First Job

[Edu-IT]

I think they employ 15yo's if you can obtain permission paperwork from school and home (a green slip?) But you can only work 8 hours a week i think

I don't think that is true. I worked more than 8 hours when I was 15.

[torledo]

hmm, I worked at a stables for a couple of years, then KP'd in a restaurant.

 

The thing I'd say is not to go for something above your age range.

 

most employers would think of someone so young as possibly unreliable and inexperienced.

 

Once you've had a job you've instantly got someone to provide a reference, so subsequent job hunting shouldn't be so tough.

 

look locally and ask around, don't just rely on the local rags

 

Is that stables as in Lady Chatterley, and shovelling hay for old nags....or is that a typo and you mean staples - well known retailer of office type things.

[elsiegee40]

I don't think that is true. I worked more than 8 hours when I was 15.

 

 

It is true ... see link in my earlier post:

 

Permitted working times

 

No child shall be employed during school hours

No child under the age of 13, shall be employed in any occupation (except public performances - please see link on the left for Performance Licences for Children for further information)

Children must have at least 2 weeks in a year, during School closures, during which they shall not work

Maximum of 2 hours on a Sunday

No child may commence work before 7:00 am

No child may work after 7:00 pm

 

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Permitted Working Times - Schooldays

 

Maximum of 2 hours on a school day

Maximum of 12 hours in any school week

Maximum of 1 hours work prior to starting school

 

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Permitted Working Times - Weekends and Holidays

 

Child aged 13 - 14, maximum of 5 hours per day (excluding schooldays and Sundays) with a maximum of 25 hours in a non school week (any period of 7 consecutive days)

Child aged 15 - 16, maximum of 8 hours per day (excluding schooldays and Sundays) with a maximum of 35 hours in a non school week (any period of 7 consecutive days)

All children, if working for a continuous period of 4 hours, must have a break of at least one hour

 

There's more detail on that link

[PEO]

Milkman

shop assistant

cnc operator for aerospace company

electornics engineer

now this job until i get bored which i wont because i have way to much fun

[torledo]

No child under the age of 13, shall be employed in any occupation (except public performances - please see link on the left for)

 

Looks like the two Simons (Cowell and Fuller) can rest easy.

[Edu-IT]

It is true ... see link in my earlier post:

 

 

 

There's more detail on that link

Not 8 hours a week maximum though which is what comedydave said.

[elsiegee40]

Not 8 hours a week maximum though which is what comedydave said.

 

 

I stand corrrected... I'll go and clean my specs!

[laserblazer]

I had a Saturday job delivering meat on one of the big old bikes with the basket on the front. There were supposed to be two lads working there but I never saw the other one so I had to do two rounds. At the start of each round the basket was so heavy that I had to keep my weight on the saddle or it would tip forward. It was very hilly and no gears. I reckon I used to cycle 15 miles in total. For this I got £1 + tips and most weeks a nice joint of meat for Sundays. The shop assistant was into horse racing and he would take my tips and invariably quadruple them. Then I joined the RAF and got the award for fittest new recruit.

[markcuk]

didnt work at all till i was 18 (no not even a paper round) walked straight into an IT job and walked out a week later :-)

 

should enjoy your life at 15 and not be thinking of work!

[Grommit]

I am going to look for a job so I can save an buy my own laptop. I am 15 and so far have got rejected for places I went to and I was wondering what was your first job and how old was you?

 

15....! Mate you should be looking for a weekend job at ASDA

[localzuk]

didnt work at all till i was 18 (no not even a paper round) walked straight into an IT job and walked out a week later :-)

 

should enjoy your life at 15 and not be thinking of work!

 

Woo, bad advice An example of taking on some responsibility is a good thing to have. It also helps with getting some money of your own.

[dhicks]

I am going to look for a job so I can save an buy my own laptop.

 

Worked at the air-freshener factory next door between GCSEs and A-levels, then the next year got upgraded to the chicken factory down the road. Also did potato-picking and wheat-harvesting. I believe you're allowed to drive a tractor starting at something like 14 - this probably isn't going to be much use unless you live in the countryside...

 

I was actually thinking of trying to convince our bursar to hire someone exactly like you over the summer - haul boxes, poke wires in holes, etc, get a laptop at the end of it.

 

--

David Hicks

[markcuk]

always liked this one

 

Choose Life.

Choose a job.

Choose a career.

Choose a family.

Choose a fucking big television,choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance.

Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments.

Choose a starter home.

Choose your friends.

Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.

Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.

Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.

Choose your future.

Choose life.

Edited March 25, 2008 by markcuk

[Edu-IT]

15....! Mate you should be looking for a weekend job at ASDA

They won't employ you at Asda until you're 18, as far as I am aware.

