What was your first Saturday job?

[FayKnights]

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!

Early 60s I worked in the Meadow grocery and dairy shop. I was 15, and got paid 15/- or 75p in today's money for a Saturday.

Woolworths!
At 15, me and a friend got Christmas temp jobs, but I got kept on so was there for almost 2 years - mostly on the record bar, I had a blast!
We could play what we wanted, it was very early nineties so a lot of rave was played, along with the happy Mondays, the farm etc
One weekend, several staff were sacked as they were caught stealing Nintendo Gameboys.

I really can't remember how much I got paid, I just remember getting the small brown wages envelope and feeling rich/grown up!

I never reached the heady heights of the sweet counter, much as I would have liked to. I spent most of the summer on haberdashery, with brief stints on beach toys and the delicatessen counter. I was demoted back to the buttons and zips because, being a giddy teenager, I couldn’t stop laughing when a Scottish customer asked if she could have “a wee poke” for her purchases.

Never thought about it before, I never had a Saturday job, might have been because I started full time work at almost 16 I guess.

I worked as a Saturday girl in WHSmiths. I got paid a guinea a day. (£1.10 in decimal money). I had to clock in and out and your wages were docked if you were late.

My first Saturday job (graduated from babysitting) at the grand age of 15 was in a shoe shop in London. I got the tube to work and felt v grown up 😎

I started in Bejam when I was 16, was there about 6 months before it became Iceland. Can't remember my wage, but it was less than £2 an hour in 1988.

First job i did at 13. It was stacking shelves for 2 hours a week on a fri 5-7! After that, i had a few Saturday jobs - cafe (Sat), Dolcis in Top Shop and regular babysitting. Then i worked in a variety of pubs as a student. Met my husband in one. The best 2 jobs were working at an Animation exhibition on Liverpools Albert Dock called "Animation World". I was college age. My brother was the manager. We had a great time and I became good mates with the girls from The Beatles Experience opposite. My brother then became a manager at Pleasure Island on the site of The garden festival. I worked on the bowling lanes. Such a great job, lovely colleagues /friends and and we had free use of the roller rink, the adult sized play frame and bowling!
Miss those days a bit and just working for fun money!

Can't remember how much I was paid for any of them!

I worked on a Saturday in Woolies on the record dept. From 1978 to 1980. Earned £5.60 for the day. Best wages in town.
Absolutely loved it. Played all the top 40 singles and anything else I fancied.
It was the time of pubs closing after lunch. Used to flirt outrageously with all the blokes that would then come in.
I spent most of the time laughing with Maureen the full time worker.

Sales assistant in Fortnum & Mason. Decades ago so no idea how much I was paid. Probably tuppence ha’penny an hour. Saw lots of famous people though.

Helping in an estate agents ( my mum’s). £1.00 per hour, working 9.00 till 12.00, earning the grand sum of £3.00.

HOWEVER, that isn't the main story!

My job was to do accompanied viewings to empty houses!

So…stranger would book an appointment, stranger would drive to the office, I would take the house keys and get into the strangers car. Stranger would drive us to the empty property for me to unlock it and go in and wait for them…then the stranger would drive me back….
At age 12!

2001, £3.65 an hour waitressing in a hotel, I absolutely loved it, stayed until I left for first graduate job 6 years later, such happy days 😊

Principles for Women. The shop. Loved it!! We had some concessions selling other clothes/shoes. Also a code to use on the phone if we suspected a shoplifter.

I do love a poke of chips from the chippy🤭

My first proper legal job was working the till in a supermarket at 15. But I worked for years before that (from 10 maybe?) doing pony rides at a riding stable and also doing weekend cleaning jobs with my mum (her 2nd job, she was an accountant in her real job).

One lady we cleaned for was world famous as having like one of the world’s largest collections of ceramic salt and pepper shakers and teapots. A lot of breakable stuff in that house. 😬😬

i hasn’t thought about some of these shops for a while! Loving the nostalgia.
i always seems to have loads more money back then too.
Very jealous of the Fortnums one!

Honestly, I wish someone had told me to save some of my earnings back then. Comparatively it was the 'richest' I've ever been. All of my money was fun money, at one point during A-Levels I was doing 25hrs a week in a call centre, earning just under £1000 a month, no rent, no bills, no tax, just splurging it all away in New Look, MarkOne, Miss Selfridge, HMV and down the pub.