Did you have a Saturday job when very young and was was it

ANother BHS old girl here, I worked on the food counters, mainly bacon and cheese. I hated the old dears who expected me to shave the cheese so they had exactly 4 ounces! There was also a cake counter and a half hour or so before closing the superviser came round and told us to sell everything left at half price. Ten minutes before she came round we put 'our' selection into the chiller under the counter and when she's been round we 'bought' our cakes for half price!

Potato picking first for me on the farm where my uncle worked. You picked into a basket and then threw it into the trailer. Because I am shy the men called me Dozy Dora as I only spoke when spoken to! Next my Mum got me a weekend job at the cafe 4 doors down from our house. We had a long upstairs room as well as the cafe and had coach parties in. One time a party of race goers were in and I managed to spill minestrone soup all down a man’s back. He was very nice about it. Then the cafe owner gave it up and went to work as head waiter at a local hotel. He asked if I and my sister would go to work as waitresses. It was silver service and I was proud that I never dropped anything else! We were also left alone on Sunday afternoon to serve afternoon tea to customers who came in, making sandwiches from scratch and also the tea. We were 15 and 13.

My first job was in 1966, I was 12 and worked in the sweet kiosk at the local zoo, paid £1 for Saturdays and £1.50 for Sunday’s. Graduated to Saturday girl at C&A when I was 16, for £4 a day. All through my teens, I did occasional waitressing (my mum worked for an outside catering company and they were always looking for casual staff). It was usually great fun and I loved earning my own money.

In 1956 I too, like oldgimmerl, collected newspaper money on Saturday morning. I was 14 at the time. It would not be safe these days to carry a bag of cash around. I found one of the ladies I called on in a state of collapse one cold Christmas Eve. I ran to the nearby doctors surgery for help. The lady was taken to hospital where she died a few days later. I was so thankful she was warm and cared for, not lying on the cold floor lonely and frightened when she died.

Yes several over the years. First one at 13-14 was working at the local zoo taking Exmoor ponies and donkeys around for the children to have rides and in rainy days I helped out in the children's zoo, absolutely loved every minute the money earned was a bonus. I also worked in a shop selling handbags, etc. Had no choice if I wanted anything as my family had little spare money. Worked in the holidays between my two years at college to pay for the books for next year. Gave me a brilliant work ethic so full time work wasn't a shock.x

Started in corner shop used bacon slicer , plus cold meat slicer 10hours a week for 30s aged 12
DD also had job in butchers at 13. GD works as chamber maid in hotel chain weekends.
Come from a family of workers

My Saturday job was in a small family run bakery. My job was to put pastry in the foil cases then pull a lever and it pressed the pastry into the case shape. I got 50p for two hours work. The only drawback was I ended up with one boob larger than the other from pulling the lever!! Been the bain of my life with trying to get clothes to fit properly ??

I didn't have a Saturday job as too much homework and things to do with pony.

I did do the Post Office at Christmases. Loved it, great fun and very well paid. time and 3/4 on a Sunday!

Did a summer holiday job packing electoral components, hated it but they kept asking for me as I packed parcels beautifully!

It was Woolworths and downstairs on hardware selling nails etc. Each department had their own tills. I really wanted to work with the food but you didn't get a choice.

I worked in a local sell lots of different things type shop called Town Stores when I was 15 and 16 on Friday evenings ( late night shopping) and all day Saturday. I got 17/6 for both days together, that was in 1968/69. I also babysat once a week for a a couple from age 15 and the dad would drive me home afterwards. I wouldn’t let my daughters do it. I placed an advert in the local shop and basically they didn’t know me from Adam! My first career was in childcare and the year after I went to college and completed an NNEB diploma.

I worked in the local newsagent/sweet shop on Saturdays for a year when I was 15 but as soon as I was old enough for a national insurance card I got a job in the local library, which I loved. Worked there in the school holidays too. Most of my earnings went through the tills at Biba, Bus Stop and Anello and Davide (shoes). I loved that library staff weren't restricted to a small number of books as the customers were and ended up very well read!

I worked for Kodak in Leeds sorting out the photos. We got some ‘interesting’ ones at times and had to report them!

I had a Saturday job in a sweet shop - yum I thought. However after a while you really get fed-up of sweets! I loved the job and used to do some evenings and school holidays, too.

My first Saturday job was in a shoe shop, Freeman Hardy & Willis & I absolutely hated it. There was a lot of standing around & you was under a lot of pressure to reach set targets especially on "extras" (polishes etc that nobody wanted) It was ok in the summer hols when the sales was on (& we would get first pick on sale shoes) but working there showed me that retail work wasn't for me!

Had a paper round 7 days a week. 14/6 for Mon through Sat, 7/6 for Sundays. Plus Saturday job in Timothy Whites.

When we were teenagers my friend and I enquired about Saturday jobs in Littlewoods. We were interviewed on the spot then went and did a written test which we both passed. The supervisor was delighted to offer us jobs until she read on the application form that we were only 14! Apparently a year too young. Sadly we went home disappointed.

I worked in a delicatessan. was shocked when I dropped a slice of ham on the floor and was told to pick it up, wipe it clean (of sawdust) and sell it.

12/6 in a local draper’s shop. Woolworth’s were paying 15/- at the time, but the other ‘ Saturday girl’ and I were too scared to ask for a rise!

Sat girl in woolies 99p for a day! 1971 I was 15. Then in 1972 when I left school I wanted to work in a bank, but no jobs going and the manager of Woolworths asked If I wanted to work in their cash office. Loved it for 5+ years.

Woolworths on the drapery. counter, they gave me a nylon overall which came nearly down to my ankles ? but came in handy for my modesty when I used to have climb up a ladder to get the nets curtains down. Was then moved on to the sweet counter very busy & mix

Yes, from aged 13 to 15 I did a stint on a nearby farm on Saturdays 8-12.30.
Mucking out, feeding geese, collecting eggs etc.

From age 11 I babysat every evening for my mums friend who worked the twilight shift at the factory 5.00pm til 9.00pm. Her DH was at the pub every night. I used to stay over on a Friday and get up and take them out on a Saturday morning. They were 1, 2 &4!
For that I got £20 a week
No wonder I was desperate to become a mummy?

I was just coming up to 13 and half years old, when I got a Saturday job in a very upmarket China and Glasswear shop. I worked in Glasswear - loads of heavy red 'Venetian glass' back then. After my first initial fears I loved it (had told them I was 14 years old), also worked there full-time in the Xmas hols. Saturday pay was 15 shillings (9.00 - 5.30), and my Dad continued to give me my pocket money, so I felt pretty well off. A year later, the newsagens/ tobaccanists opposite where we lived asked me to help out out for a couple of hours on Sunday mornings, when there was a rush when the local Catholic Church 'let out'. Mainly I was taking payment of paper delivery bills, but can remember also weighing out snuff.
My Mother worked as the Clerk in a branch of chain of furniture shops, and when I was saving up to get married (some years later), got me a job there as her Saturday assistant - as it was a very busy day with people coming in to pay installments on their HP.

I had my first Saaturday job working in a baker's shop selling fresh bread (baked in the rear of the shop) and cream cakes were the speciality. It has put me off cream cakes for life! Also doughnuts - I never buy them

I had a Saturday job in a café where I washed dishes/cleared tables/cleaned the floors and cooked bacon/sausage/egg sandwiches etc.
I started at 8am and finished at 6pm.
I was 14 at the time in 1974 and loved every minute of it.
It was hard work for sure.but when I got paid it was worth it.
I was paid £1-50p and had a free lunch.
I don`t remember being given a tip tbh.