run.

You found a better pub?

;o)))))

 

[telectrix]

yep. better pub, better job. all life was rosy till i made the dreaded mistake.... got married.

 

[Squid]

yep. better pub, better job. all life was rosy till i made the dreaded mistake.... got married.

We've all been there ;o((((((

 

[Rpa07]

But did you come out singing Mammy ?

Still have comm cleaning sticks in my service kit.

The old martindale bedding stone - used it for commutators on power tools I fixed in my 3rd job!

 

[Specialist]

Comm sticks seem to be hard to find now, everything's so cheap & throwaway especially on the smaller stuff that people replace rather than repair.

Been down the appliance repair & power tool repair routes but they seem to have fallen victim to the throwaway culture.