What is the best low paying job you have had?

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My paper round for me for £40 a month , great experience.

Working on a tourist boat in the summer. So much fun!

Never had a low paid good job.

Working in the Travellers' Fayre Buffet Bar in Southampton Station during the holidays. They'd never had a student work there before me and I've never worked so hard in my life! But learnt a lot and saw a quite a few famous people in their journeys!

Fare

Film extra, got to work with Kate Winslet, David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston and James Nesbitt all on the same day!

Serving in fish and chip shop as got to take away what was not eaten at the end of the night.

Bar job in the local pub. Great days.

Or for a spell I worked in the working men’s club but I only did Wednesday nights for the line dancing class and Sunday for the bowls game. Always worked with the same lovely old guy who would have a cup of tea and a penguin biscuit ready for me when I arrived, Wednesdays the ladies only ever wanted cordial and water halfway through the class and Sundays were quiet. I got £15 a shift cash in hand.

Barmaid in a private club. Some stuck-up knobheads but most members were lovely and the tips were fab.

Temporary Christmas staff at Marks and Spencer. Minimum wage but there was a staff shop upstairs where everything that was past its sell by date but not its eat by date was sold to staff at a massive reduction. Food obviously, but also pot plants and other perishable gifts. Made a massive difference to what we could afford over Christmas that year.

Foster parent, when I started in 2019 I was on 22p an hour, now I am approved for babies who have complex needs (including withdrawing babies) I earn 89p an hour.

Ice cream seller. It was basically drive the van to a beauty spot, park up, put the radio on and read my book and serve a customer every five minutes. It even paid a bit more than minimum wage!

Crewing on yachts! Paid very little but I had the most amazing adventures sailing around the Baltic and Mediterranean.

@bloodywhitecat I bet that is such a hard but satisfying job.

I would love to be a foster carer and did lots of youth work with children in foster care.

Cloakroom attendant in a night club.
Watch everyone walk in all sober. Watch them all walk out pissed as a fart.
Listen to some good tunes.
Chat to some drunks.
Have a couple of drinks yourself.
In summer it's a super easy job.

Oh I was a Saturday girl at Dunelm when I was 15-17 too, on the fabrics side so measuring out fabric, calculating how much would be needed to make curtains/duvet covers etc and lugging about bolts of fabric.

It was great fun, most of the staff were young so we'd have a laugh all day then go out for McD's after. £2.20 an hour and got paid cash in one of those little brown envelopes.

Used to have the odd random day like when a whole load of nuns came in looking at the cheap sheeting and wanting enough to make hundred of bed sets up. Felt like my arms would fall off that day from measuring out and lugging bolts from place to place.

Waitressing wins absolutely hands down, partly because it wasn't that low paid once I factored in the tips. Packing geese in a freezer warehouse for Christmas deliveries that I knew would never get delivered in time was definitely the worst.

Data entry temp. Nice people to work with, no stress to take home.

School librarian. Bloody love it, but I can only afford to do it now because we paid off our mortgage while I was doing jobs I liked a lot less.

Working in a pharmacy/chemist shop. Started on £1 an hour, which helped explain why the owner was driving around in a Mercedes.

Library assistant as a teen. Was really relaxed.

Working evenings in Tesco. It was always quiet and most people working were the same age so it was a very relaxed atmosphere. They were a really good company to work for

I was cash office staff at WH Smith in Kingston bentall centre while I was at sixth form in the 90s. I spent all sunday counting 100k's of cash whilst eating Millie's cookies in my bullet proof office, taking calls from weekend staff calling in sick trying to pretend they didn't have hangovers, and every time I left the office to bring tills cash or change the boxes I had security guard protection. I loved it! Minimum wage. I only gave it up as I moved away for uni.

When I was 16 I got a job organizing the paperwork for a salesman who had thrown his papers in a pile for the last 10 years. This was before everything was computerized. He didn’t care when I worked so it fit perfectly with my busy school and extracurricular schedule. I just sorted papers and listened to the radio. Eventually I got him organized and then I just kept it running until I left for university.

I've loved every low paid job I've ever had: shop work, chambermaiding, meat packing, driving, bar work, you name it.

I've loathed every well paid professional job I've ever had. Tedious, pointless, stressful bullshit jobs, every single one, even the current one which pays £££.

The world of work is seriously fucked up.