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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

13

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"13"

I’m so sorry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13 I think, could have been 12. I got a Saturday job working at Sportsco.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"13

I’m so sorry "

I wasn't sorry, I saved up £3:50 and bought my first pair of Levi's

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

Why are you sorry Steve?

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By *eadchefski1970Man
over a year ago

York

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By *eadchefski1970Man
over a year ago

York

13 helped the local milk man on his round

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Strawberry picking. I was paid £1.20 a crate.

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

I was about 14 or 15 I think. Saturday evening in a chippie cleaning all the glass windows and trays/grates inside the display cases.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16

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By *iman2100Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

14. I used to work in a welding research lab.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

15 on a farm/private animal collection.

I enjoyed having the money.

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By *oodoodMan
over a year ago

Suffolkish

16..YTS for those that remember them..£27.50 a week

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"I was about 14 or 15 I think. Saturday evening in a chippie cleaning all the glass windows and trays/grates inside the display cases."

Were you paid in scraps ?

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By *his_Kitty_ScratchesWoman
over a year ago

WSM

12 or 13 I had a few paper rounds one after school and 2-3 on weekend mornings. Hated doing them but loved the extra bit of pocket money

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Does doing a paper round count? in which case it was when I was 12 or 13 way back in 1953.

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By *iromancergirl1Woman
over a year ago

bolton

13 I had a paper round

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

16. Student helper at the homework club at school. I don't remember offering much help

The following year I got a job in a shop, evenings and weekends

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

Paper round

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

10, the paper round.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

?

13, stacking shelves at the village shop after school.

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

16 I think

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By *jorkishMan
over a year ago

Seaforth

16 weekend job working as a nursing auxiliary for NHS on a ward for the elderly

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Why are you sorry Steve?"

13 is small

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

16. A saturday job in a small, independent auto spares shop.

And yes, bloody capitalism!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15 got a job in a local call centre

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Why are you sorry Steve?

13 is small "

It is but I wasn't down a coal mine and I was more than happy to have some money in my pocket. Not least because it gave me a little independence. Our kids weren't legally allowed to work until 16.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"16..YTS for those that remember them..£27.50 a week "

Yes I remember was £26 when I started

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

18 as an apprentice on a whopping £2.73 an hour

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

16

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"18 as an apprentice on a whopping £2.73 an hour "

I got my first full time job age 18 as a library assistant. I was paid £4191 per year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"18 as an apprentice on a whopping £2.73 an hour

I got my first full time job age 18 as a library assistant. I was paid £4191 per year"

And know can afford holidays abroad

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

Paper round at about 11, daffodil picker not long after

Pot washer in restaurant from 13 (during summer hols)

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

I was almost 14 when I started my first Saturday job

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite "

22. What realistic Utopia, taking into consideration that people want their freedom AND equality, do you have in your manifesto to replace Capitalism, OP? Just wondering seeing as you bang on about the evils of anything beyond the far left of centre in the political spectrum often enough.

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By *ornynorfolkguyMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk

13. Saved all my money and blew it all on a stereo.

It took months but taught me a valuable lesson.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester


"you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite

22. What realistic Utopia, taking into consideration that people want their freedom AND equality, do you have in your manifesto to replace Capitalism, OP? Just wondering seeing as you bang on about the evils of anything beyond the far left of centre in the political spectrum often enough."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a Saturday job from the age of 11. My grandfather owned shoe repairing shops. I used to work on the sales side, key cutting and cleaning.

NBVN x

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

11 paper round, 14 in a bike shop, 17 an apprenticeship

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

11 or 12, farming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13

Pxx

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By *BootyfulDayWoman
over a year ago

13 I think paper round and 14 as a waitress

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

Chesterfield

Paper round early teens until I left for uni.

It was the free paper on a Friday night and I used to basically run it with a full bag. £/hr worked out pretty decent.

Then worked my placement year, saved enough to live on until I graduated.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

I was 11 and picked raspberries throughout the summer holidays.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite

22. What realistic Utopia, taking into consideration that people want their freedom AND equality, do you have in your manifesto to replace Capitalism, OP? Just wondering seeing as you bang on about the evils of anything beyond the far left of centre in the political spectrum often enough."

Old JC's manifesto was pretty solid to be fair.

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By *ilfMan
over a year ago

GLOUCESTER

16. A Christian & outreach printing company.

Left after I discovered they used my photo for a fake "we helped this homeless person" story in a shareholders leaflet. Made a complaint and with my parents threatened legal proceedings and settled out of court.

Actually ended up working with some of the same people years later elsewhere who left for the same reason.

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By *ilfMan
over a year ago

GLOUCESTER

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By *ilfMan
over a year ago

GLOUCESTER


"16. A Christian & outreach printing company.

Left after I discovered they used my photo for a fake "we helped this homeless person" story in a shareholders leaflet. Made a complaint and with my parents threatened legal proceedings and settled out of court.

