Part time work back in our day and how much did you get paid?

What an interesting idea for a thread. I'd have been useless in the glass department...I'm as clumsy as a camel and all my wages would have gone on breakages.

My first part time job aged 14 in 1978 was cleaning out the rabbit cages in a pet shop. It took all Saturday morning and I was paid 50p. I used to sing at weddings in the church choir in the afternoon and got 30p a wedding. On a good day I could make £1.10!! I did a paper round on Sunday morning with my brother to top up my wages.

When I left school I worked on a farm 5 days a week- I'd start at 7.30am and work until 6pm. I used to arrive, collect the cows from the field and do the milking alone all before 9.30am....I was 17!!! I was given breakfast and lunch and paid £23 a week. I used to give my dad £5 to use his car and petrol and my mum £7 for keep. I felt rich and even saved up to buy myself a radio for company whilst doing the milking!!

I was the Saturday girl. In an indoor fruit and veg market, came home ladened with fruit and veg the owners want rid of.
My sister was the Saturday washer up in Betty's tea shop and came home with the left over cream buns
My mum was well pleased!

I started working at a hotel as a waitress when I was 14 in 1972, however I can't remember how much I earned. The very first thing I bought was an African violet plant for my mum. I worked every Saturday 12-12 and often Friday nights and Sundays 9-5 as well. I was really well looked after. All my meals were included and Vera the cook kept an eye on me. It was great earning my own money. I never paid board as my parents didn't expect me to. It was hard work and long hours and definitely kept me out of trouble! I moved to working in a small supermarket when I was 16 on a Saturday. I used to work during holidays too.

My first part time job was working in our local Post Office sorting the papers with the Post Master,I started at 6.30am and was 14 at the time after the paper deliveries went out I looked after the counter whilst the Post Master went upstairs for a quick breakfast I left at 8.15am to run home and get off to school for 9am I was paid 17s 6d a week and thought I was rich.

Saturday job in C&A. 14s 6d. A horrible job with awful supervisors.

Age 15 I worked during school holidays in a hotel washing up. Age 16 worked during school holidays in a factory making souvenirs for tourists - I could never really get the hang of it. Later in a department store. I always worked, always had money but can't remember what I was paid. It did me good. My two children, as teenagers, both worked. It did them good and they had their own money as I wasn't very well off.

I had a Saturday job working in a cafe doing the washing up. I can’t remember how much I got, but it was good experience.

I worked in the children’s library when I was 14 but they didn’t pay you until you were 15. However, you would not get a paid job unless you had done volunteering. At 15 in 1968 I was paid £1, going up to £1 2/6 if I worked in the adult section.

I picked potatoes at a local farm in the school holidays. When I was fourteen in 1971 I got a Saturday job at a hairdressers. It was ridiculous really because the money I earned just covered my lunch and bus fare. It was good experience though I moved to an apprenticeship closer to home. But that didn’t last the full course because I had painful swollen wrists and had to change jobs.
Now my hands are in a mess because of osteoarthritis and other conditions. It makes me wonder if that was the catalyst that started it.

Aged 17 I worked from Friday evening (straight after school-A levels ) until Sunday evening for the princely sum of £13.50

I've just said on the other thread that I earned ten shillings for 4 hours work in a pet shop on Saturday mornings when I was 13, in 1950. It was a fantastic little job and I loved it.
Nothing was packaged then and I used to cut up large slabs of dog meat, and weigh dog biscuits or chicken bran into brown paper bags, etc.
I kept that job until I left school at 15 and started full time work as a switchboard operator in a big company where I started at £2 per week. Sounds pathetic now, doesn't it, but I felt quite well off with my earnings. Even though mum always took half of whatever I earned.

Age 13 first job was fruit and vegetable shop. Paid 50 p. Then a cafe, back to the vegetable shop and a new wimpy bar opened opposite so got a job there. Ate first Hamburger.
Started full time work in London at 15. £4.50 gross per week. After train fare and housekeeping I was left with 50 p. So was no better off than when I was 13.

silverling48 my first job was in a fruit and veg shop too, Saturday job. It was in 1970, I was 14, can’t recall what I was paid. It was weighing everything into brown paper bags, serving and making up deliveries, it was cold too in the winter, frozen sprouts anyone? We used to drink Camp coffee, I liked it and some years after used to buy Nescore cofee as it had chicory in like Camp.
Concorde was taking her trial runs along the south coast and I remember seeing her on the way to work.

