Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Paper round. Used to delivery the free papers at a penny a paper, had to do 300 and something papers. Was great when we got leaflets to go with them as the extra money really boosted the pay.
Your first (paid) job...
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raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
As long as you weren't one of those that used to stick about half a dozen (identical) ones in each letterbox, still get that these days.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
Paperboy then co-op deliveries - on one of those bikes with the small front wheel and the cage for the goods. I then got a Saturday job in a bike shop. First 'proper' job was as a warden on a nature reserve.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Telegram boy delivery in 1964. Can't remember how much I was paid but it enabled me to buy my first record player and a few records. I was only 14 then. That was in the town of Dreux in France. That was a summer job, in August . Good memories.
KnackeredBike
I do my own stunts
First ever job was picking strawberries (dire), then refereeing youth football games (okay pay when you're 14).
First (proper) job was working in Primark, with a whole bunch of hormonal sixteen and seventeen year olds. Spent most of the time hooking up with colleagues and planning after work drinks as opposed to anything productive, but I was only on £3.86 an hour. Pay peanuts, get unpleasant stains on the cushions...
First (proper) job was working in Primark, with a whole bunch of hormonal sixteen and seventeen year olds. Spent most of the time hooking up with colleagues and planning after work drinks as opposed to anything productive, but I was only on £3.86 an hour. Pay peanuts, get unpleasant stains on the cushions...
- Location
- Glasgow
Grape picking: that was hard, even at 17!
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
- Location
- Glasgow
NoGrape picking. In Glasgow?
Slick
Guru
Ha ha, we've got trains and everything now.Grape picking. In Glasgow?
Like most people in rural Ireland (well in potato growing regions) until the mid 1990s I would have been gathering potatoes from the age of about 9 or 10 for £2 per day, c1989. Basically pick potatoes up from the ground and put them in a basket and then empty the basket into a trailer. I think my back would complain if I did it now but I've always found the mechanised modern version mind-numbingly boring.
The schools were basically empty in the months of September and October
The schools were basically empty in the months of September and October
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
As per most on here I started with a paper round - 2 actually delivering the local Evening Star 6 days a week and also a Sunday morning round.
My first full time job started with being a floor runner at the local bingo hall, eventually being promoted all the way to main caller 5 afternoons & eveings per week.
My first full time job started with being a floor runner at the local bingo hall, eventually being promoted all the way to main caller 5 afternoons & eveings per week.
damj
Well-Known Member
Paper round, age 14, 'Cooper and Bradford (VC winners DLI) in Durham City, loved the smell of fresh newspapers. Seven days a week £3. Still got the curvature to prove it. Hated it but it paid for my BMX, and footie matches at Roker park.
One memory, a milk float passed me during a snow blizzard one morning. The driver threw me a carton of orange juice. I can still taste it..
One memory, a milk float passed me during a snow blizzard one morning. The driver threw me a carton of orange juice. I can still taste it..
oldfatfool
Guru
Running a bouncy castle at 14 before graduating to the dodgems. Following year was spent either dressed up as the pink panther or taking photos of the aforementioned with punters on Brid seafront. Ah a gloriously misspent youf.
