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Originally Posted by 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.
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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.