Varnished newly built kitchens and swept the workshop every saturday from age 14 to 16 to pay for my bmx bits and pieces Worked in Lavells in Hitchin every Saturday (all day) and Sun (morning) from 16 until A-levels Spent summer holidays from about aged 14 stacking hay bales and creosoting (sp?) fences on a farm up the road - this is the only one I can remember how much I got paid...£1 an hour, £1.50 on Sundays for back breaking work. No wonder farmers have so much money. Packed and shipped false limbs and surgical screws / plates for my mates dad when finished school for a year (we screwed Barry Sheen back together) Worked in the Argos warehouse in Welwyn Garden City (very dull place) Was a barman in the Gypsy Moth in Greenwich
Have had almost as many 'proper' jobs since getting a degree....
Delivered newspapers for Barnehurst Post Office newsagents (16 bob a week). Worked Saturday and Sunday mornings in a pub in Welling for a few months. Can't remember the name of the pub. Uni holiday jobs included delivering the Xmas mail from Bexley PO. Working for Bexley Council parks department. Working for a cleaning company that specialised in cleaning up newly built houses after the plumbers, carpenters etc. had wrecked the places. Well paid jobs, at the time, for a couple of months at Tate & Lyle and the Central Electricity GB, and best paid of all, working for the Liberal Party Central Office in Westminster. Didn't vote for them though!
Well I had a job selling furniture and white goods at Woolies in woolwich in the early seventies, then moved on to selling womens clothes from Saddies stall in woolwich covered market. Quite an education for a young man.
Delivered Mercury and Newshopper, worked in Texas on Bugsby's way briefly; then John Lewis, Oxford Street, selling Garden Furniture from January to September and the Christmas Decorations for 3 months, permenantly covered in glitter for 3 months.
Worked the Xmas post for a couple of years when a student that was good fun, worked in a box office that did not have it's phone lines advertised for 3 weeks, that was easy. And in an insurance company that was closing, permenant leaving parties for 3 months.
was a milkboy.£5 for 2 mornings work! then worked at bhs oxford street.got london weighting(sp?) so was good pay and at the time they were doing it up and needed staff for overtime,double pay on sundays and two and a half times for bank holidays....boom.
Started Out Doing A Milkround,Then Got A Paper Round.At The Time My Mum Was An Artist And Had A Studio, She Got Me Modelling,I Did Still Life/Nude/Semi Nude Or Whatever Was Required, Really Good Money.Only Downside Was I Would Sometimes Get Stiff.
Paper round aged about 11- 13- as mentioned above- great exercise!
Did summer jobs- post room- sales assistant at Chappell's of Bond Street, Music store-
Most weird (looking back) was portering at the local hospital after graduating and juggling teaching (argghhhh!) and concerts, so i swapped onto a shift rota.
Only when i got a call from a ward sister at 3am to take a "body" to the morgue (which involved lifting it into a fridge full of other bodies) did i really think- wft have i let myself in for.
Still, whenever i want to whinge about work i think back and suddenly everything seems ok
i had a sunday paper round in sheffield. delivered to posh houses all massive drives. only about 30 houses but about five mile round trip. every bugger had the times with all the suppliments plus the observer etc. weighed a ton i was only 11. only got a quid. realll crappy job in bad winter's. then pot washer at a beefeater pub. i remember this mad chef who was always playing bon jovi slippery when wet, when it was first out. kept getting slapped with a wet tea towel when not working fast enough. as many free steaks as i liked though, bargain.
Used to work in Waitrose. Worked for about 1 and a half years stacking shelves. Used to do Tuesday and Thursday nights and then the long haul shift on the Sunday.. 8-4.30 ! It was a nightmare if you had a day on the raz at Sunderland away before hand ! Enjoyed it at times but did get very tedious.
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Then searly 80's ome bar work in Kolster Brands / STC / ITT Social club, which was the factory opposite the old Sidcup Bus Garage.
Worked in Lavells in Hitchin every Saturday (all day) and Sun (morning) from 16 until A-levels
Spent summer holidays from about aged 14 stacking hay bales and creosoting (sp?) fences on a farm up the road - this is the only one I can remember how much I got paid...£1 an hour, £1.50 on Sundays for back breaking work. No wonder farmers have so much money.
Packed and shipped false limbs and surgical screws / plates for my mates dad when finished school for a year (we screwed Barry Sheen back together)
Worked in the Argos warehouse in Welwyn Garden City (very dull place)
Was a barman in the Gypsy Moth in Greenwich
Have had almost as many 'proper' jobs since getting a degree....
As for your Welling FC lottery round didn't you make your mate do half of it?
was at Browns for nearly a year ! 6-7pm - tough work ! Beats giving up a Saturday working in BHS :-)
The Welling round was a swizz, easiest money ever. Wonder if their lotto is still going ?
So do you not have your hair cut in Lee's any more then?
Worked Saturday and Sunday mornings in a pub in Welling for a few months. Can't remember the name of the pub.
Uni holiday jobs included delivering the Xmas mail from Bexley PO. Working for Bexley Council parks department. Working for a cleaning company that specialised in cleaning up newly built houses after the plumbers, carpenters etc. had wrecked the places. Well paid jobs, at the time, for a couple of months at Tate & Lyle and the Central Electricity GB, and best paid of all, working for the Liberal Party Central Office in Westminster. Didn't vote for them though!
£8 and done in ten minutes. super.
Worked the Xmas post for a couple of years when a student that was good fun, worked in a box office that did not have it's phone lines advertised for 3 weeks, that was easy. And in an insurance company that was closing, permenant leaving parties for 3 months.
Did summer jobs- post room- sales assistant at Chappell's of Bond Street, Music store-
Most weird (looking back) was portering at the local hospital after graduating and juggling teaching (argghhhh!) and concerts, so i swapped onto a shift rota.
Only when i got a call from a ward sister at 3am to take a "body" to the morgue (which involved lifting it into a fridge full of other bodies) did i really think- wft have i let myself in for.
Still, whenever i want to whinge about work i think back and suddenly everything seems ok
Nothing has beat Arfur in the teenage version of Dear Deidre's Casebook though....