my first job;
it was an apprentice mechanic at the local brewery's garage.large fleet of wagons,company cars(mainly cavalier sri's!) and fork trucks.i was there from 1986 until 1990 as an apprentice then got kept on.great job,very good pay and benefits,free beer tokens every 3 months to spend in the shop.good blokes there where i learned a lot.

the company got bought out in 1993 and they were streamlining every part of the brewery,redundancies etc.they were offering good money (at the time i would have got about 15k).but typically of me i stupidly got involved in a fight in town one night and made a mess of a group of lads who were looking for trouble.this ended up in me getting jailed for violent disorder and losing any chance of redundancy-what an idiot i was............lost job and got paid off with £500.

good times while i was there though..........its a tesco supermarket now!