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

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Franbern Sat 09-Oct-21 09:30:35

Following on from the pocket money thread, I thought it would be interesting to find out if Gnetters worked part-time whilst still at school - back in our 'old days'!!??

Also how much we got paid for that. Know it will differ widely as the age groups on here probably covers about forty plus decades.

So, I will start off - in 1954 (I was aged 13 ), my mother saw and advert and marched me down to the local High Street where there was a very upmarket glass and china shop looking for a Saturday girl. Mum lied that I was 14 years old - so I started work that day on the glass (lots of Venetian glass) department. Paid 15/- hours 9.00 amd to 5.30 pm (one hour for lunch). Stayed there for 18 months until I left school aged 15 years. When I worked there at Christmas all week (5 and a half days) I received £3.10s -an absolute fortune for me,!
A few months after starting there the small newspaper shop opposite where I lived asked if I would work there on Sunday mornings, only for a couple of hours during their very busy period (newpaper weekly accounts being paid, etc.) and for that couple of hours they paid me 10/-!!!!!
When I left school and started as a hairdressers apprentice I recceived just £2/- per week. My father insisted that I paid something towards my keep (10/- a week), but for that I did have full bed and board, etc.

Calendargirl Sat 09-Oct-21 18:19:44

Have posted this on another thread. Worked in a greengrocer’s, 1968-1969, Saturdays, 8.30-5.00. £1 for the day.

Cut up cheese which I liked doing and just general serving customers, filling up shelves. Hated having to go to the upstairs stock room for replenishments, could never find anything!
The Andrex loo rolls were kept on a really high shelf, you had to hook them down with a long pole, I enjoyed doing that.

Shinamae Sat 09-Oct-21 18:29:46

Must’ve been 1968/9 got a job in a chemist in Barnstaple which was a good hours drive from where I lived so I got a lift in with a boy who worked at the bank. Anyway it was £3.11 shillings a week and I didn’t last very long because some guy come in and asked for French letters and I shouted out the back “have we got any French letters?” and a very flustered senior assistant came out and shooed me out the back and dealt with the man. Woolworths was just up the road so lunchtime I went up there and got a job there!! (She had explained what they were and I was mortified ?)

MissAdventure Sat 09-Oct-21 18:31:07

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MamaCaz Sat 09-Oct-21 18:53:36

My first job was a paper round. It would have been maybe 1974, and I would have been 13 or 14.
I didn't do it for long. On Thursdays, when the TV guides were added to the round, I could barely lift the bag. There were no trolleys in those days. I don't remember being how much it paid, but not a lot.

I did a few babysitting jobs. In the mid 70s, I remember that one family paid me just 50p, no matter how late back they were. The next family paid me more, but at 16, I found an evening job in the kitchens of a restaurant, at 50p per hour, so dropped the baby sitting.

downtoearth Sat 09-Oct-21 19:08:20

First full time job,after babysitting ten bob a week,was Tinothy whites chemist counter,wasnt good enough to work on cosmetics with all the pretty girls.
Asked for condoms hmm
What are they for says I ,Mrs K where are the condoms.
In the happy boys drawer says Mrs K.
Well I soon learned,and all the different names for them

downtoearth Sat 09-Oct-21 19:10:44

This was 1968

downtoearth Sat 09-Oct-21 19:18:13

First full time wages Where £4 .10.00d...took home £4.00.11d,
50 shillings to mum
15 shillings provident cheque for new glasses and a coat ,
75 shilligs bus fare and lunches

MissAdventure Sat 09-Oct-21 20:08:24

The happy boys drawer. smile