My first job was a Saturday job in BHS. But I don’t remember anything from that as we didn’t have music.
But as a student I worked in the Union bar. Sympathy for the Devil was picked on the juke box at least once every night. I’d never heard it before then even though it wasn’t new. (Early 90s)
For some reason ‘Kiss from a rose’ by Seal reminds me of working hospital jobs and especially being in theatre.
My first job was in an independent pharmacy when I was 16 and I was sacked after the first day because I'd been recruited in error. It turned out that the business owner had wanted someone from the Youth Opportunities Programme, not a schoolgirl whose wages he'd have to pay from his own pocket.
My ear was glued to Radio Clyde most of the time back then and there were some songs with staying power in the charts but I don't associate any of them with that brief foray into working in retail. I confess to having known all the words to this.
First job was at Tokyo Joes in Preston in the very late 90s - at the time it's chavviest nightclub over three levels. I was a glass collector, so had time get up close and personal with all the drunken hordes, which was mostly awful except one foam party night where it was wall to wall topless guys (sure there were women there too, but *shrug*)...
My first night on the job, at the end of the night I had to take the full bottle bins from the mid-level bar down to the lower level. I had a choice of two sets of stairs, one short, straight set at the opposite end of the dance floor, or a slightly longer, curved set much closer. I chose... poorly. Inching the bin down a step at a time, I lost control after three steps and stood frozen as the sound of flowing, breaking glass shattered the silence for what felt like an eternity.
Apparently there was a sweepstake about whether I'd show up the next day. I didn't realise never returning was an option...
Song that goes with this job is Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 400, which played multiple times every night and thanks, I still hate it.
Excellent first job memories everyone. The other song that was "multimedia" on the Win95 CD that I supported was Buddy Holly by Weezer, with a fun video (early MPEG - was so bitty it was almost unwatchable, but the music played!) G
behind the bar at the local golf club (1982, I wasn't actually old enough to work the bar but I used to caddy for one of mum's friends and they offered me the job without checking my age) Juke box was a bit behind and all I remember hearing was
https://youtu.be/NAj8suae3WY?si=T7GcD3OHJiW9Mo5s
and Rod Stewart, a lot of Rod Stewart
when dad realised what I was doing I had to quit and had a Saturday job in Millets for a while, there must have been music on, but I don't remember that (I got the sack from Millets for explaining to a customer that the reason the Levis labels were cut was because they were seconds)
Hi What was your first job (school, uni, Saturday job, part time, full time, eeal career - you choose!) and the song that goes with it?
(This is from a a theme last night on a great radio show we have up here in Scotland bbc.co.uk )
Some of us worked in call centres, and there was no music playing (obviously!) I worked in IT support, and when Windows 95 came out, it was the first one that had "multimedia" on it, including a music video. It was "Good Times"...
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