[muppet]

My first job was working in a local bakers cleaning the wooden bread trays on a Saturday morning.

I started at 5:30 in the morning and had a bass broom head with the bristles cut down to scrub the trays in an old tin bath.......I was only allowed to use 2 kettles worth of hot water in the tub (the rest was straight from the cold tap) as the owner was a tight ar*e and didn't want me wasting his electric. I was outside at all times, even in rain / sleet / hail / snow, and didn't finish until 12:30, if I'd cleaned all the trays, if not then I had to stay on, unpaid!!! I was only allowed 1 break during which time I had to make the brews for all the bakers, but was never allowed to have a freebie cake or bread roll.

All of this and I was only 11!!!!

Saying that, I was paid £2.00 an hour, and I was introduced to a lot of new words that my mother didn't approve of!

 

By the way this was 26+ years ago, and it didn't do me any harm....infact when I joined the military at 16 I was already well ahead of my peers when it came to swearing and hard work.

Edited March 25, 2008 by muppet

[Edu-IT]

and I was introduced to a lot of new words that my mother didn't approve of!

My first job taught me a lot of things too, some things I wish I'd never been told about.

[localzuk]

My first job was working in a local bakers cleaning the wooden bread trays on a Saturday morning.

I started at 5:30 in the morning and had a bass broom head with the bristles cut down to scrub the trays in an old tin bath.......I was only allowed to use 2 kettles worth of hot water in the tub (the rest was straight from the cold tap) as the owner was a tight ar*e and didn't want me wasting his electric. I was outside at all times, even in rain / sleet / hail / snow, and didn't finish until 12:30, if I'd cleaned all the trays, if not then I had to stay on, unpaid!!! I was only allowed 1 break during which time I had to make the brews for all the bakers, but was never allowed to have a freebie cake or bread roll.

All of this and I was only 11!!!!

Saying that, I was paid £2.00 an hour, and I was introduced to a lot of new words that my mother didn't approve of!

 

By the way this was 26+ years ago, and it didn't do me any harm....infact when I joined the military at 16 I was already well ahead of my peers when it came to swearing and hard work.

 

I would argue the opposite - the fact that you joined the military at 16 indicates something strange (not that I have anything against the military though, just some of the actions they have been forced into lately but that's not their fault). We, generally speaking, are not emotionally mature enough to do many things by 16. For example, we can't buy or partake in the creation of pornography, get married without parental consent, vote, buy alcohol etc... How can we be stable enough to be in the military at that early age? It forces the person to mature at a faster rate than any other career would, and this would be seen in aspects of your later life.

Edited March 26, 2008 by localzuk

[My220x]

Hey could some people send me their CV so I can get an idea on what to put in mine.

[Joanne]

you'd be better off asking a careers advisor at school for cv tips... people who have been in work have a completely different cv.

 

You just need a piece of paper with your name and contact details... then list your strengths.

[My220x]

you'd be better off asking a careers advisor at school for cv tips... people who have been in work have a completely different cv.

 

You just need a piece of paper with your name and contact details... then list your strengths.

 

 

 

Oh, ok.

[Dos_Box]

I joined that army at 16 as a driver, spent a year in training and got the education I didn't get from school (if they had their way I would have ended up in an unskilled manual job to this day). I had all my HGV3 and motorcycle license by 17 and by the age of 20 my HGV1. Spent 13 years in, traveled the world and didn't regret a day of it.

Up yours NUT!

 

P.S. I never saw the NUT protesting for the removal of soviet nuclear weaponry in eastern Europe during the cold war. Funny that.

[Dos_Box]

Oops. Sorry. Politics. I'm still a bit ill.

[Guest Guest]

you'd be better off asking a careers advisor at school for cv tips... people who have been in work have a completely different cv.

 

You just need a piece of paper with your name and contact details... then list your strengths.

 

 

I went to one of those CV making sessions. Needless to say i wasnt best pleased when i came out with a CV you would expect a 5yr old to make! Ended up just tearing it up and using my one i had originally made

[Joanne]

yeah but you can probably get some good ideas from most of the advisors out there

[Guest Guest]

yeah but you can probably get some good ideas from most of the advisors out there

 

Oh i dont doubt it, shame the ones ive seen were complete morons who wasted a full day of my life while i could have been out actually getting a job.

 

 

 

To answer the lads question, the only jobs i can think of which take on under 16s are;

Paperboy

Kitchen Cleaner

Glass collector in a night club.

 

AFAIK legally there are very few jobs out there for under 16s due to working hours, insurance, manual handling etc