What job were you in when you were half your current age?

[Crick22]

I was six form college

[Glassman]

Was employed as a windscreen tech dreaming about starting my own business which I did two years later in 2005.

[InitialDave]

Engineer, just as I am now, though not quite at the point in time I was at my current company.

[LastPoster]

Still being an Air Conditioning Engineer although feeling it was time for a move to Supervisory then Management. First step came 18 months later, then another 12 months to management

[Rebew]

I was 16 years old working in a local fish and chip shop. Still see the owner regularly and he has a lovely collection of interesting cars including an NSX!

[fat80b]

In my second job out of Uni as a engineer for a tech consultancy doing hardware / software / project management for loads of cool gadgets.

I felt drastically underpaid at the time -- although in hindsight, maybe it wasn't so bad considering that today's grads get paid almost the same amount as I did back then

..... and the pension pot from 3 years at that job is currently at 60K or ~2x the annual salary I was on when I left .........

[markymarkthree]

Postman.

[Hoofy]

Web dev and project management.

[Quattr04.]

16

Just started my first job at B&Q on the checkouts. Dropped out of college to work there full time till I got my apprenticeship at 18

Still the best job ever, crap pay but I loved it

[towser44]

Regulatory Compliance Assistant in a Building Society

[brake fader]

Taxi driver in Manchester

[kiethton]

Saturday shift selling golf balls at the driving range, mon-fri in lower 6th

[abzmike]

Working as a systems engineer for the Press Association news agency in Fleet Street. One of my favourite jobs, great team, interesting work, happy days.

[ATG]

Bond market analyst at my first bank, I think. Business unit would have been getting ready to go properly tits up, after which we'd resurrect most of the team at another bank. That also went tits up a couple of years later.

[Kawasicki]

Tyre development engineer

[Metric Max]

Pest control surveyor for Rentokil

[BlackStang5point0]

I was undertaking the mechanical design of heat exchangers and process equipment for an equipment manufacturer. When the design office was quiet I'd don my overalls and head into the works to help on the assembly and testing lines. I left for career progression but god I miss those days - life was just so much simpler back then.

[fooman]

That would have been 1998 if you want to reverse engineer my age, just come back from a year long honeymoon backpacking round the world, to get a software development job putting real time monitoring into trucks which was brand new technology back then.

[Dave Hedgehog]

earning a st load more than I am now lol, still in IT but at the time one of a couple of people that could hook up CTOS to an AS/400 with 20 pair cable

i used to get £750 a day just for being on call out over the weekend, and £500 for each callout (all over England) for the first hour, I had a brand new 20v ur quattro in chocolate brown with a tan interior in my early 20s

[Countdown]

Auditor

Never had so many offers of sex in any other job.