[Closed] 44 and just popped my cherry

You've never waTched star wars???

I used to make £6.28 a week for two entire evenings' hard manual work - from coming home from school to about 9.30 at night.

not watched all the way through. seen bits and bobs of it, the big hairy bloke and gareth vader etc. i've been busy...

Lights on charge for tonight iDave ?

gareth vader

😀

I remember back in't day being offered £1.92 an hour to work in a newsagent, but I realised I earned a higher hourly rate on my paper round. Them were the days, being paid to ride my bike...

I got badly bitten by a dog on my paper round, ripped a chunk out of the back of my leg.

i work till 3-8 now scruff. will venture to lamb though... promise me you'll be there.....

*tsk *tsk, youngsters

started on a farm at 30p hour .................

For what seemed like most of a Saturday, doing the milk round, I use to receive...

A one pound note.

At 10 yrs old, felt like I was [i]loaded[/i].

Used to get a fiver for all day Sat selling spuds on the big town centre carp ark.

Luxury! When I were a lad I used to have to get up in the morning at 10pm, half an hour before I went to bed. Lick the road clean. Eat a handful of freezing cold gravel. Work 20 hours down mill for tuppence a month and when I got got home my dad would beat me around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if I were lucky!

Flam & Lag confirmed.

30p a day when I did mine. Was at the papershop at 06:30 every morning except Sundays...

I did 2 paper rounds, 7 days a week, 360 days a year for 4 years for less than a tenner a week! Dad used to help sometimes with the Sunday papers... the round paid for my first mountain bike though 🙂

Just to put this in perspective, this was in 1992 when I did my paper round for £6.28 for 9 hours work. When I turned 16 I got a job at the local supermarket for £3 an HOUR.

EDIT which was unutterably sh*t too. I quit that, and just went without the money.

The paper round was 2p per paper - 314 papers per week.

i did shitty jobs as a kid, just never a paper round - nearest newsagent being 5 miles away may have been the issue

Did you tell anyone about me being related to Jim Callaghan today mate?

I kept doing my paper round through uni What seemed quite hard work when I was 14 got easier once I could lift all the papers in one go and just walk round the route in an hour, £15 I got on a good week for at most an hour and a half's work, not too shabby.

I think I got 5 quid a week for my round. I realised I could earn an extra 5 quid a week by getting there early and writing all the numbers on everyone's papers so I did that, and then I realised I was actually riding through another round to get to my own so I did that on the way to my normal round.

So fifteen quid a week I was, I was like a mafia boss, dripping in money and laden with dollies.

deadly, yes, anyone who would listen got to hear the news. however several people wanted more info and i felt quite foolish being exposed as a seriously uninformed peddler of interesting facts

i used to pull 14 quid a week from mine, but that was a big morning round 7 days a week... sundays took the michael though! mahoosive round, loadsa huge papers, still a cracking job though.

I loved my paper rounds, I did heaps of them when I was younger. Eventually graduated onto one that earned me £50 a week in tips etc. Had to give it up when I went to college for a Saturday job in Argos which only paid £35 for a shit 8 hour day, working for a right old boot.

Looking back on it £3.50 a week (About 1983 / Age 13) for getting out of the house at 6am for 90 minutes, 6 days a week. Double bags on Friday with the local paper (probably way too heavy for a kid - doubt they would be allowed now). Perhaps I'd have done better at school if I had that extra hour of sleep - I wouldn't let my kid do it now...I know all the 'good work ethic / value of money stuff' but truth is I wore that work etich out early - just reminds me that working for somebody else for peanuts is not so great.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

I used to have a milk round job, for those who can remember milk in glass bottles being delivered to your doorstep and a Sunday paper round, didn’t start on a Sunday until 8am as you had to collect the money for the papers, it worked out really well as the shop use to drop bags off in gardens, etc although I didn’t finish until about 1pm. The introduction of Sunday supplements I am sure stunted my growth.

But the tips at Christmas were fantastic; sure I got about £50 one year… … which was like being a millionaire.

Gave it all up for an apprenticeship at £22:28 a week, the rest is history