Saturday jobs.....

[captainbovine]

did you have one?

I worked in woolworths for two years. I did all kinds, it was a good laugh really, although nowadays I wouldn't be allowed to do half of what I was told to do...I was using a bailing machine aged 16!!! I had to stand up against the wall and push the huge bale of cardboard out of the machine with my legs....

I spent all day once, in the fixture room sorting out the glass and metal pieces for dividing up the counters (remember that?) I was rotten filthy when I got home hahahahah oh those were the days!

[stan3502]

I started having little extra jobs for pocket money from about the age of 12.

I started with a paper round which believe me with all the long farm tracks and distances between the houses here was no easy task, I then moved on to baby sitting and funnily enough even used to wash glasses and wait on in the pub that I eventually took over myself.

[tintinthegingertomcat]

My first Saturday job was shelf stacking in the Coop then I went to work in Lewis' in Leicester on the costume jewellery section - this was alongside another weekend job - waitressing at the Berni Inn on a Sunday lunch and evening. I loved the waitressing job when I got plenty of tips and hated it when I got no tips.

[**roofie**]

All four of us had Saturday jobs when we were growing up. I started at 12! I was a shampoo girl at a local hairdressers. I worked there for around 1 and a half years and sometimes almost full time during school holidays. I loved it. Then I got a job in a local hardware store after that working Saturdays and holidays and only gave it up when I started work at full time aged almost 16.

[**streety**]

I worked at our local newsagents and loved it.   It wasn't the best place to learn about the working world  as we used to mess about so much and got away with it!
I also cleaned a local playgroup for £3 a week!
One of the best jobs I had was working at The Surrey research park.  It was atemporary job with my friends and others sorting through questionaires on post offices within shops or supermarkets.  We had such a laugh reading some of the answers.  Absolutely brilliant memories.

[stampingpat]

I had all sorts....... Baby sitting at a really young age and paper route too. Mowing lawns and raking leaves. And then when I was older 13 and up I worked in a restuarant doing all the different jobs, except bar tending. Too young for that. And at 16 I became a grill cook for a little drive in diner.

[xtf70]

When I was 16 I had a Saturday morning (and summer holiday) job on a small mixed-arable farm - planting, harvesting, cutting cabbages, potato picking and best of all - mucking out the cow-shed. The worst part about it was having to cycle 4 miles each way to do it - all for 10/- (50p for you young 'uns)!

After that I got an all-day Saturday job at an agricultural seed merchant - still humping hundredweight sacks of seed potatoes but at least I wasn't out in all weathers

[carolyorkie2010]

I didn't have a Saturday job, but I did work Saturdays in my full-time job when I left school; I remember the counters, CB, and the glass dividers etc. And underneath them where the understock went. Stores have come along way since then, haven't they? LOL

[duck_a_lorange]

Tesco, on the tills. That was Thursday and Friday evenings and all day Saturday.  I must have been about 17.  I remember I got £4.04 and spent my first paypacket on a rug for my mum, for when she dozed off on the sofa.  I got a right telling off for wasting my money and not putting it in my savings account.  (Didn't care though - she used it...)

Also remember the lovely crash when somebody brought down a six-foot display of coke bottles (all glass then).  And only just managing to persuade a silly woman not to buy the bloated tin of blackberries that looked ready to go off if you only looked at it in a funny way.

[duck_a_lorange]

I used to love going to Woolworths, especially at Christmas.  I liked the wooden counters, and all the fascinating bits and bobs.  And when you bought a lightbulb, they tested it for you on the counter before they let you take it away.  Pound shops don't even come close.

[ed_blackadder_1]

I worked in the corner shop on a Saturday when I was at college, geat fun and as it was around the corner from my gran I used to pop in for lunch with her and my granfer, we used to have cheese and marmite on Ryvitas.

[cookiecookuk]

my sister and i worked cleaning holiday chalets along the river bank were we lived .we got £5 per chalet between us and the first thing we use to do was search the kitchen and bathroom for things the holiday makers had left(washing up liquid  salt vinigar  shampoo loo rolls ect) and when we got home gave it all to mum.this use to be good as it stretched her housekeeping a bit father

[**roofie**]

And when you bought a lightbulb, they tested it for you on the counter before they let you take it away

We used to do that in the little hardware store I worked at. Happy days...

[tropicalbabe6]

I worked in :Liverpool Church St woolies in the cash office,Mrs tranter in the food department had pink hair, A great big melting pot blasting out in the record dept! what a fabulous shop it was,mr Howard the manager could have been Howard keel,all the lovely scousers,and assistants behind the counters,the place was buzzing!

[**streety**]

Waves to Roofie..  !!  How are you Ruth? <a href="http://www.sherv.net/emoticons.html"><img alt="Oh! Hello" width=105 height=68 src="http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/hello/oh-hello-smiley-emoticon.gif"></a>

[**streety**]

That's supposed to be a waving smilie..... 😕

[fishpieface]

I did a paper round every morning, sometimes two or even three if somebody didn't turn up.

On Saturdays I worked in a greengrocers.  That was fun.  One afternoon I turned around to

get something and got caught on the great big hook that held newspaper.  It caught the

seat of my trousers and the others had popped out the back for something.  So there I

was, impaled on this hook, unable to get off, with a queue of customers watching (and

laughing!).  After what seemed like ages, I was rescued.

We used to be able to take the bruised fruit home at the end of the day, oh the peaches and

plums were delicious after cutting little bruises out.  It was a real bummer if there weren't any

bruised ones by about five o-clock!

[**roofie**]

Haha Streety. *waves back* I'm very well thank you. Loving my retirement. How's you?

[rose2008-2008]

I worked in a pub restaurant washing up and a little table setting when i was 16 to 17!!. I loved it and they were such lovely people, made sure everyone got home safely as it was a late job. Gave us a meal. Then i went to work in another restaurant , it was a friend of my mothers who worked there and was the boss. I HATED IT!!!. We had to wear long skirts,, and in those days they had the dessert trollies??, remember them. I cannot remember if i left or got sacked!!!!. They were the only two jobs i had i think. Memories.