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

The happy boys drawer.

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

This was 1968

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
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

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.

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 ?)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.