What was your Saturday job as a young 'un?

[missyburd]

As title really.

I worked in a petshop for 2 years on a saturday and then a hippy shop on sundays :)

[Biker Biggles]

Deckhand/boat crew in summer and dogsbody in a garage in winter.

[dizzyblonde]

Did the obligatory paper round, then progressed to working at JJBs, a bakers shop, short stint in a care home(during hols), then Tesco.

[Dave20046]

Rentboy

[GeneticBubble]

Paper round and then/now the local co-op longing for the day i can escape

[metalhead19]

Worked in a garden centre whilst at college, not at B&Q during uni.

[Dicky Ticker]

5:00am start seven days a week combining milk,fresh rolls and papers finishing at 8:00am
in all honesty I got paid more for that than I did when I started my apprenticeship.

[Amplimator]

I used to work on the market setting up/taking down the stalls as soon as i started high school til i left.

cycle 3 miles to a 4am start (on my rainbow painted raliegh burner ;) ), fin at 8am for another 3 mile cycle to school. then after school cycle back til 6 pm then cycle home. 3 days a week, sometimes on the stall all day saturdays for extra money selling fruit and veg, clothes or trainers on various diff stalls :)




suddenly i feel really old

[Jabba]

Assistant Coffin Maker :thumbsup:

[tigersaw]

Paper rounds, Wood recycle yard, market garden centre (fave job ever - drove tractors, rode horses, dated saturday girls)

[Tara]

i was a junior at hairdressers then a waitress in a restaurant

[Nobbylad]

Saturday mornings I was up at 4am to go to the dairy to load the milk float with the milkman...helped every morning before school 5.30am up, 6am start. But Saturdays was double delivery so I'd start at 4.30am and finish around 10 or 11. Then, every other week, I'd be up to the pub opposite the Kop turnstiles at Anfield to glass collect before and after the match. Then I'd help out DJ'ing in the same pub lol.

Through the week I did milk in the morning, delivered the Echo (similar to Evening Standard) after school, then Thursdays and Fridays after the paper round it was collecting milk money. Sunday was the only day off. I was happy as Larry and always had enough money to do stuff that I wanted to do (on the rare occasion I had any free time!)

[pookie]

paper round and then local toy shop :) Loved the radio controlled cars / scalextric and 00 guage

[Bluefish]

worked in my dads sheetmetal factory, from the age of 13, wish it was only a saturday job.

[Milky Bar Kid]

I had a paper round to begin with but I hated it so gave that up.

Then I got a job waitressing in a local Chinese. Worked there for 2 n half years, did *ahem* 16 hours a week and got a really good wage. I the end I gave it up because the boss was expecting too much from me. He was expecting me to train the new restaurant staff and used to bollock me if they messed things up but didn't give me anymore money or anything and I was in 6th year at school so had mock exams coming up.

I went about a month without a job then got one in our local supermarket. Started off on checkouts but ended up doing the freezers mainly. Pretty much got as many hours as I liked in there.

[maviczap]

Paper round to start off, then did the local Saturday evening football paper as well

Progressed to working at a pig farm Sat & Sun mornings, mucking out the pigs, in the maternity unit

Cute little piglets, sows and boars not so cute

[timwilky]

brew boy and odd job lad on Chevron formula Atlantic, formula ford/5000 and formula 2 teams. got to play with some fancy kit in its day.

After that I went assembling Hondas out of their shipping crates. Once I left school and got a proper job, Saturdays was for sleeping off Friday night.

[Lozzo]

5:00am start seven days a week combining milk,fresh rolls and papers finishing at 8:00am
in all honesty I got paid more for that than I did when I started my apprenticeship.

Similar story here. I had three paper rounds - every morning on the same three long roads, every evening round 30 houses spread throughout the village, and a weekly advertising rag round half the village on Thursdays. At weekends I worked in my dad's electrical shop all day Saturdays and on Sunday I'd spend the morning fixing kettles and irons etc on a piece rate basis for my dad (putting new flexes on or replacing elements kind of thing). I'd also do other electrical repairs on some evenings when the work was there. My school teachers wondered if I had time for school and I was always being told I had to study more and work less, to be honest I didn't do anything to change but still got 5 O Levels at grade B and went on to do 2 A levels at college.

I earned 24 quid a week from paper-rounds alone and charged labour at a quid an item repaired for my dad's shop regardless of what it required (it balanced out well with easy and hard jobs). When I joined the army I took a pay-cut down to £21-56 as an apprentice vehicle mechanic in REME. This was in 1978.

