how did you spend your teenage years

Started work pretty young - ie part-time jobs whilst still at school. Think one of my first must have been being a "Saturday girl" in Woolworths. I still wish I'd not bumped into someone I know whilst I was walking to Woolworths with the intention of asking if they had a position for me - as she promptly decided to copy me and we were both asking and she got given the cosmetic counter and I was given the crockery counter. Maybe I'd have been given the cosmetic counter - and just been selling things like a tube of mascara to someone....but the crockery counter meant people were doing things like buying a whole set of crockery sometimes and my maths needed to be up to that and it wasnt. I got sacked after 6 weeks.

Also had working in a friends parents hotel briefly (I do remember noting the boys got paid more per hour than us girls and I knew that was wrong even at that age. Also when we all stopped for a breakfast break her mother made it plain that free breakfast was really only for the boys!). Also worked in my parents friends bed and breakfast briefly. Babysitting also featured when I was an older teenager.

Thinks - I guess that makes it inaccurate that I refer to my worklife as having been 41.5 years long (ie 18.5 to 60). Would have been more like 43/44 years long...

From 14 to 16 I worked in the village shop on Saturdays and a few days during school holidays.
I spent the money on records, which I bought from an independent record shop in Eton, and the rest going to gigs.
A habit which has lasted a lifetime.

At boarding school until 18. I then went to university, where I made up for lost time.

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.