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.

Groom/stable hand.

Loved being around the horses and in the fresh air, and the hard physical work was very therapeutic/satisfying.

Oh I misread sorry. Best not first.

Barmaid was the best one. Very sociable.

Coffee shop, £4.60 an hour. Great team, still friends with some of them today. Plus my previous job had been washing dishes for £3 an hour for a shouty boss so I thought I'd hit the jackpot!

Picking oranges in a sunny country with a very hot guy. Oh lovely memories.

I used to work in a plant nursery as a student. I liked propagating the best. Sitting in a shed with two ladies listening to the radio. Selecting plants in the poly tunnels in the heat wasn't the best job but I enjoyed finding good specimens then we'd get them all loaded up on the lorry.

Holiday job in a bookie’s (forty years ago). Had great laughs and certainly broadened my experience of life.

On my first day the manager put on a bet for all the staff with another betting office (strictly illegal). It won and I took an extra tenner home - thought all my birthdays had come at once!

Working in a summer school way back in the 1980's. I had just left school and had an easy, relaxed summer looking after well behaved children in an old Nissen hut in the corner of an decommissioned army barrack.

We were remote, no phone or television. One working oven and two toilets. Basic but such fun. The days flew by too fast. Pay was very low but didn't seem to matter.

My current job. Retail but an awesome boss with career progression guaranteed.

I had a supermarket job as a student and lived it. I’d talk to everyone and I’d get to know and chat to people. This was well over 25 years ago. I still occasionally get asked ‘didn’t you used to work for X supermarket?’ People remember me

Holiday rep. Shit salary but I had a fantastic time.

Pizza delivery place as a student. Great bunch of people, lots of fun at work, lots of nights out after work, free pizza, bit of an unofficial taxi service too.

Waitress in busy city centre brasserie type privately owned restaurant. Such hard work. Loved every minute of it.
Worked in a quiet petrol station during hours when shop bit was shut and payment was through the hatch. During my a levels. Basically did some school work took payments (pre tech allowing at pump payments) and restocked the sweet counter ready for the day ahead. Developed a love of toffee crisps.
Paper round - always loved being out and about on my bike !
Never enjoyed baby sitting.

Barmaid

Oh the lock-ins we had

Photo shop, just developed photos all day, oh the things I saw 😂😂😂

Waitress - £3.25/hour but the tips made it worth while.

School technician - used to work in an all boys school, loved it even though the pay was dire.

oh the things I saw
Oooh do tell’😂

After school job at Woolworths . We had such a laugh .I have had a number of bar jobs when finances were tight and enjoyed them all. It’s like getting paid to socialise and a great place to meet people.

Factory production line - hard work physically but very low stress and had an absolute ball with those colleagues.

Radio blaring all day and we'd sing along and "participate" in quizzes etc

Wish I knew then how good I had it, left it to "aim higher" shoulda stayed put!

Closely followed by waitressing and bar work.

@KeyboardWorriers Genuinely envious! That's my lottery dream sailing around the world

@bunchup that's been my experience too - good pay is often over rated!

@Hobbes8 my dd is almost 20 but still fondly remembers trips to blockbuster

@MrsFezziwig I'm afraid I must sound like my parents! £10 was a lot of money then!

oh the things I saw
Oooh do tell’😂

Stag do photos were always the best/worst. Did have a minor celeb come in with her holiday pics too. And I've seen way more boobs than most medical professionals 😂

Lifeguard and then later on receptionist in a Leisure centre. Did it from my last year of college until I finished my degree (including two gap years). Had to clean up various bodily fluids on a daily basis, constantly having to throw out junkies and street drinkers, we had a homeless man living in our first aid room for a while, people were absolutely awful to us... BUT the staff were amazing (I’m married to one of them!) and we got free gym/pool memberships and a complimentary membership for a friend.

Working in Waterstones - wish I'd never left!

I look back fondly at the job I had in a child-friendly hotel on the coast of Dorset. The chambermaid staff also had child-listening duties where you'd sit in a corridor for 2 hours reading and listening out for babies or children crying in their rooms whilst parents ate in the dining room. Some parents paid off duty staff to actually babysit and paid well.

It was a lovely place to work. We were treated well. There were well known guests from time to time. It was live in, with separate staff accommodation, mostly young people who were either students or antipodeans on their overseas experience. We were fed well. Days off were spent at the beach or exploring the local countryside.

I quite liked waitressing too, in a proper restaurant. I liked the buzz of getting successfully through a busy shift. Not sure I could do it now.

Chalet girl! Get up 6.30 and cook guests breakfast, quick clean of rooms, bake cake and layout afternoon tea - then head out on the slopes by 10am. Ski and/or sun bath all day, met awesome people, amazing social life. Back in at 5.30/6 to cook dinner and clear up tea. Out by 10pm back to the pub! Thanked by guests multiple times a day, one day off a week and one day crazy changeover. Free accommodation (bunk room), free lift pass, about £100 a week and up to treble that in tips. Oh they were the good days!! Still friends with them 15 years on (oh and married a snowboarder I met!)

I worked in the gifts department of a large department store. I loved it, lots of American Tourists spending a fortune on Waterford Crystal and golf societies looking for gifts. It was just so much fun. I moved to women’s fashions thereafter and I didn’t like it half as much

The one I'm on now.School midday supervisor.An hour a days work.Love it.