[Nobbylad]

I remember starting my YTS, £29.50 per week plus £3 travel money. The £3 easily covered my petrol for my step-through! lol

[fizzwheel]

First Job was a paper round, which was 7 days a week, plus delivering the local rag on Thursday afternoons after school.

Then I got a job delivering for the local Chemist to the old peoples homes and Dr's surgeries etc, that was week days only after school.

I had to give that up when I went to college as I wouldnt get finished from college in time and got a job working Saturdays in a DIY store. Then picked up some evening shifts and the occasional sunday.

When I left college and got my first proper job, the pay was so cack that I kept working in the DIY store on Saturdays and every third sunday. I used to earn more working in the DIY store at weekends than I did working the helpdesk at my first proper job.

Life seemed a lot less complicated then...

[diamond]

I feel like i missed out, i never had a saturday job.:(

[Holdup]

Got a Saturday job when i was 16 at a Honda motorcycle dealer 2 years and a bit later and they offered me me a parts apprenticeship which ive now been doing for almost 3 months now :D

[xXBADGERXx]

Used to do the obligatory paper-round as a nipper on my Raleigh Chopper (late 70`s) , detested Thursdays as I had to also deliver the North Wales Weekly News which was bigger than any Sunday paper . And of course .... Sundays , double return to the newsagents for more papers , sigh . Then I got a job at a chippy in the early 80`s , get to work for 6am and peel the spuds in a grit drum and then load them into a chipping machine , how I never lost a finger I will never know . The chips were then left in water with a chemical called Dri-White added to it , that stuff made me sneeze like a machinegun . I used to hold my breathe , throw the stuff in , douse it with hose and jam hose down the side of the tub full of chips and leg it out of there for a new intake of air . Back home for a shower then off to School ... all that for £20 a week .

Then I got a job at a famous Hotel in Llandudno , the owners were about as close to Basil and Sybill Fawlty as you could get . I put up with a lot of stick there from Chefs and whatnot and that`s where I learnt to give as good as I get , much to the point that new Chefs and Staff were warned not to mess with the potwasher ..... "Who , that bloke there ?" ..... "That`s not a bloke , he`s actually 14" . I used to ride the 6 miles to work on my BMX , I was 6ft 2 and must have looked like a right berk . I eventually quit that job after they called me in one night as they were short staffed . My dad loaded my bike in the boot of his car and ended up getting smacked in the face by a Bungee and it really hurt him , he took me to work anyway . I got in and the Boss came storming in around 20 minutes later yelling "What time do you call this" etc etc , I dried my hands and faced him , despite the staff telling him I was the one that came in at short notice to replace the other person who hadn`t turned up . I explained that my Father loaded my bike and brought me in as quickly as possible and ended up getting hurt in the process and I would appreciate an apology . He retorted with "Well your Father must be an Oaf and an Idiot to have hurt himself in ....... " He never got to finish the sentence and I effectively terminated my contract by making him lie on the floor by applying my fist at high speed to his Pompous , Buck Toothed , Overbitten Glass Jaw .

As fate would have it , I was cycling home with a very sore hand from the very place and noticed a Country Hotel on the way home , I cycled up the drive and asked for a job . I was given a quick interview by the Head of Kitchen/Waiting On Staff . He asked me where I worked before and I told him and the look on his face was of instant hate , turns out the Hotels were in competition for certain awards . He asked why I left there and I was honest about it all as I had a funny feeling it was going to work to my advantage . He picked up the phone and rang the rival Hotel and asked for me . "Is Neil from the Kitchen there please ? ............... Oh , Right ....... Did he ? Blimey !!! , ok sorry to disturb you ." He put down the phone and , with a Glint in his eye and a wry smile , offered me a job for as long as I wanted to stay there . I stayed til the middle of my A levels and had a hoot there working evenings and weekends .

[Girth]

Had the ole paper round, jacked that in to work in a mountain bike shop, ended up there most of the time, then jacked that in to go full time mechanic at another mountain bike shop etc etc and a few more jobs later moved to where i am now in September last year loving it :D

[orose]

I feel like i missed out, i never had a saturday job.:(

I was thinking the same - didn't have a job of any sort until I did my work placement at uni.

[Mr Speirs]

Checkout Chick for Tesco. Awesome!!!

[BBadger]

Im still young and have it ....anyone got a gun......i wish to go postal.

