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Jobs you did as a teenager
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Meter reader. It wasn't much fun in the rough areas where they still had cellars and you had to stamp hard as you went down to scare the rats away. But where they had outside meters, I could be finished by 11 and then nip off for a game of golf before the van came to pick up at 3.30.
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Toughest was helping on a coal round. Up at an ungodly hour, exhausting work, then an hout trying to get all the coal dust off in the coal mine's showers.
Also had a job lining up cars for transporter drivers. Had to go and find them in an enormous compound first, and half the time they had flat batteries. Easy job though but rubbish pay. Had only passed my test a few months previous, so eff knows how I got the gig. |
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Helped my dad on his milk round in the early eighties.Done the call backs with him on a Friday afternoon after school and then on Saturday and Sunday mornings.He was always in a rush at the weekends to get home for the footie and racing..At Christmas 1981 at 11 years of age I got over 80 quid in tips..a lot of dosh for a young lad back then...If I remember correctly my old man got about 700...could have got a car for that back then..
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Saturday job 14-15 ,general dogsbody in a caff
YTS govt scheme ,3 months - painting curch halls ,and fixing together pieces of plastic  Bakery -10 months - extremely good pay for an 18 year old and a great job  most enjoyment i've had in a 'proper job' -in todays money around £500 a week - didn't get a permanent position hell,this is like writing out a CV  |
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While at school worked at a garage on the petrol pumps for 25p an hour rising to 30p and hour after a while. Poor pay as some of my schoolmates were earning double that or more at Marks or Woolies.
Did Royal Mail at Christmas for a couple of years while I was a student. Quite enjoyed it and it was decent money in the late 70's. Also worked at the foundry where my dad worked one summer. £40 a week he managed to negotiate for me. It was pretty grim. Best job was on course bookies clerk which I did during university holidays. Travelled round lots, stayed away, drank lots and earned good money. Did the dogs too. I got about £10-12 for horses and £15 I think for the dogs - which was generous of him as he always seemed to do his money at the dog track. |