paperounds & pay...or any other jobs for a 13yo?

[Tigi]

I phoned up to enquire about one for ds13- it's a free weekly paper. It is 200 papers and pays £4.80 week.
Is this good, seems a long way to walk for £4.80!
What else could he do if 13?

not bad for one evening which would take, what? a couple of hours?

ds1 does a paper round 7 days a week, gets up at 6.30 every morning and gets £15.00 per week, takes him about an hour each day so that works out at roughly £2.00 an hour.

Nothing else he can do at that age.

Paper rounds pay v well round here - DS2's takes less than an hour, Mon-Sat (well Thu/Sat take a bit longer due to local paper/fat weekend editions) and he gets £22 - about £4 an hour.

It's along one long road, houses on one side, and then round an estate, both sides, and up and down 2 cul de sacs. I drove round earlier, and it seems a long way.... too far to carry 200 papers in one go - poor child will have a bad back!
They drop the papers to my house. Need to phone the chap back tomorrow.
i loved my paper round - used to readt them as i walked, but it was only one road, so no big deal..........

dd1 does a free paper one evening a week. I say dd1 but dp ends up doing half of it as she's freaked out by an old man who lives in one of the houses .

She gets £9.00 for 180 papers, more if she gets leaflets to insert.

Another paper we do when the regular person is on holiday (same houses) pays £5.00. Not sure why this is so much lower but this paper often has lots of leaflets so probably isn't so badly paid in the long run.

£9.00 an hour is more than I get but dd1 moans that it's slave labour ! Oh, and she gets holiday pay! Every three months she gets a double pay packet for doing nothing!