[seedy100]

So many years ago :-({|=

Paper boy > Saturday boy at Fine Fare > Kitchen porter in a mental hospital > proter at fruit matket. Then college

[lily]

Use to work in WHSmiths on a Saturday and Sunday

[Bri w]

Paper round. Hated Thursdays coz of the Chester Chronicle, or was it Fridays. Sundays obviously, and i also did the farm run on a Sunday - 7am start - 10:30am finish. Used to do it on the run as training for footie, rugby and athletics.

Never had a 9 to 5 Saturday job.

[Jamesy D]

Don't have one - need one.


Anyone hiring? :P

[Razor]

paper round, supermarket shelf stacker, stock taking, pipe fitters labourer, chimney sweep, down the mines instead of a canary... tell young folks that today and they won't believe you

[kwak zzr]

i worked in a green grocers filling spud hoppers, stacking shelfs, mopping the floor ect, i got £25 ppw in 1986-87 which made me think i was loaded :)

[xXBADGERXx]

Interesting to see that a lot of people have worked for years and some of these "Youngsters" haven`t had a Saturday or Part Time job and own motorbikes and have passed expensive tests . How do you pay for everything like Insurance and Fuel ?

[Razor]

bank of mum & dad innit

[xXBADGERXx]

bank of mum & dad innit

Even still , a Learner bike and CBT , then lessons and test for Full Licence and then an SV with Insurance etc , that`s a massive outlay even for people that are moderately loaded .

[anna]

I had a paper round and half my wages went into "bank of mom" for housekeeping. The other half went into a post office savings account.

[Richie]

Fluffer for a Lesbian bar.... in my dreams :0)

[Razor]

Fluffer for a Lesbian bar.... in my dreams :0)

strap ons taste of plastic...

[Jayneflakes]

strap ons taste of plastic...
And Lube, which is icky... :smt061


Anyway, Mum would not allow me to have a Paper round, but I was allowed to work weekends in the local Cycle shop. Progressed from PDI Mechanic to loud mouthed harpy in three months according to the woman I worked for. We fell out and I walked out never to return. They owed me three days pay, but it was the principle of the thing.

Next Saturday job was working in another pushbike shop, ended up being best mates with the owner until he closed it down and bought a car dealership.

Then went to Uni and got a part time job in yet another bike shop and ended up as work shop manager. Had a great time. :D

Carol also had a Weekend job while she was young. She was a guard on the train that ran up Birnbeck Pier (technically a bridge to Birnbeck Island, the Pier came out from there). Sadly Birnbeck Island is derelict now and I think it breaks her heart every time she sees it.

[metalmonkey]

I was a cleaner in my school and a KP and local pub/resturant I had 2 jobs. I also learnt how to clean beer lines, I can still pour a good pint and clean lines should I have too:D

I then went to to the US for summer at I got $230 for being out there, the following summer I got $560 well it was a pay raise, in between was a waiter, cocktail bartender, worked in music store, computer game stores and was a runner! Whilst getting my HND.

[BanannaMan]

brew boy and odd job lad on Chevron formula Atlantic, formula ford/5000 and formula 2 teams. got to play with some fancy kit in its day.

After that I went assembling Hondas out of their shipping crates. Once I left school and got a proper job, Saturdays was for sleeping off Friday night.



:winner:
Lucky git!







Age 12-15, Saturdays and after school. I worked cleaning up cars took in on trade at the dealership where my old man was a car salesman.
Don't remember what it paid. At that age was happy just to drive the cars around. LOL

But of course what I remember most ....
Was there I met my first true love!
And what she was a red hot beauty she was!














My life would never be the same.

http://www.allenschevron.com/lil_BSA.jpg

[thulfi]

I worked at the bear factory/build-a-bear shop in Milton Keynes a few years back. Mate sorted me out with the job. You'd get to dress up as a bear when they have kids parties, and run around the shop causing havoc and messing stuff up being a naughty bear, great fun that was! Got stick from the lads working there though, but better than a clothes shop and who ever manages to get HMV?!

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2629/mebear.jpg

This is me in the smelly suit that never got washed. You come out of it drenched, and you can only see through the nose when you put the bears head on. Took out quite a few mums and granny's by flapping my arms around when walking/running. It's like trying to look out of a single bog roll, no peripheral vision what-so-ever!

I hate dancing and doing lame stuff normally, but amazing what you're willing to do when you're undercover in a bear suit :-)

[xXBADGERXx]

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2629/mebear.jpg

This is me in the smelly suit that never got washed.