As I said on the pocket money thread I delivered papers from 13 and as a Saturday girl in Boots. I don’t remember how much I was paid but it gave me a bit of extra spending money.

After my exams at 16, my father found me a holiday job at Lyons in Hammersmith in the invoicing office. I was initially very cross but I had to do as I was told. It was tedious so I took pride in doing the best job I could. It was lovely to have the extra cash and I didn’t save any at all. Of that I’m sure.

I worked as a 15 Yr old on Friday nights and Saturday in Waitrose a New supermarket the first out side of London. I was paid more than my peers in other shops, but can't recall the rate now, stayed there until after my O levels and I had a "proper job" which I recall was not the same hourly rate my Saturday job a tad more.
Also while at school I had a regular round of Baby sitting job where I did my homework while keeping an ear out for little ones.
As a teenager I did quite well and my parents only took "rent" money off me after I started full time work which they saved and gave me back when I got married.

I remember cleaning a house on the farm where we lived, it housed students during the school holidays, i got 5 shillings for doing this. Then i did a few Sundays in the summer at a little tea shop and got paid 10 shillings plus i did occasionally get some tips, i loved that. My first proper job at 15 was working in a factory for Addis in the department that made thermos flasks. It was peace work and it was a 40hr job with overtime 4 days a week and Saturday mornings. I can remember taking home more than my dad did who was a farm worker. One week i took home 11pds 10shillings. My mum was gobsmacked when i showed her my wage packet.

Saturday and student jobs were one thing, but part-time working had huge disadvantages, the major one being that you couldn’t join an employer’s pension scheme, or join until you were 21, so I have quite a lot of working years which were not eligible. My resulting patchwork of contributions means that I am much less well off than I might have been, though I suppose not paying contributions had advantages at the time.

I had a Saturday job in a Co-op Department Store. I was on toys and can remember selling single Britain’s Farm animals to children for their pocket money - but can’t remember what I was paid. Sometimes I’d go on Hosiery - selling Aristoc stockings which I remember were quite expensive - 6s11d a pair seems to ring a bell.

When I was 15 I was a Saturday girl in a cake shop. The law meant I could only work 5 hours. I can’t remember how much I got paid but I do know as soon as I finished at 2pm I went straight into town to spend it at the likes of Chelsea Girl, Etam etc.
In the back there used to be a large tray with broken or damaged products you could eat on your break. If I fancied something that wasn’t on there something that I did like might accidentally get bashed so that it was ?
I used to go to work with orders from my parents and grandparents but even with discount I ended up spending more than I earned!
I loved this job and the company were very generous at Christmas with all staff being sent home with mince pies,chocolate log,pork pie, sausage rolls etc.

My first job on leaving school was as an office junior and I do remember my wages were £7.50 a week in 1974.

When I was 15 (1966) I got a Saturday job at the local newsagents - 9 to 5.30 with an hour for lunch, for which I was paid 15/-, later increased to £1. They sold sweets, tobacco, stationery, newspapers and magazines including some which were put away in brown paper to be collected.?. And I was allowed to help myself to some of the loose sweets in jars but not the expensive ones such as chocolate eclairs. I didn’t work there in school holidays, I got a variety of jobs at different places then. The excitement of a wage packet for a whole week’s wages! Though I don’t recall how much it was.

Worked as soon as it was legal (12?) doing milk or paper rounds then I had a job in the cash desk of an electrical company when I was 16. I went straight from school 1630 to 1800 weekdays and 0900 to 1800 on Saturdays. For that I was paid £1 &10 shillings. Deduction (tax?) was three shillings and four pence so I walked out with £1, 6 shillings & 8 pence every Friday. Fully retired at 74 so I reckon various chancellors had their pound of flesh out of me.

Did seasonal work, from age 11, picking blackcurrants, cutting spinach , picking spuds, along with sister and Mum and other ladies from our village. Then on to working in a cafe, til I changed that for sweet shop/ cafe. I cant remember how much I was paid, but remember you got paid per weight of blakcurrants. Can’t stand the things now.

I did paper rounds, worked in the Wimpy bar, and in various seaside cafes, including a burger stand, almost burning it down a few times.
I seem to remember £6 being paid for a long stint of washing up and waitressing in a fish and chip shop.

I worked as a silver service waitress in quite a posh restaurant whilst I was still at school and I honestly think my parents thought that could be my career until I married