What was your first Saturday job?

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I was just reading a thread on items people still use from shops no longer around and one of the posters mentioned shoes from Dolcis.
I worked there in the 90s when I was 16 and earned £2.09 per hour!
It was an absolute hoot and everyone there was of a similar age. We also had a couple of older kids who were supervisors and allowed to work the till. I personally didn’t reach those heady heights, but definitely would have liked to!

I worked at Chelsea Girl, then River Island, when they rebranded. Saturday all day, and Thursday late night opening. It was great fun, I loved working with the clothes. River island stuff used to be good quality, different to the rest of the high street.

I was 13 in 1979 and worked as a cleaner in a holiday camp. We got £5 for working 5 hours and were allowed to have a free cooked lunch. Also had a free bus to pick us up.

£2.40 an hour in my locally bakery for 4 hours a week. Got to take leftover bread and cakes home at the end of the day otherwise they'd go to the pig man! Bonus!

When I was 14 I delivered a weekly paper so would have about 400 papers dropped off at the beginning of the week, stuff them with all the leaflets and free samples then deliver them over the next couple of days. I also worked at a fruit farm during the summer holidays and got 30p per punnet of strawberries I picked.

When I was 15 I had a Saturday job at Dunelm in the fabric section earning 2.20p an hour.

I worked on Redman's grocery stall on Oldham market on Saturdays in 1975. I was 15. My mum thought it would be better than doing 13 paper rounds a week. I hated it and went back to the paper round.
Whenever I smell bleach now it reminds me of the end of day floor and bin cleaning on that stall.

I worked for spud u like. No I did not like.

McDonald's when I was 16. Great fun, ours was ran really well we had loads of staff events.

In 1979 I was 17 and I had a Saturday job at John Lewis in Oxford St. At that time it closed at 1 o’clock on Saturday afternoon! I absolutely loved it there . I
also worked there in school holidays too. I think my wages were £5 for that Saturday .When I left my section gave me a lovely pen with my name engraved on it. Happy times.

Hillards, I was paid about £12 for a full day, 1983.

Saxone shoe shop for £1.58 per hour in 1990

A local bakery. 8 hours on a Saturday and earned £16. This was back in 1994 and I was bloody loaded!!!

Sunday job at the pub my nan was the chef at. Washing pots and clearing tables. I got £10 a shift 😂

My first ever job was grape picking. It was 50p a crate and I earned £10 over two days of hard work.

Saturday in Superdrug aged 15- I got £17 ( cash at the end of the day in a little brown envelope) for 8.30-6pm in 1986/7.

Around 1970-1, Littlewoods in Portsmouth. It was absolutely horrible apart from the other Saturday workers and a couple of the full timers.

Left and worked in a newsagent near to home. That was much nicer. Left just before getting my first full time job when I finished school.

Never had one but I volunteered at care home

Picking tomatoes on a local farm. We got paid 20p for each basket (early 90s). On a good day you could make £2 per hour.

It was tough work in the summer as we were in a giant greenhouse which was usually 30-35°C.

In a supermarket shelf stacking in the middle 80s. Can't remember how much but it was between £8 and £11 per day.

I started in Bentalls Kingston when 15 in 1965. I liked it but was always late for work and got told off. The wages were poor

Woolworths, over 50 years ago, in a busy seaside resort. There were lots of Saturday and holiday girls and we had some good times. I’ve no idea what we earned but do remember the free cooked two course lunch from the staff canteen on the top floor. Though of course it wasn’t quite to the standard of the M & S canteen when I worked there a few years later. 😊

I did do one day potato picking for some pocket money when I was 8 or 9, which was horrendous. Some poor kids had to do it for weeks in the holidays to supplement the family income.

British Home Stores, on the makeup counter but it only lasted September until after the Christmas period, pity I loved it.

I worked in the restaurant ( cooking, not waitressing) in Owen Owen's in North Finchley in 1980/81. It was wonderful.
So many of us had such a great time together.
I met my friend Maureen there who was funny and gorgeous. We went to David Bowie ( Serious Moonlight Tour) in Milton Keynes and then on holiday to Amsterdam.
They were really happy times.
I still think of Maureen, she made my life better.
Maureen, if you're out there, thanks for such fun and friendship, Old Pal. X

£1 per hour at a local supermarket.

I served in the fruit and veg section, bagging potatoes and what not.

I still remember getting my first £5 for Saturday 8-1

This was 1989.

I never had a Saturday or holiday job. I might have liked one but think my mother would have vetoed the idea (she was very controlling). My late husband worked for an off licence and, when he was a sixth former, even drove their van doing deliveries once he was past seventeen and passed his driving test. My son worked in a music shop for years from age fourteen, on Saturdays and during the holidays; he loved it.

At 15 I worked Friday evening and Saturday washing hair at the local hairdressers. £1.25 in total plus tips. After 2 years moved to working on Saturdays in Lilley and Skinner in Oxford street. £3.50 for the day. This was back in the late 70’s.