A young woman admitted that boys mock her ‘greasy’ job – but she doesn’t care.

Franky Taylor, 18, based in Romford, is loved by over 140,000 people TikTok but that hasn’t always been so easy to translate in real life.

The glam teen went viral a couple of years back when she started vlogging her often ‘un-aesthetic’ day-to-day life, which many were able to resonate with.

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At the age of 16 and no GCSEs to her name, Franky – known as Franky_Taylor on TikTok – got a job at a local business and filmed her journey going from underling to shop boss.

Despite her determination, aspiration and hard graft, she found that her choice of job was seen ‘beneath’ others.

Speaking in an exclusive chat, she told us: “You wouldn’t know what I do by looking at me. So when I tell people I work in a fish and chip shop they believe me when they look at my TikTok – but you wouldn’t know I work in a fish and chip shop.”

“People do look down on me for working in a fish and chip shop. When I say I have no GCSEs and work in a fish and chip shop that’s what gets people – they really do look down.”

“I’ll get it on my TikTok comments saying ‘oh your work in a fish and chip shop’. Even a lot of the time when you say to boys ‘oh I work in a fish and chip shop’ and they say ‘we’re builders and work harder’.

“But people don’t realise and what happens in the job. People don’t realise that I start at 9am and they question why I start at 9am when it doesn’t open until 12pm – it really does take three hours to prepare.”

“I get it. It’s a greasy environment with greasy food, you smell after you finish, you stink the like shop – you do – and it’s not nice after.

“But every job has pros and cons – I love my job.”

Franky started working at the local takeaway when she was just 16. She struggled with schooling due to relentless bullying she had to endure. Despite moving schools several times, the bullying would follow and Franky’s mental health would continually take a hit.

That’s when she decided to pack her education in and sacrifice her GCSE’s, leaving education with no qualifcations to her name. Though Franky didn’t want to doss about and do nothing.

She sought purpose and always found that she got on better with adults. That’s when she decided to apply to the fish and chip shop to give herself something to do.

Franky started nearly three years ago and has worked her way up to supervisor and often covers managerial shifts. Her hard graft has not only paid off within the confines of the chippy but also has given her a huge platform on social media, often inspiring others.

She told us: “I’ve come with nothing, I have no GCSEs and was so bad with maths and English.

“Even with counting the tills, I struggled so much at first as I couldn’t count. But now, I can count so well just from counting the tills.

“When you say to people ‘I manage a fish and chip shop’ they probably think ‘oh you’re just frying food all day’ – but it’s not that. When I say I manage a fish and chip shop, I go in at 9am and as soon as those doors open it’s all down to me.

“There’s so many different parts that people forget that you’re doing; all of the food that goes out of the door, making sure all of the staff are safe, the deliveries, making sure the temperatures are correct…

“There’s so much more to it than people think.”