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i still got decent pocket money till i was 19 so didnt need a job

:-D

i dd do glass collecting but that was more just for fun

Had a saturday job washing up in a restaurant when I was 13 lol.

Progressed onto working after school and Saturdays at a bakery...

then onto a toy shop over Christmas (much better money)...

then back to the bakery until I left school.

If I didn't work then I wasn't given any money by my parents at all...if I worked they'd top it up ....taught me a work ethic that I hope to instil into my girls in due course. x

Wanted do do a paper round (tom boy that I was) but
mum said no way.Sandy where we bought our sweets
and ice cream 5 doors down where we lived wanted
someone to help out in his shop, got the job and was
delighted.
When i left school my first job was a junior in Isaac Benzies,
in their new teen dept.

Emma

my first job aged 16 - shorthand typist in Liverpool Victoria - £3.5s a week - good money at the time - Saturday morning was part of the working week

Four years later Secretary to Managing Director of Freeman's Cigar factory - makers of Manikin and Hamlet - stayed there for eleven years until the birth of my son - no maternity leave in those day

When he started school started as a secretary in local psychiatric hospital - Whitchurch - stayed there until retirement - nearly thirty years - best job of the lot

Never had a saturday / holiday job, I was thrown in at the deep end with my very first job when I left school just before my 15th birthday.

Straight into full-time work, at the local childrens Day Nursery, a 9 hour day with 1 hour for dinner, Mon--Fri) we had to remain on the premises for our provided meal.
There were many rules & regulations in the workplace & much work to be done, & not just caring for the children.
Certainly prepared me for future employment AND the big wide world.

Joan.

I never had a Saturday job, my Mum wouldn't countenance me 'working in Woolworths' snob that she was. I left school, just 16, worked in a Shipyard Office for two months from the september, was allowed to have the school holidays off, took an exam and went straight into the Civil service (Admiralty). I think, looking back the 2 months in a small office prepared me for the discipline of working.

Maybe you had a Saturday job or helped out in a family business.

Did it prepare you for later employment?


Gwyn