:winner:

[barwel1992]

did a 300 od paper round posting the free paper's (i got £8 a hour) i never delivered them and took them all to the recycling place :lol:

[mister c]

I used to do a milk round from the age of about 12 during the week from 2 am till school time & also worked on a record stall on the market in Crewe on a Saturday.
I was offered a job as a milkman when I left school for £150 a week, but my mother (bless her) told me I had to find a decent career, so ended up working in a Tool Hire shop for £25 a week :(
Still in the Tool & Plant Industry & hate most of it, but it's all I know

[missyburd]

I feel like i missed out, i never had a saturday job.:(
I had no choice. Mum wouldn't let me have a paper round being a girl :rolleyes: but at 16 I was told I would have to start paying board (only a tenner a week but still a hell of a lot for a teenager with little to spare!). I was told I had to get a job that summer. So I saw an ad in the local petshop, got an application form, got an interview and bam! the job was mine. Felt great, I'd beaten loads of others to get it :D

Around the same time of applying for the petshop I had wandered down a street and asked for a job in one of the shops there, just one. She said yeah let's have a trial run on sundays. I'm still there now :D That rubbed it in my parents' faces a bit, I'd managed to get 2 jobs instead of one hehe.

Interesting to see that a lot of people have worked for years and some of these "Youngsters" haven`t had a Saturday or Part Time job and own motorbikes and have passed expensive tests . How do you pay for everything like Insurance and Fuel ?

Good question. Wish I could rely on the bank of mum and dad but I don't appear to have an account :-(

[metalangel]

Never had one... Saturdays were watching Garfield and Friends in the morning, then eating samosas while watching Red Dwarf or Blackadder in the afternoon, and then play Gunship 2000 or something on the computer all afternoon.

And do homework. Maybe. I suppose I missed out, I didn't have a job until my 'gap year' before university.

[yorkie_chris]

Started off washing up in a pub/resteraunt, then glass collecting, then behind bar. Used to do a bit of fabricating and general fixing and bodging too.

[the_lone_wolf]

First job was when I was around 12 I think - typical paper round, got paid something daft like £2.50/h but I did it every day Monday thru Sunday for several months during term time

On a good day it was quite fun, on a bad day (Sunday editions and heavy rain were the worst) it was miserable, but it was great to have an independent income, as small as it was. I must have been one of the few who didn't blow most of their wages buying stuff in the paper shop on payday:D

Other odd job was working for Royal Mail one summer - they paid very well compared to the rest of the Island and it left my summer afternoons free. Also, you could pretty much drive to work at 60mph at ~3am and not see another soul. Actually enjoyed it and it had a smaller proportion of cocksockets compared to pretty much every other employment I've had:D

[cuffy]

Worked in the local grocers on Saturdays and 2/3 evenings after school, used to use my wages to "speculate" at school, i was the only one with a regular income so i always had a ready supply of ciggies and other contraband which i could sell for extortionate rates, also used to loan people money and charge "average" interest rates ;)
But the most enterprising was to buy the dinner tags off of the single parent kids for £10 a term, i then use to hire the tags out for £1 a day.
My initial out lay used to be on average £100 a term but then i used to pull in £50 a week by hiring them out to my mates. My old man could never work out where i got all my money from, still it gave me savings to buy my 1st bike (Suzuki X1) after school i left to do my YTS as a chef earning a massive £27:50p a week. How many people could say they were earning more at school :(

[Specialone]

As well as helping the milkman in my earlier years, i used to help on some saturdays at my friends fathers joinery firm, he used to pay us £10 a day which made me feel loaded ;), he used to buy us all our sandwiches and everything, sadly i found out late last year he had passed away after the event, i would have gone to his funeral had i known about it, he was a good man who probably got me more interested in woodwork than anyone.

[Sean_C]

Never needed an official saturday job, as I was in a band earning bloody good money by anybody's standards. Still go out doing that, it makes a mockery of my apprentice wages.

[timwilky]

These B21's are pictured down at Red Rose (My playground)
http://www.chevronheritage.com/chronicles/003/images/01.jpg

although the red rose cars I knew were B23's

http://www.imca-slotracing.com/images/73EU2-22-Chevron-Red%20Rose%20Racing.jpg

Most of the time I worked with Richard Sherwood on B29 formulaa Atlantic
http://www.race-cars.com/utility/photos/chevron/c29005pa.jpg


The glory days went up in a puff of a car too many King Edwards, when the customs looked too closely at Tony Dean's KEC specal


Please note, the photos are representative of the cars, from the net, not my own

[BanannaMan]

Sweet Tim!!!!
:thumbsup: