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over a year ago
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Used to clean up a car park that belonged to the local diy shop at the time..pick up the rubbish with a litter stick and sweep and bag the worst of the leaves.
Took me about an hour all in and i got a fiver for it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shampoo girl in local hairdressers...
downside washing a gazillion old ladies hair every Saturday...
upside free perms for me...jeez 50% of my posts today have been about my 80s big hair  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Saturday job in a newsagents. £11 for all day Saturday that we used to then spend on a night out in a local nightclub. I'm always amazed we used to be able to have a good night out on that when i was 16  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cleaning the potato peeler machine and general cleaning at the local chippy"
I did this! But then it was my parents chippy so it was more like chores than a real job  Moved on up to peeling them once i could shoulder the bags |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Saturday job in a newsagents. £11 for all day Saturday that we used to then spend on a night out in a local nightclub. I'm always amazed we used to be able to have a good night out on that when i was 16 "
Those were the days eh?!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Early morning cleaner. Used to get in from clubbing at 3am and then be up and out again by 5:30am. Those were the days, cleaning mirrors and buffing floors before the hangover had chance to kick in |
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By *inzi LTV/TS
over a year ago
The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales |
My first job was on a farm, bringing the cows in for milking, feeding the other animals, mucking out. Using various machines including driving tractors & trailers, watching and often helping new life enter the world and shooting the vermin with shotguns. Harvesting was a great time, hard work but you'd get a proper Farm Lunch, including a bottle of Forest Brown Ale*.
I got paid occasionally, fed regularly and learned so much about life... and death and I loved it. Every child should try it, the freedom is fantastic. Infact, it should be compulsory!
P.S. Going back to the * mark, any people that remember Forest Brown Ale will understand that many moons have passed since then! I was 6 or 7 years old and about 4 n' a half foot high... I was an adult in a boys body and treated accordingly.
Those were the best days of my life... sure there's a song there somewhere... having said that, I would go home and listen to radio Luxembourg! |
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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Paper round when I was 11 or 12 (I think) that got me £3 a week...then progressed to weekend/school holiday working in a garden centre at £7.00 a day...and finally first proper job as a porter in a department store for 7 months to fill the gap before my ill fated short time in the Navy.
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Saturday teaching riding - £2 a day! I had a summer holiday job with horses in a village near Beverley in Yorkshire for £14.65 a week plus 50p (plus tips!) for one evening a week pulling pints in the Dog & Duck.
The pub is still there - I went and had lunch in it whilst on a fab meet!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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First job was a YTS at Dorothy Perkins .. £23.50 a week
I never had a Saturday job or went to college.. just left school at 16 and went straight to work |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I ran end of term parties for 6th form students. Started when I was in 6th form with my school, rented a venue, brought in my own dj and door staff, got the tickets printed and sold them all myself... Made a decent return so set about doing this across a number of schools near where I lived. Discovered for very little outlay I could make good money and could repeat 3 times each year... Summer, Christmas and valentines |
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Ha!
I was 15 and resisting all attempts to get me to work when my parents found a weekend job in a florists at a dreadful rate.
Got lucky with a friend and ended up working in the centre-manager's office at the newly opened Clarks Village, a factory-shopping outlet.
This paid an adult wage and time-a-half on Bank Hols.
Apart from two of the older guys who worked there it was a good first job. There was an old Communist I used to work with and one of his maxims was "The bigger the car the bigger the cunt."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Helping my step-dad working on pig farms age 12. I'd get a fiver for a day. First proper employed position was in a chippy for £2.00 an hour aged 14.
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