I'm 19 and have never had a job.
I'm also starting a degree in Oxford next month and they don't let you get a job during term time so I probably won't have a job for the next 4 years....
I think I was working on the check out at my parents' shop at that age. The boredom of that job was what led me to go to university and do a degree course.
I'm 19 and have never had a job.
I'm also starting a degree in Oxford next month and they don't let you get a job during term time so I probably won't have a job for the next 4 years....
I'm 19 and have never had a job.
I'm also starting a degree in Oxford next month and they don't let you get a job during term time so I probably won't have a job for the next 4 years....
That's not a rule, it's advice. In fact, about 1 in 5 Oxford students have part-time jobs throughout the year.
At 20 I was an undergraduate doing a degree with two part time jobs - working in a bookies (Ladbrokes) on a Saturday day time and working in a pub on a Friday and Saturday night. And during the summer break when I was 20 I worked in a record shop during the week for a few weeks.
Total wages (this was 1984): Ladbrokes - £10 plus £1 for my lunch for the Saturday (11am to 5.30pm), £7.50 for two nights in the pub (7pm to 10.30pm) and £50 per week in the record shop in the summer ( 5 days each week, from 9.30am to 5.30pm .) Not exactly the best wages in the world but it was better than nothing... and during the summer it was much more than I would have got on the dole, which was just £25 per week back then.
That's not a rule, it's advice. In fact, about 1 in 5 Oxford students have part-time jobs throughout the year.
Well I've been told many times that it's a rule (by students there), so I assumed it was, but when I think about it, I've never actually looked at the official rules so you may be right.
Regardless I really can't see myself getting a job during term time.
Working in a factory that had poor working conditions. It was hard, boring graft for low pay. We got the minimum wage of £3.60 an hour when that was introduced and £3.87 if on nights which was a significant pay rise from the £2.20/hour they were giving me when I started a few months earlier.
Health and Safety must have forgotton about the place, as it was ramshackle as anything with broken this, that and the other. It was freezing in there in the winter and boiling in the summer.
It was the type of place where new starters would regularly quit after half an hour and as a result they'd employ anyone. Loads of illegal immigrants went through there, and we had a couple of raids. There were some dodgy sorts with checkered pasts and people with problems relating to addiction and mental health. There was one guy with alcoholism problems who was living there for a while. We also had an armed robbery on payday once.
It was shit, but I did get a sense of achievement from working there, proud that I could stick with it when lots couldn't. Met some interesting people and saw some interesting sights too.
I was at drama school so was living mainly off my student loan. But in the holidays I was a painter/decorator and a tea room assistant at a garden centre.
I'm 19 and have never had a job.
I'm also starting a degree in Oxford next month and they don't let you get a job during term time so I probably won't have a job for the next 4 years....
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I'm also starting a degree in Oxford next month and they don't let you get a job during term time so I probably won't have a job for the next 4 years....
Well done
That's not a rule, it's advice. In fact, about 1 in 5 Oxford students have part-time jobs throughout the year.
Total wages (this was 1984): Ladbrokes - £10 plus £1 for my lunch for the Saturday (11am to 5.30pm), £7.50 for two nights in the pub (7pm to 10.30pm) and £50 per week in the record shop in the summer ( 5 days each week, from 9.30am to 5.30pm
Thanks.
Well I've been told many times that it's a rule (by students there), so I assumed it was, but when I think about it, I've never actually looked at the official rules so you may be right.
Regardless I really can't see myself getting a job during term time.
Health and Safety must have forgotton about the place, as it was ramshackle as anything with broken this, that and the other. It was freezing in there in the winter and boiling in the summer.
It was the type of place where new starters would regularly quit after half an hour and as a result they'd employ anyone. Loads of illegal immigrants went through there, and we had a couple of raids. There were some dodgy sorts with checkered pasts and people with problems relating to addiction and mental health. There was one guy with alcoholism problems who was living there for a while. We also had an armed robbery on payday once.
It was shit, but I did get a sense of achievement from working there, proud that I could stick with it when lots couldn't. Met some interesting people and saw some interesting sights too.
At 20 I was an Assistant Personnel Officer.
Good choice. What college you planning on?