I’ve always been very aware that there are lots of people that are quite a lot younger than me on the forum (and quite a few that are older too).
I started work at 16 years old in an HGV garage in Exeter as an apprentice in 1989 just after I’d done (badly) my exams.
Looking back on it after thirty years of work it’s interesting to see how things have changed in the past three decades...
For example I remember the self employed technician that used to turn up and fix various electrical problems on trucks who had a very early mobile phone in a kind of suitcase thingy that he carried around...
Also though I remember various practical jokes that were played on the apprentices (resulting in one instance of a young lad being hospitalised after having his foot run over) that just seem astonishing looking back at it all.
It’d be great to hear any stories - especially from people that started work in the 70s/60s, or even the 50s actually...
What sort of stuff or characters did you come across? Be it office work/trade-work/railway work etc? Anything really.
I started work at 16 years old in an HGV garage in Exeter as an apprentice in 1989 just after I’d done (badly) my exams.
Looking back on it after thirty years of work it’s interesting to see how things have changed in the past three decades...
For example I remember the self employed technician that used to turn up and fix various electrical problems on trucks who had a very early mobile phone in a kind of suitcase thingy that he carried around...
Also though I remember various practical jokes that were played on the apprentices (resulting in one instance of a young lad being hospitalised after having his foot run over) that just seem astonishing looking back at it all.
It’d be great to hear any stories - especially from people that started work in the 70s/60s, or even the 50s actually...
What sort of stuff or characters did you come across? Be it office work/trade-work/railway work etc? Anything really.