When I left school, I used to work over Wales at a place called 'The Camnant centre, you can say it was a farm. The main purpose was looking the ponies, we did riding for the disabled.
We also had other animals, cats, dogs, hens, duck, sheep one goat. I was there until I was twenty -one. I enjoyed it. I lived in but we were out in the sticks. I was very young and I wanted do other things.
I want to be a writer when I was twenty - three, I,ve written a lot of stuff but with not much support until I wrote the employment play for Mencap.Sara Jane Gorman 18 Jul 2008
My first full time job was in a cafe in New York. I tool some time out after I finished college and before I went to university. I learnt to make excellent coffee!Jane 26 Jun 2008
My first job was delivering the local free paper in Liverpool when I was about 12. A huge pile of about 300 would be delivered and I'd spend 2-3 evenings delivering them - all for about a fiver! It kept me out of mischief but the wages were rubbish!!Tony 19 Jun 2008
Apart from delivering free newspapers, my first proper job was in a toy shop. Sounds like it could be fun, but it was run by mean old people who made me clean the toilets and wouldn't let me talk to the other Saturday girl!Nina 18 Jun 2008
Selling suitcases to a very orange publicGavin 17 Jun 2008
Mine was in Fatty Arbuckles... very greasy but my first experience of earning my own money!Kim 17 Jun 2008
Clerical officer in a jobcentre....Darren 17 Jun 2008
The local corner shop with the owner who was about a 110 years old. Great for free cola bottles.Jane 17 Jun 2008
My first job was building PCs for a computer reseller in Cornwall. I was only about 13 but it was a fun firm and taught me some interesting things. I was paid a pittance but I got to have all the latest gear which was handy for computer games and all that. That was nearly twenty years ago. God I feel old!Olly 17 Jun 2008
My dad had a mushroom farm and all the stories about what they are grown in are true. As my sister and I got to do all the rubbish jobs on the farm to get our pocket money then you can imagine we had some pretty grim Saturday mornings!Alison 17 Jun 2008
I worked at London Zoo face painting for Snazaroo. It was really good fun and very useful these days for school fetes and kid's parties!Deborah 17 Jun 2008
I was a bee keeper at an apiary. Sounds fun, but that's where I learnt that I'm allergic to bee stings. Adrian 17 Jun 2008
...not my first, but definately my worst was sawing bricks in half with an angle grinder in a brick factory. it was so loud that everyone talked in hand signals, the saw was water cooled so i had to wear a full length waterproof suit, it was in the middle of the Australian desert and i'd loose about 8lbs every day, every 5th brick or so would spin out of my hands and id nearlt loose a finger. That said the lunches were nice....Graham 17 Jun 2008
I lived in a small village so there weren't many places to work but I managed to build a baby-sitting empire, which ended up paying me really well!Nicola 17 Jun 2008
I used to have to peel the skin off fish at the local monger!!! Horrid stuff. I only lasted two days, the smell lasted longer!!Rebecca 16 Jun 2008
Me and my friend set up a saturday car-cleaning business when we were kids. It probably earned me more in a day then I earn now!Tom 16 Jun 2008
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We also had other animals, cats, dogs, hens, duck, sheep one goat. I was there until I was twenty -one. I enjoyed it. I lived in but we were out in the sticks. I was very young and I wanted do other things.
I want to be a writer when I was twenty - three, I,ve written a lot of stuff but with not much support until I wrote the employment play for Mencap.Sara Jane Gorman 18 Jul 2008