What was your Saturday job as a young 'un?

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

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

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.

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.

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...