pant and decorater for me self then went to land rover for stock controller then became a transport clerk then a controler then run directive of transport then a driver
u see al the ■■■■ u get get down the rdc,s at land rover was mine and directive result 
Here’s my contribution:
1 yr A levels, Jacked it in… didn’t like it.
18 mths YTS Electrical / Mechanical Engineering, jacked it in… didn’t like it.
2 yrs Trainee production Mgr at a lighting factory, jacked it in… didn’t like it.
1 yr Recruitment Consultant ( Drivers ) for Agency, ( you know the sort… annoying Gimp who can’t actually do the job but thinks he’s ‘one of the gang’ cos he knows what a ‘Suzie’ is 
), jacked it in… didn’t like it.
3 yrs Placement officer for training company, not too bad… made redundant !
2 yrs self employed IMO car wash franchise… biggest mistake of my life… Jacked it in… didn’t like it.
3 yrs Wolverhampton Wholesale Market, worked my way up to the lofty heights of ’ Banana Salesman '… ( what ? 
) mixed with ocassional 7.5 tonne multi drop… loved it… sadly didn’t pay the bills so…
Went and took class C, got a job on General Haulage with a local haulier for…
6 weeks and yes… jacked it in… didn’t like it
Then got straight in at the Co-Op 4 years ago, 15 to 18 drops a day, loved it !Passed C+E 3 years ago, never looked back, finally found whatever it was I was looking for all those many jobs later… Like many of the above I’ll never go inside again ! 
I always wanted to be a …Lumberjack
Reef:
Oh and seeing as ROG is being a smart arse i passed all my tests 1st time too
8 lessons in car then passed 1st time,
LGV C started course on monday morning passed test friday afternoon,
LGV C + E started course monday morning passed test thursday morning.
i also got 35 out of 35 on my theory test too so go on pat me on the back im so clever i have to tell everyone else just how superior i am…Maybe i should put the above as my signature or something equally ■■■■…ffs
I can beat that (nearly)
10 lessons in car then passed 1st time
PSV Passed first time
LGV C. Tues, Wed lessons (8 hours) then passed on Thurs
Same for LGV C+E
Only bike and tanks to go!! 
Bragging over, here’s my history
Left School, 6 months YOP with the REME in Pennypot, Harrogate.
8 Years Driving Buses and Coaches (on and off)
12 years involved with a variety of jobs in the IT industry including a stint self employed
Finaly bit the bullet Jan 06 for a life on the road and earn more now that I ever did wielding a multimeter and a screwdriver.
Left school in 1986 with lots of ‘O’ Levels and two ‘A’ Levels. Didn’t really know what I wanted to do but good with computers so drifted into IT.
1992 Fed up with IT so took a fortnight off to get C+E, returned to office knowing I’d be out soon…but soon found out that nobody would give me a job without experience and I was too fussy to give up my office job and be a van driver to work my way up. Managed to get a few bits and pieces of work locally for a while but not enough to pay the rent so gave up and stayed where I was.
1996 kept the craving under control by getting into the vintage lorry scene
2006 A risk of redundancy at the time a neighbour was setting up an agency. He asked if i fancied doing the odd bit of weekend work and it seemed like a good idea so arranged a few hours refresher training with a local firm to drag me into the 21st century and have been doing it part time since. Application for voluntary redundancy was turned down but I reckon there’s more round the corner so will hang out for it for now with a view to driving full time when it comes!
left school 1985 & joined the army (Tank Driver Gunner)
1989 started as a IT trainee for a catalogue company on Mainframes
1997 started at another catalogue company IT analyst mainframes & networks
Passed my Class 2 june 2006 & class1 March 2007, Started agency work in between shifts in june 2006 & looking to goto driving fulltme in the future.
I have also worked as a motorcycle courier for Moves in Manchester(part time) in 1997(6 months) & done the doors in & around Manchester 1996 till 2001.
Left school and went to college for a levels but left after a few months.
Got a job at a plumbers merchants on the trade counter and after a year I got a job with another plumbers merchant, stayed there for 3 years and did deliveries in a transit on and off.
Then I got a job just driving a van for a third plumbers merchant and did that for a year.
Then I took my class 2 and I had a few spells on agency, a failed job doing pallet multidrop for 12 hours a day (I stayed a week).
Got a job driving with a timber merchant and did that for 18 months but they ■■■■■■ me right off…so now I drive for a builders merchant.
I left school aged 16 in 1960 worked as engineering apprentice in railway workshops at horwich till 1963 made redundant under beeching plan finished appreticeship with m/c based eng.co.Had to leave thro industrial probs.Went driving local for builders merchants, then moved on to work for william nuttalls swinton m/c.He put me thro my class 1 when they started and i passed and stayed there 3yrs doing long distance[mainly london] i then continued driving in uk and eu before ret. after 35yrs.
left school 1992 started work in market for 12 months left that to go into factory
for few years gained flt there.
then in 96 started at rover working in the warehouse for tnt
then transfered to exel logistics based at rover again
then onto taylors of martley were i paid for my class 2
then left rover in 2003 for agency work mainly fro back up in dudley
then started coop in 2004 till oct 2006
now at langdons
Left school at 15 and worked as a Riding School instructor for four years.
