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What was your very first job? 
Submitted by Laurel.

Well I was going to say Benjamins Coffee Shop at Jarrolds. MMMMMM...those TEACAKES! And those scones.... But then I remembered those 6 or 8 weeks I spent at Don Millers Bakery before Health and Safety closed it down. I remember I was often on sample trays, standing therein the freezing cold with a tray of pieces of iced bun in one hand, and a packet of iced buns in the other, dutifully informing people of the special offer that day. Then another girl came and I was "promoted" to be trained on the till! There seemed to me to far too many names of bread, including one called a Bloomer. I worked there saturdays and a couple of evenings I seem to remember. My outstanding memory is of tottering home on the bike after a shift with a plastic bag stuffed full of donuts, iced buns, cookies, danish pastries and whatever they were throwing out that day (which was often a lot). I think I was on 1.76 an hour plus all the cakes I could eat which for a 14 year old with nothing else to do of an evening anyway was not bad to my mind back then.