Your First Saturday Job was......

[veggiechicken]

What was your first Saturday job and how did it benefit you?
Can you remember how much you were paid?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...ay-jobs-slumps

[areia]

I used to volunteer for therare breeds centre back in 1994 i left though as I got a lil miffed at them employing staff as i wanted a paid job, did like it there though
first paid job was earning £5 a saturday in the villiage clothes shop I was 14

[Newton]

I used to assist Ernie on a Sunday! Does that count........not the premium bond chap but the one with the slowest milkcart in the west. Can't remember what the pay was but not very much. It was more for the thrill of hanging off the cart and pretending to be grown up......

He was actually called Norman!

[Newton]

?.... back in 1994.."..

Boy do I feel old now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bearded bloke]

Farm labourer,can't remember the rate but do recall that in school holibobs a six day week (at summer hours) there was a ten-bob note & some change in the brown envelope.

[bearded bloke]

Boy do I feel old now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too bud .......... mine was thirty years previous

[rustylady]

Mine was helping out in the village shop. Can't remember how much I earned. Before that I used to help out with the calves and bringing the cows in for milking - didn't get paid for that though (unless you count sitting in the farm kitchen eating home-made cakes).

[CaroltheCarrot]

My first Saturday job was in M&S in the eighties, the figure 16 comes to mind as my pay but it could just be that I was 16 at the time

[veggiechicken]

I helped my Mum when she worked in a big bakery but I didn't get paid. I was given a special jam doughnut though, it was huge! They'd injected so much jam into it that when I bit it, it exploded and I was covered in raspberry jam! I've always been picked on
My first real Saturday job was in Boots, first on pet stuff then on the drugs counter.
On the first day I made up Chr.....mas stockings for cats and dogs - that was fun. Then I advanced to the backroom drugs store where we would eat the contents of the broken bags of cough candy Finally, I was brought out to serve the public and seemed to be singled out by men looking for something for the weekend - and I don't mean me
One day's pay was 17s 9d and I'd give half of it to my Mum - and I was 15.

[trish60]

My Saturday job was at Woolworths in 1964 when every counter had its own till. The bedding counter (gardening) had large trays of plants which you had to seperate and put into bags. I had never seen lobelia plants before & gave one poor lady 6 really small pieces before someone showed me what to do. I don`t think she complained though,so perhaps she d never seen them either. My favourite counter was the sweet counter.
Can t remember how much I earned.

[VirginVegGrower]

Meat stall on the indoor market, which I hated so much that I swapped to the fruit and veg one as soon as I was able. I was 14. As for pay, I can't remember, but it used to get spent on clothes and make up pretty quickly.

[Feral007]

My first job was when I was about 12? I used to bike down to the shops and do the shopping and then it would get delivered later on. So the lady down the road who had a chook farm - eggs; used to box all the not exactly perfect size eggs and sell them door to door locally. She figured if I could do the family shopping I might have potential. She needed someone to run in and out with the eggs, and the money, and she drove the car. So it was actually a thursday evening job and if it was extra cold or end of term she'd give me a little extra for the effort. Then she used to pay me to clean eggs - by hand, fiddly bluddy job.........but the love of my life also worked up there doing the hard stuff so I was more than happy to spend hours there...........really I would have paid HER to let me do it, specially after he gave me a double up the road on his bike in summer....yes, in summer, with no shirt on. Ahhhh. Young love.

The money was handy tho

[taff]

selling eggs out of the boot of a car with my father. I didn't get paid either.

[Pumpkin Becki]

My friend and I applied for jobs at the brand new local Sainsbugs in 1991, when we were fresh-faced and 16...soooo long ago!

She was pretty miffed that I got paid more than her, because I worked on the Deli, and got danger money for using the meat slicers!! ...but I did have to wear a hair net, so it evened out

[dominic10]

October 1965 - Woolworths. We all had to pass a maths and English test. Was on the clothing counter and then put on the Christmas decoration counter - on my own - just before Christmas. Retaliated by painting my nails black. Can't remember what I was paid but it soon went.