What job did you do whilst at school..?

[HotStuff]

During summer holidays from Uni I spent most of the time working as a messenger for various companies in London which was good fun. I also did a 2-week stint as a lift attendant for an insurance company in the City, which was OK until I got stuck in the lift on my own for about an hour and a half

[Rhona]

I used to do a few Saturdays in a wedding dress shop. I loved it - very elegant place, all the customers were happy 'cos they were buying their wedding dress, and I was the only one there who fitted the sample sizes the designers sent so I got to model all the dresses. I was also earning far too much for a Saturday girl as I got commission for each dress I sold, which was loads. Nice little job!

[bubblewrap]

Making a mess in the living room.
..................."..............my bed room room.
Coming home in a filthy state.

[binley100]

Waitress in a cafe then switchboard in a furniture store.
My girls have both had saturday jobs as soon as they could. Eldest at fourteen worked as a editorial messenger just 4 hrs, then also worked on reception at a sports centre. Also did hoilday work in a afterschool club.
Youngest worked as from 16 as a cashier at T**co's for a year then got work at the theatre.
It's never done them any harm to earn their own money.

[sewer rat]

From 14 I worked on a farm - pigs and beef cattle - with some stable work thrown in.

[northepaul]

I still know a few garages where they will put the petrol in for you.

I worked in a bookshop - brilliant job for me

When I was a student I did a few different jobs - bar work, shop work, office and by far the best was colouring in geological maps for an oil company.

Working in a bookshop = my dream job

AND you got to do colouring in as a job..wow..two dream jobs!!

[HeyWayne]

Nothing you'd consider a career, but I have an extensiuve collection of name tags and hair nets.....

Sorry, drifted off there.

Paper round - every morning, and also a local free paper of a Thursday evening.

I also worked as a cleaner (but that may have been just after school...) pushing a broom round a warehouse mostly.

I also used to work on a 'video van' - a bit like a mobile Blockbuster (only it was a Bedford Midi van). Used to quite enjoy that as I'd get my pick of whatever videos where left at the end of a night.

I did a brief stint painting house numbers - you know those naff ones you get at B&Q - black plaque with a 'scene' painted on them and the house number in white. Didn't really enjoy that one as I was on my own all day.

Unpaid, I used to help my did out in his garage mending cars (that was from about the age of 7).

[rustylady]

Helped out at the local farm, looking after the calves. Also helped out at another farm which did B & B - anything from cleaning to serving meals to washing up.

[Hilary B]

Saturdays WoolWorths (I got the stockings counter, everything was so many shillings and 11d)
Left after a while to work in a greengrocers (slightly higher pay) and was working there when the decimal money came in. I still reckon that triggered a load of inflation, which is one reason I never liked the idea of switching to the Euro, it would happen all over again (and it certainly did happen in Spain).

[JanieB]

In our teens, my sister and I picked fruit and sold it at our local greengrocers - but not a proper job. We also used to do the admin for my dad. Hewas a GP before the modern system of partnership practises. He was responsible for all his patients 24/7. My mum was his (unpaid but qualified) practice nurse. We did the the admin. I was also his receptionist for a while when he went into the modern system.

When I married at 18 I continued to cover holidays and sickness for his receptionist and also worked on my husband's farm when needed. I've just lost my job through cost-cutting at age 62. I work, I can't believe in not working. It will drive me nuts .

[taff]

Worked in a creamery with my mother as my boss...I am now a fully trained creamer [STOP SNIGGERING]
Also cleaned a dentists, the bloody teeth left on the side and all, and volunteered in a charity shop at weekends[money off great clothes, before they got popular]

[Two_Sheds]

I worked SO hard when I was a kid. I started a paper-round at 13, up at Silly O'Clock every morning come rain or snow. I remember it took 3 hours once in the snow drifts, then I had to go out again in the afternoon (Fridays) to collect the paper money. People would be out, or pretend to be out, so I'd have to go back out AGAIN on a Saturday to collect the money.

then I got a job on the till on a Monday after school so Mr Capps (bless him) could have a bit of a sit down.

On top of that, I filled shelves at the Co-op after school, and worked at BhS on a Saturday morning, then on the tills at the Co-op on Sat. afternoon.

I also did ad-hoc babysitting for Mum, and for a lady from BhS. I'd cycle to the babysitting, 5 miles late at night.

I did a couple of shifts at Pontins (like Butlins) cleaning chalets. It was a filthy horrible job, and an 8 mile cycle ride for about 3 quid: the sheets weren't cleaned, we just had to shake them out and pick out the litter (imagine the kind of litter you get in a bed. Yuk)

I was earning over £90 a week (in the late 80s), as well as going to school (A levels). I put it all in the bank for a rainy day. When I started working full time, my income actually went down (because I started paying tax & NI)

Kids are spoilt these days, they want everything given to them on a plate.

[Magiccat1978]

I had a paper round - well two til my little bro took one over. I worked at the local riding stables 2 nights a week and at the weekends, as well as getting paid a whole 83p an hour I got free riding lessons which was fantastic. At 14 I started teaching the toddler lessons which was great fun, loads of tiny bouncy kids giggling on small, fat, furry ponies. Sadly it closed down when I was 16 and I got a job waitressing at a local garden centres tearoom but later progressed to working in their bar and bowling green. Missed the horses, even though I had my own so I got a job at another stables in the mornings and did both for a while. When I went to Uni i gave up the stable job and got a few shifts in a call centre - which I hated but I kept the waitressing job til just after I got married at 22

[Pumpkin Becki]

I worked at Sainsbury's during my A-levels and Art Foundation course. I was on the Deli (so I got 'danger money' for using the meat slicers!!). It was bloomin' hard work, but it paid for my first car, and I could judge exactly where to cut a piece of cheddar to get a 1lb piece!!

[sweetiepea]

I had a Saturday job in a newsagents and earned one pound per hour which was then handed over to my mother. I got my bus fare for colege out of it. During the summer I worked 7 days a week in a takeaway, sometimes finishing at 2am. Thought nothing of it. I knew it was the only way I'd have money in my pocket.