Actually ended up working with some of the same people years later elsewhere who left for the same reason."

Then moved into an apprenticeship with a butchers, 2008 recession hit, let go, went self employed into the jewellery trade, now full time with that for over 14 years.

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By *exanthemMan
over a year ago

North

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By *exanthemMan
over a year ago

North

When I was 12 for counting cash for a shop owner, then moving that cash to Bank

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite

22. What realistic Utopia, taking into consideration that people want their freedom AND equality, do you have in your manifesto to replace Capitalism, OP? Just wondering seeing as you bang on about the evils of anything beyond the far left of centre in the political spectrum often enough."

If I bang on about it too much, I’m sorry. You’re free to continue to ignore me

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

I had a paper round at 11

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

wokingham

11 and it allowed me the freedom to work hard, get paid and buy myself a sick Spider-Man toy that was all the more sick because I earned it myself

But fuck capitalism right? Because *checks notes*… it’s really really super evil and stuff

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By *ed LipstickWoman
over a year ago

Fucksville

I was a waitress at the age of 14, got paid £1.10 an hr, only allowed a 20min break, but got a free portion of chips and worked 11 hr shifts

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

17 I was at tech college for a while.

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

I was 10 when I used to help out on the milkmans round back in the days before the stuff contained preservatives and came in plastic bottles, and of course before HSE were around to poker their noses in to prevent you having fun.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16

YTS

Was not on it long chap took me on at pharmaceutical factory

Was on mega money then

£189 week

Only had to give my landlady £40 a week

Bought my first motorcycle Honda CB 125

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

16 when left school

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area


"I was 10 when I used to help out on the milkmans round back in the days before the stuff contained preservatives and came in plastic bottles, and of course before HSE were around to poker their noses in to prevent you having fun."

I guess all those workers whose lives have been distroyed through accidents in the work place really miss the "fun" of being mangled, crushed and mutilated by some machine, truck, explosion...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9 or 10 morning paper round before school

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Grew up on a farm so I've always worked. If we'd done something exceptional like after lambing we'd get a bit of money from my grandparents. Outside of home, when I was 17 in a local pub in the evenings and weekends, initially as a pit scrubber then waitressing and bar work when I turned 18.

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By *oroRick1027Man
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

Joined the Army at 15

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle


"16..YTS for those that remember them..£27.50 a week

Yes I remember was £26 when I started "

16 and was £23 a week when I started, gave my mam £10 a week board and saved the rest to put towards a wedding/house

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By *ymbunnyfitCouple
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

16 got about £24 a week mum took half !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At 13 a baby sitting job 3x a week for a couple who worked evenings, it helped my mum out

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own


"I was about 14 or 15 I think. Saturday evening in a chippie cleaning all the glass windows and trays/grates inside the display cases.

Were you paid in scraps ?"

Not far off I think I earned about £4 for the 3 hours work but as they had a wet fish counter too, I often got fresh crabs to take home too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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14 doing pheasant/partridge beating.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14

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By *uv2kissMan
over a year ago

fenland

Paper boy first and delivered the papers announcing man had landed on the moon.

First full time job 15, left school on Friday, started Monday.

Got paid £10.00 gave 1 pound ten shillings house keeping.

Bought a Dansette record player.

Bought a pair of Levis.

Put a deposit on a motor bike and still had money left the following week

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

15 . Worked on mobile fruit and veg van.

Then once sixteen. Worked in Woolworths . First in storeroom . Then when UK went metric. I was put on counter tills.

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By *otmale5Man
over a year ago

glasgow

13 Saturday job working in a local bike shop.. then 2 nights after school working at a restaurant in Glasgow . Never stopped working since .

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

16. Secretarial work for a neighbour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14. Picking and packing tomatoes in a hothouse. The heat exhaustion was not worth the pittance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

11 washing up in a guest house.x

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

13 did some pointing up for some brickies, ended up spending the 6 weeks holidays with them at the end they gave me and my mate £2! Each!! good banter though

D.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13 putting leaflets into the local newspaper. Did that until I was 19 as well as having a Saturday job from the age of 15 at various places.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

15, as a petrol pump attendant. Not much fun in the winter, but £16 a week went a long way back in 1977

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

I was 11.

Paper round before school and weekends. Sunday papers were the worst!

Jo.Xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

12 jet washing and cleaning lorries

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

14, collecting and washing glasses in a pub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14.....................

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15yrs old on a Shoe stall at Blackbushe market..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

11 I had a paper round, loved all the tips at Christmas it made the rest of the year and times out in the rain worth while

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

16½ I did a bit of car washing before then but not often.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16 electrofish surveys of rivers.One of which led to the UK's first million pound fine for pollution

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

12, Newsagents @ 5am Sunday mornings for the papers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

12 dish washer on a saturday

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

13, I delivered the local paper.

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

13, as a papergirl.

