Drago
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Her Grandson standing up for himself would've upset Gran?
started my career as an accountant.
Cardboard box crusher for Boots the Chemists when I was 16.
Why so?What an incredibly interesting, but depressing thread to read.
Couldnt get a job as a student , lived i a tiny village with an irregular bus route , no other transport as parents couldnt afford to buy me a bike , when i got to school leaving age it was get a job we cant afford to send you to college .
How the heck did you get to school then?Couldnt get a job as a student , lived i a tiny village with an irregular bus route , no other transport as parents couldnt afford to buy me a bike
Why so?
Ah, right. Makes sense. Indeed, much easier times for casual work. Indeed, chatting to my manager when I was working in the health food shop I asked her how long she'd been there. She said several months. When I expressed surprise she said that she spent her summers at the Serpentine in Hyde Park, swimming and sunbathing and just hanging out with the bunch of people who did likewise, then in the autumn she'd have a look round and pick a job to see her through the winter and earn enough money to get her through her year. She'd been doing it for years. This was back in the early '70s. Those were the d-a-a-ays my friend, we thought they'd ne-e-ever end....How times change.
I never had a paper round, I couldn't get one. I did try and get a job on several farms in summer picking, but there were always long waiting lists. Jobs in my youth were data inputter and medical records clerk. It's all been downhill since then the last few years (I earn less in real terms than what I did in the last decade).
I have a relative who rings up and asks when I'm going to MTFU and get rid of the 'saturday job'. It really winds me up, it took me 7 years to get that job, but I am aware some other people do it at 16.
Some pretty mad stuff on the thread too.
school coach from junior school onward . local school at the time was for what they would call reception now i guess .How the heck did you get to school then?