What was your Saturday job as a teen?

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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 remember doing a paper-round once for a local newsagent. Delivered loads of papers all up and down really steep hills. Took me hours to do it. Got back to shop and newsagent paid me £1 . I remember my dad taking me back to the shop later in the morning and arguing with the manager, telling him how disgusting he thought it was that he made young children work that hard for pittance.

Papergirl from14-16.
Ice cream factory at 16 (got two boyfriends out of that one! Temporary workers though, both at uni, older men!!)
Care home at weekends. Really enjoyed it 10hr days for £2.00 an hour!
Cleaner in primark (for the money)
Then shelf stacker in Wilko's on the health and beauty section. Loved it!
Lastly worked as HCA on nurse bank.

By uni, worked on sats in a cool clothes shop.
Then joined agency to get more money as a poor nursing student!
There, my life story!

delivering the free local newspaper (1p per paper)
cleaning the windows on hire cruisers (99p p/h)
waitressing in a hotel restaurant
Waitressing in an italian restaurant
working in a shoe shop (posing as an expert clarke's childrens shoe fitter)

I remember it being a huge big deal when I got more than £1 p/h wages!

Oh, and i had so many jobs as I kept getting fired!

At 14, I worked in a private old people's home run by a witch . I was emptying comodes, washing old men & ladies and cooking dinners. The same dinner and pud every Saturday: Spag bol followed by home made bread and butter pudding. She used to go off to the hairdressers at 2pm every Saturday for an hour, leaving me alone with 5 old people. They were confined to their rooms on the basis that they were too immobile to get downstairs (despite the stairlift).

I worked from 8:30 to 5:30 and was paid the princely sum of £1.00 per hour.

galaxy - my first old people's home was also run by a witch. Looking back she was downright cruel to some of the residents - she was a little dictator and if I worked for now I would have reported her.

I started my working life young. Morning paper round, 6 days a week in frozen Aberdeen for £6.50 a week (It was 20 years ago), followed by stints in 2 shoe shops, then a dishwasher (then promoted to waitress!) in a local restaurant, tatty picking, hotel chambermaid, behind the counter in a baked potato place, babysitting, then a job in a video shop.
I had that work ethic drummed into me....

Paper round when i was 13 btw...

First paying job, as soon as I could drive, was in a doctor's office filling out insurance forms. I then graduated to shop assistant at a trendy clothing store. Afraid I really took advantage of the employee's discount, and spent most of my money on clothes!

Goodness, galaxy ? that sounds like exploitation. Not just you (which is bad enough) but the old people, too.

I worked as a volunteer on a geriatric ward ? making beds, taking meals round ? when I was about 15. I loved it, and was really disappointed when my parents wouldn't let me go to help out on Christmas day.

My first paid job was in the local library, stamping out books and putting them back on the shelves using the Dewy Decimal system (still remember that Biography was 921). Always lots of Mills & Boon! Then I gradutated to the local newspaper, where I sat on a phone waiting for the football results to come in. Can't remember how much I was paid (it was that long ago) but think it was something like £3.50 for the afternoon. Happy memories

washing up in a pub kitchen-god it was awful.

got £5 for 2 and a half hours!!!

Me and my friend used to work in a really quiet and therefore boring clothes shop (men's underwear, jumpers and socks) - why they needed two of us there I'll never know. We had a good game to while away the hours: the challenge was to put on as many items of stock as possible without customers noticing. As this was the era of baggy t-shirts and leggings you could wear a fairly hefty pair of Y's and get away with it!

Lots of babysitting too, which probably taught me (and paid me) more.

First paid job was babysitting for the woman over the road. Her dh worked away so she worked 2 nights a week in a pub for some adult company. Didn't get paid much but it was regular, could do my homework there, watch her telly, bring a friend with me, so it was great.
From 16 to 18 I worked in Boots. £2.20 an hour. (2nd best paid job round our way after M&S which also had a staff hairdressers and chiropodist!)

I was Stirling's first paper-girl (so I was told...) and apparently ran rings round the paper boys!

worked in a fruit and veg shop for £1.25 an hour and got the sack for being late one day, the boss and I did not get on (yet one of my school colleagues got £1.00 more a day than me, at the time it was a lot , 1986 £1.25 was a lot..

Another Superdrug girl here, loved it and I had the best paid job out of all my friends who all worked in Bath. Had a friend who worked in Wimpey just down the road, Littlewoods and M&S and we all used to meet up for lunch. Just worked Saturdays and more or less everyday of my holidays.

Doing oil changes and pumping "gas" in a petrol station.

had an after-school paper round as our local shop didn't let girls do the mornings. Apparently it was too dangerous then??!! Never understood that. Irony was, it meant I was then walking up on the downs to see to my pony in the dark AFTER doing my paper round!

Also had a saturday job in the Spar which I hated at first but grew to love it and was really sad when I eventually left.

Did a stint during the holidays as a print finisher (used to be called bookbinder) which I enjoyed as the work was always varied, but hated the constant paper cuts.

Had a really cushy 'job' dog-sitting for next door neighbours. They had two dogs which they didn't like to leave for too long as the young one (red setter-gorgeous)would wreck the place. All I had to do was take the dogs for a walk and then spend the evening watching videos (supplied) and eating chocolate (also supplied). Much less traumatic than babysitting!

worked in two cafes. first one i was terrified of the boss. one of the girls told me on my first day "even if you have to wipe the same worktop a thousand times...just dont look like youre not busy". i left! second one i got peed off with having one 15 min dinner break in a day when my friend got a 5 min cigarrette break every hour (well she was going out with the boss's son). when she fell out with the son she got sacked, came back and told me she had left and i was sacked. turned out not to be true but im glad she lied, it was a rubbish job!