Saturday Jobs

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Mine was as a Saturday girl at Chelsea girl....started at 16 ....in my last year at high school

I worked in a bakery when I was 14 , my job was to the fill the eclairs with cream then cover them with chocolate, the owners also let me serve at the counter occasionally, I felt so grown up.

Mine was in Woollies in the early 60s. I was lucky in that I also worked during holiday periods and helped with stock taking on a Sunday - double pay.

I learned the value of money very quickly. In my first year my Saturday pay enabled me to buy one 68 single record. It three Saturdays to buy an LP 29/11d.

I worked at a fish counter in a big market with my friend, we stank of fish , and you would be peeling scales off our nails all evening , even after a bath. At that time I didn't even like fish. 😂 . I also done a paper round for a few weeks one summer, covering a friend and done the odd shift in a cafe which was owned by my father's mate.

There are Saturday girls at the hairdressers I go to.

I was on the haberdashery counter in Woolworths.
All of the calculations regarding lengths of ribbon etc were done in the head.
My talents in mental arithmetic has impressed generations of children!

I worked in a hairdressers for a short time. Spent all day brushing hair off the floor. I think I got about 50p (10s) for the day 😄

I worked on a market veg stall. My sister
worked in a cafe. We both brought home leftovers on the saturday night. My Mum was well pleased.

I worked on a cheese stall on the inside market, had to learn how to cut and weigh different cheeses.
Was always given a small piece of cheese as well as my wages for Saturday which my old mum would make Welsh rarebit with.

C&A. Me and my friend Diane. I go 14 shillings and free food in the canteen. The job was horrible though. Horrible supervisors.

Saturday, or rather weekend, jobs around here, newspaper delivery, garden centres, stables and chippy to name a few?

Lord I had soooo many jobs as a child and teenager.....
Saturday paper round ; worked in a small private kennels specialising in long-haired daschunds but also took cats( learned difficult to groom a Manx cat at the business end!);
at my best friend's grocery shop ( free lunch ; loads of fun; wages; stayed Saturday night to enable social life etc). After "A" levels I worked at a local pub ;Pontins Holiday camp then Fruit picking in Kent.....
Apart from the best friend's grocers shop and paper round I simply cannot remember HOW I got any of these jobs..........Makes you think .....?

I had a Saturday job in a restaurant of a lovely department store and I earned £3 for each session! I did enjoy it and made good friends.

I never had a Saturday job, but DGD has. She has been a Saturday waitress in a local cafe. After a year regular Saturday's have become a problem because of college commitments so she has become the same cafe's zero-hours emergency waitress, doing odd shifts as and when.

I started work as a waitress at a local hotel when I was 14. Twelve hour shifts on a Saturday so 12-12. All meals were included and I was well looked after by the cook. It gradually increased to a Friday night 5-11, all day Saturday 12-12 and a Sunday 12-5 or 12-9. It certainly kept me out of trouble! By 16, I was fed up with the hours and worked in the local supermarket on a Saturday and all the school holidays.

I had a Saturday job in a greengrocers/ grocer’s shop.

8.30-5.

Was paid £1 for the day, and we were pretty busy.

If I went in the week in school holidays, it was 15 shillings, as it ‘wasn’t so busy’.

They also had a bakery next door, and we were given a free lunch, a ham roll or similar plus a fresh cream cake, which was a bonus,

Baby sitting on a Saturday night- does that count? No one goes out on Saturday nights any more, not how they used to.

I started in the large, local Co-op dept. store at fourteen. I got 15/- for the day. It was my dream job, make up, leather gloves and handbags in the department. They also sold every colour and type of stockings and tights, you could imagine. Does anyone remember Berkshire, American Cream Soda tights? I lusted after them.
I was then promoted to the boutique, which sold Mary Quant make up. My parents did not approve of me wearing make up, but I would try out the testers and wipe the make up off before I went home.
My favourite dept, was the shoe dept. A whole floor of shoes, the shinier the bettter.
The worst dept. was the underwear dept. I had to go into the fitting room and help old ladies into those salmon pink foundation garments. Most had B.O. and I dreaded those encounters.
Eventually I was moved to the finance dept, ( a huge promotion) where the cash arrived from the various depts in tubes.

I worked in an art gallery 9-5

I worked in the cash desk of a then well known electrical chain. Took HP payments after school weekdays and all day Saturdays. Loved it.

I worked in Woolworths on the sweet counter and then Boots in the toy department which was next to where the records were sold so I loved seeing the lads coming in to listen to music and sometimes if I was lucky being chatted up😂😂

I had a newspaper round for about two years - I must have been about 12-13. Up at 5.30 to walk to the newsagents with my brother who also had a round. Then an hour and a half walking the round with a very heavy bag before home for a wash and school. On days when there were a lot of magazines with the paper had to do half the round then back to the newsagents to refill to complete the round.

I had a newspaper round aged 12 . I used to hate Fridays and the weekends because the magazines made the bag so heavy . And Fridays was the Croydon Advertiser. A local paper .
And then a Saturday job in a hairdressers at 14 . I was there for 2 years until I left school at 16. I’d sweep up hair , wash hair and wash the perming solution or hair colour out . Oh and I made zillions of cups of tea and coffee .
My dd had a Saturday job in Debenhams on handbags and accessories, this was during A levels . It made her a lot more confident dealing with the public .
My DS worked for stagecoach , a musical theatre franchise, during his A levels and then went to drama school .
I don’t know if Saturday jobs still exist, my nephew and niece are 16 and 18 and haven’t had sat jobs , neither did my other niece.