Pocket Money

When I was 13 I worked on an as or when basis in the BathingPool cafe. No training, was expected to serve customers and wash up. I remember someone asking me for coffe, I just said i didn t know how to make it, will they have tea? I didn't last long there.
When I was 15 I had a Saturday job in a fruiter/ florist. quite enjoyed it.

Many year later I had a Saturday job demonstrating sewing machines in a department store - again no formal training, but I loved it and got good discounts on the machines I sold. Eventually I bought one myself!!

I did home help for a short term and it was only 2 hours per week - I had little commitment so left it.

Potato picking - back breaking! Fish and chip shop - hated smelling of chips and the vinegar smell made my nose sore, they did get me a taxi home when I did the late shifts though.

Things were different then Grandma70s. These kids are having to find around £50.000 to pay off student debts. They HAVE to work. Some receive grants but they don’t go very far.
Hard up parents can’t help that much, if at all.
I’d like to see some of these ‘high ranking’ professionals
Helping the students financially as the Americans do, by awarding grants and the like.

I did a paper round 6 mornings a week from aged 13. As a student demonstrator at age 14-16, for my dance teacher, this involved standing at the front of class so the younger pupils could copy, this paid for my ballet and tap classes. At age 16 I became a Student Assistant, I would take small groups of children who may be struggling with a particular step or who needed extra practice for an exam, for this I was paid on top of my free classes. Whist at Teacher Training College I worked during holidays, a variety of jobs.

Paper round, potato picking and then working on Saturdays and during school holidays at Woollies which I loved because I was often on the record counter then I worked in the prescription pricing bureau until I went at 17 1/2 to train as a nurse in Scotland

Chardy

Wow, you've raked up some memories. So right.

It's been lovely to read about the wide variety of jobs and from a very young age for some of you.

Money being earned to help the family, save for a holiday or first car, help with needs for studying. For many, it has helped them gain confidence.

I think part time work for teens adds life experience and gives them some independence. My family all worked as teens, mostly picking fruit, babysitting and my older sister and I worked at a local newspaper printing plant. She ended up meeting her future husband there.

My teens all worked from about 14 onwards. Clearing tables at restaurants for my daughter, and the boys worked at a fish processing plant, and helped unload boats as they came in with their catch. One worked at a grocery store.

It teaches kids how to interact with other adults, time management, and some freedom with money management.
On the other hand, my sister did not believe in having children still students work. I see their kids as being very socially shy and not very mature for their ages. I think it would have been good for them.

Living in the countryside we were expected from a young age to pick fruit in summer holidays, pick tatties in the ‘tattie holidays’ and as I got older and became a student I started waitressing at weekends in a local hotel, then there was a weekend job in the bingo hall. At some point I planted trees in a local nursery, worked holidays in a fruit/veg canning factory and a lemonade factory. I even did 2 weeks holiday relief in a fish shop. One Christmas I remember a lovely job in a China shop. Fast forward to being a mum to 2 primary age children and I got a part time job in a local bakers/cafe which was ideal hours at 10-2. Fitted around school times. Looking back I did a lot! We weren’t from a wealthy family and in those days where we lived it was just expected that kids did those jobs. Look nowadays how the soft fruit farmers are losing crops because they can’t get pickers. Sad. My own daughter also worked whilst studying, first as a silver service waitress in a big hotel, then later worked in a supermarket but eventually gave that up as she needed the study time.

Saturday jobs Florist, Chelsea Girl, M&S
Holiday jobs Accounts at Allders, Hospital cleaner, Barmaid, Christmas post
Teaching full-time but saving for deposit on a house Factory work one summer, more bar work

Wow, you've raked up some memories

Son worked coaching Saturday tennis for several years, shelf stacking
Daughter did cleaning after school, a bit of tutoring

Worked at 13 in a school uniform shop, then moved to Boots, where I spent all my wages on make-up!! DD worked as school cleaner at 6th form, then silver service waitressing.

I was a stay at home mum until my youngest was 10 . I then got a part time job cleaning in our local hospital. I did that for two years and then got a job in the same hospital as an auxiliary nurse .
2 and a half years later I started as student nurse at 36 years old and qualified before I was 40 . I then worked full time .

My children all worked through from 14 (in those days) One at Tesco nights and weekends, one at a motor cycle dealers and one cleaning caravans 5 of my 7 grandkids have worked from 16 one in a coffee shop 2 in MacDs one in a pound shop and one cleaning in a hotel (one other became an apprentice and the other isnt 16 yet)
The ones that went to Uni have all kept themselves too

I worked at 14 picking potatoes then Saturdays in M and S I also started off working in a coffee bar but being very shy and lacking in self confidence in those days I only lasted a day at that one, the boss put the fear of hell into me
Working to help out is extremely good for kids I swear my son has the very good career he’s has today though his work with mechanics when he was 13/14 through to 16 when he got a proper job

I was working full time, in a hospital, from the age of 16.