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By *aul40nwMan
over a year ago

wirral

12 i lied and said i was 13 .... local paper round

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"13, as a papergirl. "

Paper round in Peckham when 14, earned the princely sum of £6.25 per week which paid for entry into Millwall, a programme and a dirty burger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

5!! I had to pull 'T' trolly truck out of tha mine...an take my penny home tat shoe box

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By *osey WalesMan
over a year ago

.

As soon as i could carry bricks, i was on building sites helping my Da at weekends..

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

Paper round at 14 for me. £9 a week which meant I could buy a couple single records and save for a moped when I was 16.

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

16, in the summer holidays working on the local farm animal auctions, cleaning out the shit from the cow pens at 7 in the morning,

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By *unandgamegeekMan
over a year ago

Bolton

I was either 18 or 19 when I got my first paid job. It was at a McDonald's and I hated it.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.


"you got your first paid job?

- eurgh. Capitalism amirite "

Window cleaning with my uncle at 14.

Before that used to pick strawberries in the summer hols when living in Lincolnshire hard work that used to get 25p a punnet but they where more like buckets and would take ages to fill.

Some weeks I'd make a whole £5

Still it was the 70's and it would go a loooong way

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

11, the newspaper bag was bigger than I was so I used to drag it along on my skateboard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15 paper round

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

14 gardening

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By *ustlooking83ABCMan
over a year ago

Bedford

13 it was a paper round. If i remember right, the bag was just as big as me, especially on a Sunday!

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By *heDesiCandiTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester M3 4JQ

16

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

14, making boxes at a cake factory after school. Then waitressing at a coffee shop on a Saturday as well. That white lightning wasn’t going to buy itself!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14/15. Saturday job in Halfords.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16 as an overworked under paid apprentice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Babysitting at 14/15 and then worked in Matalan at age 17. I was paid £2.80 an hour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13, paper round & local chippy making the boxes for the chips, cleaning cars on our street. I was hooked on earning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

14/15

Paper round paid 7.50 a week.

I then picked up a separate saturday and sunday round that both paid 2.50 each, a Thursday round fir the local paper was 3.50.

After my saturday round I'd cycle 6 miles to work in a garage fitting tyres for 2.50 an hour from 8 to 1pm.

Nearly £30 a week and I was loaded

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

11.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"11."

13, got a job helping the milkman and got paid 50p... (it was only 3 long roads, at the end of his round.

I did the whole round one weekend, but it was freezing cold. sleet, snow and rain. 5am start. I was so cold.... i never did it again.

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By *rTongueMan
over a year ago

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16, so far I’ve been very lucky I’ve managed to be in a full time paid job ever since.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15 yrs old.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think 11...summer jobs.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

14 I think, I picked tomatoes in a massive greenhouse in the next village up from me. Had to bike there as well, it was boiling in there!

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

13 washing dishes in the local pub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"16 as an overworked under paid apprentice."

Sorry to hear that mate, now why don't you go make a round of teas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15. Milkman.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"15. Milkman. "

Sorry Steve, there was a time when a van used to drive around every street and deliver fresh milk each morning before you woke for breakfast. In case you didn’t know what a milkman was. Damn milenenials

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By *ristinapinkWoman
over a year ago

Staines-upon-Thames

19, doing market research interviews

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

16

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By *othicslaveCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

9/10, picking fruit on fields. for my dad to help him.

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By *nked rascalMan
over a year ago

Burton on Trent

16, summer job as a door to door sales rep for a double glazing company

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13 my Dad was an electrician I used to help him do house rewires we were working on the Queens silver jubilee in 1977

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

12. Was supposed to be 13 to get a paper round but my sister shared hers. Evening post, 5 days a week and had to knock and collect the money on a Friday

Mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

18. £5.09ph. for 1 of the big 4 supermarkets. Previous I spent nearly every weekend doing voluntary work, first aid for events...

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

15 and I worked as a dishwasher. Great times

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By *iking 777Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

14 in an undertakers

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

12 I think paper round I got great tips at Christmas

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere


"12 I think paper round I got great tips at Christmas "

My son got £120 one year! Hes very smart and gave all his customers a Christmas card

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By *ast_jjMan
over a year ago

Dublin and London

13, worked in a stud farm. Worked 13 out of 14 days. Every 2nd Sunday off.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle


"12 I think paper round I got great tips at Christmas

My son got £120 one year! Hes very smart and gave all his customers a Christmas card "

Wow,I was pretty smart as a child and still seems to have followed me as it still find money in the streets and not looking for it can just turn up whilst passing notes must have found fair amount mind you the guy who I used to deliver the papers for pure greedy used to try and keep half of the money left by customers whose papers I was going to post

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

14 working in Happy Eater cooking lol ??

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By *rgasmicChemistryCouple
over a year ago

east coast

11 working at a shop in the back breaking down boxes

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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago

Burnleyish (She/They)

8/9 maybe... But my parents owned their own business so it was a way to keep me occupied during holidays.

Pocket money stopped and I was given a proper Saturday job at 13, with paid work monday-friday in the holidays.

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