Saturday Jobs.

[Grauntie Mag]

No idea where to put this. I saw it whilst lurking elsewhere.
Did you have a Saturday job? I did. I was a packer at Victor Value’s super market. I don’t remember how much I was paid but I’m sure it was a pittance. I just remember that the checkout girls were lovely but the shop had an overwhelming smell of soap powder!

[Oma]

I never did Grauntie .
well I did occasionally help out in my Uncles newsagents and occasionally with my friend on her dad's ice-cream van

[Nanto2girls]

I didn't have a Saturday job.

[Sunshine]

I didn’t have a regular Saturday job, but I did quite a bit of babysitting on Friday or Saturday evenings, During the summer holidays between my O levels and A levels I looked after 4 children while their parents went out to work. I was 16 years old.

[Daisy]

I didn't have a Saturday job as such, but I did help a bit in my parents' shop, and after my dad died mum would go to the shop on a Saturday and I'd do the week's shopping, clean the bungalow and do the washing - and the gardening. I can't imagine now how I had the energy to go out dancing in the evening!

[Lizzie48]

I did a lot of baby sitting, living in the country did the pea pulling etc in the holidays. One of the baby (children) sitting was together with a friend, at our local chip shop, we looked after the children whilst they did the Saturday lunch time frying.

[Daisy]

Lizzie - hopefully your Saturday lunch came with the job.

[Gemini]

I didn't.
Some girls did, including my then best friend, but our headmistress frowned on her girls having a Saturday job (as if if we didn't have Saturday jobs we would be doing homework all weekend! )

From aged 14 I did do babysitting jobs though, daytime and evening.

[Nana]

I worked in a sweet shop. Sweets on one side, tobacco products on the other side. A mining community so a lot of the tobacco jars were chewing tobacco for the miners. I wasn't allowed to cut & serve it as the shop owner said it needed an experienced eye & she didn't want any waste. I wasn't allowed even one sweet for free, but could buy as much as I'd like. Those were the days.😉

[Glammanana]

I had a paper round for the then local Post Office,I picked up and sorted my round from 6.30am and finished at 8am in time to dash home and get breakfast before walking to school as if I hadn't already walked for miles delivering the papers I can still remember the houses that had papers delivered,the boss used to let us have one magazine each as part of our pay I used to have "Judy" magazine.There where 5 of us in total and sometimes he would ask us to work on the sweet counter during the holidays I worked there until I was 16 and left school for my first proper job.

[Lizzie48]

Daisy, yes, we got the fish and chips!!!! Plus scraps!!

[Plantaholic]

I had a paper round on a Sunday morning, collected the money and had to make it balance when I got back to the shop. Some people didn't like being woken up on a Sunday morning so used to leave it somewhere for me as arranged. When I was 15 I was able to get a job in Woolworths, good pay, very difficult job because in those day nothing came in packs so you had to price a length of curtain rail, so many hooks at so much etc, etc. We were asked to work on NY Eve to stock take and were well paid for that, well for a 15 year old.

[Daisy]

Plant - I well remember when we were first married my OH always had to work late on NY Eve - he worked in a bank and they had to balance the books off for the year end that night after closing. But we also had second jobs - playing in a band! So I would take all our gear to the venue, get it set up, and rush back to sit and wait outside for OH to finish work. Then we'd race back to the venue and hope we weren't too late! NY Day wasn't a bank holiday then, so we both had to be back in work the following morning - 8 am for me!

[WeeGranny]

Before I became a teacher I worked in a bank and 31st December was always end of year balancing. Not ideal for Scotland, but it had to be done! However, 1st and 2nd January were Bank Holidays in Scotland in those days, so we had time to recover. I can't for the life of me remember how I got home on Hogmanay, because I'm sure the busses would have stopped running. I lived about 20 miles away from where I worked. Maybe I managed to persuade the boyfriend to come and pick me up before we hit the town!
DS still works late on Hogmanay as it's the end of quarter for the company he works for. I think this was the first year he finished at a reasonable time.

[Daisy]

WG - I bet your DS was delighted to get a relatively early finish this year! Working in a Bank was more a way of life than a job in those days, wasn't it. Never knowing what time you'd finish any day, sudden inspections, and for us moves all over the country (well, England and Wales).