Then ventured into office work, typing and Switchboard for about a year (hated it)
Then worked in a Piggery before becoming a ful time mum for a short while.
Then Bar work and farm work part time while the kids were growing (with lots of other varied activities to make ends meet)
Then full time delivery on a small van around London.
Then worked in a Tyre and Exhause place fitting tyres and exhausts.
Then past my test and went into trucking briefly before stepping sideways into the training sector.
Sort of got hooked with the instructing side and been there ever since - 21 years now.
joined army at 16, got licences up to c and a few others i’ve never used since, left after 10 years.
various driving jobs on rigids, got c+e 6 years ago, few jobs doing uk and european.
currently working in iraq doing tanker and flatbed work and not paying the goverment 1 penny in tax
as near as i can remember
yts
hire shop
security guard
car valeter
s/e car valeter
van driver
car valeter
barman
van driver
mobile valeter
driver
parcel sorter
7.5 t driver
pallet basher
fitter
car delivery driver
class2 tipper driver
fitter
class 1 driver agency
class 1 general haulage
roro driver
and theyve all bin crap apart from the car dels and the roro
Left school 85 so I am 30 now 
As a boy we lived near to Pickfords removals and apparently from the age of 3 driving for Pickfords was the only job I ever wanted to do.
Plasterers Labourer
Apprentice Diesel Fitter - Hunter Vehicles
Apprentice Electrician - Qualified
Telecoms Engineer
HV electrician - Passed C and C+E and HiaB 1993
Telecoms again - Self employed
Back to HV civil engineering
Now run my own HV installation firm and machinery movers- also recycle electronics equipment . Run 2 units on own work and contract.
Been driving on and off from 93 and still love getting away for a week or so a month and the odd telco job (if I had to stay in the office everyday I would simply quit life is far too short )- Don’t tell the wife but the peace is great!! 
Andyroo:
Left school and went to college for a levels but left after a few months.Got a job at a plumbers merchants on the trade counter and after a year I got a job with another plumbers merchant, stayed there for 3 years and did deliveries in a transit on and off.
Then I got a job just driving a van for a third plumbers merchant and did that for a year.
Then I took my class 2 and I had a few spells on agency, a failed job doing pallet multidrop for 12 hours a day (I stayed a week).
Got a job driving with a timber merchant and did that for 18 months but they ■■■■■■ me right off…so now I drive for a builders merchant.
Looks like you’re working your way through the construction industry.
Left school at 16, with 6 ‘O’ levels. Joined the RAF but hated it (too young and wet behind the ears if truth be known), so left before even finishing basic training.
4 years as a “trainee accountant” then made redundant.
2 years in a purchasing office as an expeditor (“progress chaser”)
25 years as a copper
Been driving full time since last August
Still got 6 ‘O’ levels and not a lot else…
grumpybum:
Became an Estate Agent !
you could have been:
Samson the Sadducee Strangler, Silus the Syrian Assassin. one of, several seditious scribes from Caesarea.*
but admitting to being an estate agent …Noooooooooooooo
*Peirre raids the life of brian script vault
Apprenticship as a TV Engineer for 4 years.
Went to college and gained several city and guilds in electronic servicing and telecommunications, tv and vcr theory etc
Worked for mastercare (Currys/dixons) for 8 years as a field engineer, then was offered redundancy, so took it and did my hgv test.
Been driving for 4 years now, and it works for me and my family.
School - O levels then A level.
Royal Academy of Music (several van driving part-time jobs in hols etc.).
Car test - no lessons, passed first time.
Professional trombone player/teacher for 24 years
IAM Advanced driving test, passed first time.
IAM Qualified Observer test, passed first time.
Own business repairing computers/small run design & printing.
Trained for LGV “C” passed first time.
Agency driving for a year or so then
Trained for LGV “C&E” , passed 2nd time (not counting mix up on second test due to training company!)
Bit more agency then -
Been night trunking for a well known pallet company up and down to Birmingham for the last 2 1/2 years - best thing I ever did.
Left Military School at 16. 1991
Plumbing for a year at college
went to South Africa for 2 years to live with my Mum ,worked at a place called Hyperama selling Garden and Pool equipment near Durban
came back to UK (wish I had’nt )worked as a CNC machine setter programmer in a fridge factory in Bognor,I then went onto do the same job in a sheet metal factory in Storrington.
Land and Building surveying for 9 months mostly validating Environment Agency Benchmarks for flood relief in the countryside
1997 started as a Steel Erector/Welders mate
1999 became Steel Erector/Welder (in charge of 2 mates)
got fed up with lazy ■■■■■■■ youngsters who’d rather text and phone their girlfriends all day than work and got fed up with driving to and from London everyday. 
Dec 2003 passed Class2
March 2004 passed class 1
Finished Steelwork and started driving Sept 2004 for Hanbury Davies
left April 2005 due to missus deciding she wanted another sprog without consulting me
went back to steelwork for a few months,had a row with my ■■■■■■ boss so I handed in my notice got a job with Deben Transport and started August 2005
I dont work for them now though due to them losing a big contract
And there you have it
left school at 19 tried to stick my head down in uni but only lasted 4months… dropped outta that and stack at home for a year… did my class c when i was 20 then class c+E at 21 and got my self a job… 1 year on im looking at doing artics full time aas gettin annoyed w current boss… not long but im only a youngin