Saturday Jobs

Had a fabulous Baby sitting round, while doing my Homework. It was easy money very rarely did the little ones wake up.
But on Friday Nights after school until 8, and Saturday's 9.30 - 5 pm I had a Shop job in Waitrose, working on tills or stacking shelves.
I really did quit well.

Wow Marydoll - me too - the
Hosiery counter in the Co-op. It was a steep learning curve and I went onto toys nearer Christmas - children came in with their pocket money and bought a couple of Brittain’s farm animals.
I had a daytime summer holiday job at a local professional photographer’s studio too.
DD1 worked at House of Fraser, weekends and Bank Holidays when she was at school and DD2 was taken on by M&S while at Uni and kept on too.

I babysat for our neighbour who played the violin in a big orchestra. I had to go early and feed and bath the children and then wait till they came home. Her husband went with her on Saturday nights because they always had a get together on after the performances.

Quite a few of the patients who weren't dangerous, some suffering from wartime shell shock I was told, came out and about at the weekends.

That reminds me of Bill Bryson's description of Virginia Water 😁

I had a job in Fine Fare as a cashier plus called on to do other stuff like weighing fruit and veg or working on Deli Counter on Thursday evenings and all day on Saturdays.

I had a Saurday job from about 14, serving and stacking shelves in a small grocery shop up the road from my house. Sometimes I was allowed to cut the cheeses which were under a glass dome with the wire cutter and wrap it in a piece in greaseproof paper also weigh and package bacon. Best of all ringing the shopping up on the till. I had to be able to do some mental arithmetic working out the correct change. The manageress was there looking over my shoulder to make sure I was doing it correctly

I lived in a Surrey town that had a number of, what were previously known as mental homes, or asylums, now all closed. Quite a few of the patients who weren't dangerous, some suffering from wartime shell shock I was told, came out and about at the weekends. One such man came in to the shop every Saturday afternoon to buy a fruit cake, he had a lot of nervous tics. One of his rituals was to ask the manageress to go through the ingredients with him, she could have given a masterclass in the art of patience, she was very kind always giving him the time to give chapter and verse on that, he could tie her up for ages, in his desire to deconstruct the cake and its entire ingredients.

I saved up my earnings for a coveted pair of boots and Mary Quant make up.

I had jobs in Fine Fare, Laws supermarkets then in a cafe in Strathaven that catered for bus tours and finally in Jenners toy department before I started my nurse training. Most of my friends had Saturday/weekend jobs too. I also used to help my friend deliver papers as her paper round included tenements. My brother worked in a garage at weekends.

I did a newspaper round on 7 mornings a week. I balanced a huge bag of papers and magazines on my bicycle handlebars.
To this day I haven't been able to lie in bed beyond 5am! Old habits die hard!

My Saturday job was in Boots the chemist. The condoms were kept in the back in the pharmacy area and I was always embarrassed when asked for some!
I think I got about 19/6d but we also had a staff discount.

I worked in the village shop from 14 until 16 and loved it. Cutting cheese with a wire, slicing bacon on the machine and weighing out sweets into little paper bags were my favourite jobs. Half a crown a hour and the occasional squashed cake to take home!

I worked in a coffee bar then Saturday girl in M and S
My children all had Saturday jobs eldest filling shelves in Tesco son in a motorbike shop and youngest cleaning caravans Grandchildren all had Sat jobs including Costa, MacDs, cafes, paper rounds, hairdressers, burger van.
they tell me MacD was by far the best employers (for money, breaks and conditions)

My Saturday job, in the 50's, was working in an old fashioned ladies clothes shop, Shirleys! It was in Hounslow High Street, but I can't for the life of me remember how much I was paid, but I do remember all the pink directoire knickers, with elasticated legs 🫣

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.

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 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 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 an art gallery 9-5

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.

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

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,

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 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 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.

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 .....?

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