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

Did it prepare you for later employment?


Gwyn

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

never ever had pocket money :-(

From the age of 14 I did paper rounds, one at night and 4 on a Sunday morning.

When I was 15 I worked in a local cake shop on a Saturday until I was accepted into the Police Cadets at 16. Had no choice really as there was no money forthcoming from my parents.

Chris

:-0 Ann,

My mum came home from shopping one day and told me she had got me a saturday job in a bakers shop, I was 14.

Worked 8.30am till 6.00pm for 7s-6p, and 4 fresh cream cakes.

I remember I used to sit on the bus home clutching my box of cakes for mum dad and my brother.

Barbara :-D :-D

I did a paper round for a couple of years, then also had a saturday job in a haberdashers i loved it .

At 16 I left school and took a job as an Office Junior....

I brushed the stores, made tea and coffee and licked over 100 envelopes everyday pmsl........I loved that job!! :-D

mine was in a shop it only lasted 6 weeks before
i told somebody where to shove their trolley

the boss told me to say sorry so i told him where to shove the said trolley to


BUT i did have a new job to start the following monday at a vets
which was much better

I had a paper round mornings and evening papers started at 14 years old got paid 12s 6d

Started full time work at 15 years and was paid £4 0s 3d for 5 and a half days, Monday to Saturday lunch

If i worked all day Saturday and a Sunday morning until 1pm i was paid £5 10s 6d

these figures are take home pay after deductions

Roy

I worked Saturdays in Woolies when I was 15, then a few months later got a job in a record shop.

When I was 16 I worked in a Wimpy bar on various shifts - Saturdays, Sundays and evenings.

Once I became a student I did the Christmas post every year which I hated. I also worked in shops, bars and as a play leader.

I don't think any of it excapt play leading prepared me for teaching.

Gwynne

Worked in a factory for a couple of months between school and college. It was hard work and I can remember my first week's pay - I had £40 (never had that much cash before) for a 40-hour week.

i worked in a childrens day nursery when i left school age 16 ,5days a week and in the evenings i worked in a local hotel as a waitress,mum got my wages from my nursery job as keep(quite a lot of money) and i kept my wages from my second job for my fags,makeup and clothes,i worked until i got married age 17,
stayed at home until my children went to school ,then trained as a nurse and worked evenings in a nursing home to bring some money in .
still work in the n/.h.s. :-D

I worked in the qulality control department for a genealogy company but got the sack for being too accurate

I got a job in Debenhams in Oxford Street as a trainee chef in 1967.Turned that down to make police uniforms and that blue serge on my 15th birthday same year
Annie