how did you spend your teenage years

pably15

It was nice to hear what you all did in your teens, I loved the 60's, my friends and I were out most nights, when I was 18...age for drinking, I got a weekend job in a bar...£ 1 for working 3 hours friday night and £1.50 for a saturday night...then when my shift finished on a saturday night I was off up to the friday night dance,,,10 pm till 2 am...great memories

I should have said when my shift finished on a Friday night not saturday,,

CariadAgain

Thinking back re the way I had several part-time jobs in a row in my latter days in school - and thinking "I don't recall any boys being assistants in Woolworths. I don't remember any boys doing any part-time jobs basically - other than being a "newspaper person" (always called "newspaper boy" then - and that fact has just struck me too...why wasnt it "newspaper person"?).

When I worked in that hotel of my friends parents and did realise I was being paid less than the boys and that that was wrong - I was washing-up and doing general housework (and getting health problems with my hands from doing it) and they were being waiters and not getting any health problems from doing that.

What jobs were boys doing - or werent they (apart from those newspaper deliveries)? Again - my memory doesn't tell me - but I don't think my younger brother ever did any part-time jobs (though he would have left school at 16 - rather than my 18 years old that I left at).

My ex-husband was peeling potatoes in a chip shop. My husband was assisting a wedding photographer on Saturday's. All Good until photographer double booked and DH was suddenly the 16 year old photographer at someone's wedding. Apparently they were happy but I think it was a very stressful day for him.

pably15

I left school 1960, was glad to leave , my friend and I went looking for a job we both got employed in a lemonade factory
weekends were spent at our local community centre dancing.
our first wages...in a little brown envelope £2. 7/6p
I handed my mum my wages, she kept £2....I got 7/6 pocket money...how times have changed

My virtually non-existent memory of my earlier life doesnt tell me the figures - but I do remember when I started work proper after leaving school that my mother demanded a rather "substantial" amount from my salary to cover "board and lodge" and I have long thought it was probably/almost certainly more than the extra food/fuel/etc I was using.

It was a very mixed blessing when my father told me years subsequently that "When you handed over money for board and lodge your mother kept it all - but when your (younger) brother did she put it all into a savings account for him and gave it all back to him when he got married" !!!!!!!!!

So she kept mine and didnt touch his. The mixed blessing was that I then had proof she was treating him as her favourite. Add that he was buying his first house with someone else (his wife-to-be) and I was having to buy mine on my own - but he got help I didn't.

I guess my father was starting to prime me maybe for what he said to me some years later of "Your mother will try and turn you into a carer for her later in her life - don't do it - as she'll drive you mad". So that and the fact we'd both had help doing work on our first house - but he'd also had LOADS of looking after his young children several days a week and his "board and lodge" given back to him by her = he was the obvious one to fulfil the "carer" role when it did indeed come to it years later - as he "owed" way way more than I did, as well as being her favourite.

1970s: As a younger teen I enjoyed visiting Kensington High street including Biba and the market with friends or the newly opened Mc Donald’s. We had occasional sleepovers at each others houses, but few parties. The blistering summer of ‘76 after Olevels was definitely memorable as was the school being closed for a meningitis outbreak. After Alevels I had a holiday job with Marks and Spencer which I returned to each December for the Christmas period when my university term ended. I did occasional babysitting for neighbours during my teens too and stocked up with childcare books from the library before the first session when the mother left her one year old with me for the whole day! I considered her very reckless…

tanith

1963 left school got a job at C&A Marble Arch my wages were £4.10sh after work Saturdays and at lunch times my friend and I would run up Oxford St to the HMV record shop and listen to the latest records in the little booths, then on the way back we would try all the posh perfumes in Selfridges god knows what we smelled like after trying on loads we couldn’t afford most of them.

Left school same year as you also got job at C&A Marble Arch
office work wondering if we ever met 🤣
Only difference used to go to Wallis in Oxford St to spend too much money
Didn’t last long in the job at C&A