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What and where was your first job?

Chris Cruz: Northern Rock at Doxford, was fun times and great people with good crack and banter to work with.

Louise Collingwood:

Saturday job aged 16 at the Tesco in the Bridges on the tills, hated every minute of it.

Clare Graham: Rebel in Blandford Street. Great friends, great times.

Gary Doyle: Working for my Grandad, delivering coal to local shops in about 1989. Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland. Great days.

Joanne Robson:

First job was placing leaflets into the Sunderland Echo. Loved the camaraderie in the loading bay where we worked.

Maureen Dagg: CAmrex . Office junior. Two pounds one shilling and nine pence in my weekly pay packet. Lovely people to work with in the office and the factories and fun leg pulling too. Made a couple of life long friends too.

John Tate: Still got the same one, 41yrs as a gardener for the local

authority.

Vicki Louise: Behind the bar at the Hastings Hill. Still possibly the job I loved the most, or was that because I was 18 and single.

Ian Jobling: Paper boy down Hendon for Pete's paper shop. Then the fruit shop opposite Littlewoods side entrance on a Saturday, never had so much money.

Colleen Mary: Saturday girl at BHS from 1975-77 but worked all the school holidays full time.

Helen Blackburn:

Cooking hamburgers and making candy floss in a kiosk on the sea front during the school holidays. I worked my socks off for £2 a day!

Stephen Maxwell: Vaux Breweries in Castle Street street Sunderland. As a stable hand.

Joe Bellerby: Paper Round at what used to be the Newsagents on Cleveland Road.

Irene Bainbridge: Pyrex as office junior. Never laughed so much in my life the girls were great.