My son, aged thirteen, demanded his own television; we said no. So as soon as he was able he took a newspaper delivery round and saved his earnings scrupulously, plus birthday and Christmas money and washing up at the local pub in the holidays, until he saved enough to buy one, which took a couple of years, I think.
My daughter waitressed at the local yacht club from when she was sixteen, which left her with an intense dislike of 'yachties.' At University she had a job at the local off-licence.

Sorry, pressed enter by mistake. I resented having to work (unpaid) in family business whilst at school and during college holidays.

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I didn't do part time work until I retired aged 63. I left school on a Thursday, went to the job centre on Friday, had a job interview on Saturday morning and started full time on Monday morning. I had a break when my 2 girls were little. When they were both at school I worked 36 hours a week in a Nursing home. When I retired at 63 I continued to do bank work. When I moved house aged 65 I worked part time for the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service until I retired finally aged 68..I never had a Saturday job ever.

My first job whilst still at school, but during school holidays was picking strawberries, we were paid by the punnet and could eat as much as we liked. After that and still at school came babysitting regularly every Friday evening whilst their mum worked late in her salon.once I left school and working full time As an accountant apprentice I had 3 other jobs all at the same time. 2 nights a week at the local park/entertainment venue, selling tickets, Saturday all day in a bakery, Sunday morning as a chambermaid at the local hotel. I still had time for fun and met so many people during that time. Lovely days.

At 14, I began babysitting and also had a Saturday job at Timothy Whites which I enjoyed, especially in the weeks leading up to Christmas because we sold interesting items for presents. The shop backed on to caves where bulky stock (e.g. dustbins) was stored which I didn't enjoy entering!
After TW closed, I worked at Home Counties Dairies selling groceries, cream cakes, hot pies and sausage rolls. This was less appealing, partly due to aggrieved customers accusing me of selling them stale cakes during the week when I would have been in school!!
Other jobs when I was a student included delivering Christmas parcels for Royal Mail and working for a large insurance company with other students, which provided free lunches and snacks which were excellent! Happy days!

I've cleaned at a pub, office, distribution centre and a school which can be jolly hard work - or not - depending on the habits of the workers.

Part time as a typist for a lawyer who expected me to complete an almost full time work load with the worst typewriter I have ever grappled with.

The most stressful was an advertising agency which had a high turnover of staff due to mismanagement.

DWP work mostly, admin officer then adjudicating officer. Topped that up with various part time/weekend gigs: telephone banking, insurance sales, retail work in a toy shop, catalogue/newspaper modelling, promotions model work, Christmas elf, dog sitter, cook in a cafe, painting and decorating. I could and did turn my hand to most stuff but I wouldn’t do debt collection or lingerie/swimwear work.

Back in the late 90's, my husband worked during the day, whilst I looked after the house and my son, daughter and grandson, we would all have dinner at around 6pm, then I'd get the two youngest to bed, before going to work.

I cleaned at a factory twice a week, sorted the wages once a week and updated the accounts, worked at a petrol station for two nights, and often stuffed another shift in at the weekend.

As far as work ethic is concerned, all of our children worked part time whilst at school and have worked full time since finishing school / uni. Our oldest daughter maintains that the worst job she ever had was in a factory, gutting chickens!

Not Sinday !!! Sunday

Likewise Gwyneth! Woolworths for me, 2 hours on Friday after school and all day Saturday. My very strict form teacher didn't like girls working in Woolies, so my Dad (bless him) went to see her and so long as I did not have my uniform on for the Friday evening shift, all was well! I also did strawberry picking between school and college and college and my first full time job in an accountancy firm as one of the partners' secretary. My son did a weekend paper round (I wouldn't let him do one during the school week). The other lads didn't want to get up early on Sundays, so he ended up doing all the Sinday deliveries, which was great when he fractured his ankle and I then had to drive around with him sitting in the car with his leg up, sorting the papers and instructing me where to take each newspaper, along with a Christmas card from him - a not so subtle hint that he would appreciate a Christmas box! But ... he saved all this money and his birthday and Xmas gift money and put himself through his driving test. He's still very "careful" with his money!!

Another teenage babysitter here. When l was first married and living in a new area, l had a part-time job in BHS while l was establishing my music teaching practice.