What was your Saturday job as a teen?

[SPARKLER1]

Was thinking about mine earlier. I used to work in a greengrocers and remember it being a terrible job. Freezing bloody cold in the winter and I was frightened to death in the summer with all the wasps swarming around all the fruit. They had an old till where you had to hold down all the buttons together and a wooden box would fly out the bottom. The amount of times I used to slam my fingers in the till. Owwwww! Then moved onto a job in a newsagents - much more comfortable there.

I'm amazed at you guys remembering how much you got payed and the hours you worked. My memory must be worse than I thought.

So are you impressed with the romantic setting dh and I had for our "special moment"? We are still as romantic as ever 17 years later.

i worke in miss selfridge and as a hostess in a pizza place

my very first was in a cafe and it was completely yuk and they took the mickey. I then got a job packing at a catalogue place - its a running joke with dh that I'm a 'professional' packer (shopping/holidays) how sad am I?

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My first job was delivering the Peak Advertiser. I threw them in a skip and got the sack. Then a cafe - incredibly hard work (would be illegal now) did a 12-hour shift often only getting a break 8 hours into it but got paid shed-loads. By a 14 year olds standards anyway. I had 30-odd quid a week all mine - that was a lot of disposable income for a teenager. Then a restaurant. Then a pub. Then, throughout university I worked in old people's homes, which I enjoyed immensely.

I worked in a secondhand shop. Lots of old biddies and young trendy students. Used to get our regular customers bringing us in cakes etc.

Not as well paid as some of my friends' jobs, but a lot more relaxed and fun.

first saturday job-in a little clothes shop which i actually hated, only got about 1.50 an hour abd had to be there at 8am, i think it's why i still hate clothes shopping
i went with my friend to hand in her application form to mcdonalds and ended up with a job there myself but i didn't care about the horrible brown uniform and the smell as i now got paid 2.00 an hour and the chance to work overtime...........sad thing is i've only recently resigned forever from mcdonalds......and it's such a liberating feeling

When I was 13 I worked in a fruit and veg shop, bloody hard work that was. Then I got a job in the sports centre in the cafe and that was much better as more sociable and more perks to the job (fit yougn life guards in shorts)...

I worked in Manfield the shoe shop. I was paid £30 monthly which I promptly spent on shoes, mind you in those days I would still have got about a £10.00 in change. Eventually I was the longest serving Saturday girl and got to work the till because I was trustworthy! Hated it when people paid by visa and you had to use that pull along thing and write the details in by hand and then phone up for authorisation - used to take ages!

WCL - fruit and veg shops are bloody hard work aren't they??

started at Local harveys at 16 I think !! cant remeber pay, bit dull , just remeber cutting nasty nets and clearing up shelves of static satin sheets!! ooh and hoovering to that mad yellow song every sat night. My next job was Dolcis on Oxford st and that was waaaaaaaaaaaaay better , made me streetwise, I loved my maccydees pancake brekky every sat morning!!! ooh got piad abot £3.25 to start and was best sales girl so got it up to about £4.50 ish when I left. Think I stayed in Oxfrd st for every job for years after, cant bare to go there now , does my head in !!

I worked as a phone girl at dominos pizza!!! Was on £2.50 an hour but soon got promoted to £3.00 cos boss fancied me! (thats my story and im sticking to it)

One of my mates used to work in a shoe shop. Don't know how she did it - all those disgusting, sweaty, smelly feet. Yeeeuuuuurgggggh! I was much happier getting my nails dirty in those King Edwards!

lol sparkler at wot u got up to at b&B !!

eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww never touched feet !! but IKWYM !! Think I may have had shoe nightmares though!!

Oh Sparkler you are not wrong there. We used to get this elderly gay man coming into to try on shoes (he was only size 6) and pretend he was trying them on for his wife. This was in the days of stilletoes and he had to try on the highest pair

Oh no Melsy - it didn't happen in B&B. It happened at neighbours house while babysitting for her 2 ds's.

PMSL Fimbo. Ah well at least it brightened up your day.

Oh no Sparkler!!!

Now you've got me reminiscing - I used to work in a local hairdressers, then a small cheapie "fashion" store, in which they would constantly play a terrible 80's song on a loop (which isn't surprising as it was the 80s!) ... I can remember it now, Starsound, singing "Stars on 45 (the Beatles Medley)", and now I can't get it out of my head!

oopp sorry sparkler shoudnt skim read, just lifting my spirits b4 bed and v tired soz.

It is bringing back memorys this.

I used to deliver some sort of fortnightly booklet on health, which raised money for people with cancer and their families. The pay was pretty good, got between £12 and £25 a time - depending on who had ordered the booklet. This was in the seventies, when I remember my mother doing the whole families shopping for around a tenner - I must have been rolling in it, even after splitting it with my little brother who used to help me. Can't remember what I spent it on though.

i was a checkout girl in a greengrocers

assembled plug extension leads for masterplug

did sundays in a pub

Weekly paper round 13-15- penny per paper. Then Woolies cafe, scraping plates and loading potwash. Then Woolies shop floor - special responsiblity for computer/games machines, selling ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Vectrex. I used to get £8.37 per day, 9am - 6pm.

That closed so I moved onto WHS aged 16. At 17 took a job in a late-night pub, glass collecting on Friday nights and taking membership money on Sundays. Worked all school holidays either in my shop jobs or doing nanny-type work for mum's friend.