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"Morning paper round x Sundays as well" I did, 7 day week. I liked the money xx | |||
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"Morning paper round x Sundays as well I did, 7 day week. I liked the money xx" You and me both | |||
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"Morning paper round x" Same, just Monday to Saturday though as I worked a bike shop Saturdays after my paper round | |||
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". . . in a butchers shop (very few left now) Tuesday and Wednesday after school, late one on Friday evening then all day Saturday. For £5 👍🏼" My first job was as a Taxi Controller. | |||
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"Supermarket stacking shelves and unloading the wagons. " Wagons? Was this somewhere in the wild west? | |||
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"Morning paper round x Sundays as well" Those Sunday bags were heavy with all the broadsheets and their supplements in them. | |||
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"Applied for the RAF but couldn't get in until I was 17, so worked at a veg processing plant until I was given a date. I live about 5 minutes walk from the now long gone factory. That was 1983 I nearly got in at 16 failed on eyesight so went next door and joined the Army | |||
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"Morning paper round x Sundays as well Those Sunday bags were heavy with all the broadsheets and their supplements in them." Tell me about it. I had to go back to the shop to get the second load on a Sunday, luckily an aunt gave me her shopping trolley 😤 | |||
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"Executive Nakatomi Corporation, Century City, L.A." The Christmas Party to remember... | |||
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"At aged 15 and 3/4 years started full time in a bank headquarters for £4.12.6d a week. " Your name isn't "Pike" by any chance? | |||
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"A YTS, INTEC-WEST, I thought it was a real company, turned out it was just for training and all the other trainees were @rseholes, jacked it in after a week and got another YTS, this time with the local council as a clerical trainee, it was much better and the other trainees were nice. This was 1984-85. My first proper job was as a labourer with ICI unloading oil drums off off lorries all day, in 1986" The YTS schemes were/are a con, and now there are "apprenticeships" for fake companies with no "real" job prospects at the end of it. I was "offered" (the then "Labour Exchange" way of saying "you must do" a YTS, which, at the time was 50 pence (yes 50 p), per week above unemployment benefit for a 16 year old), and as I had 2 part time jobs at the same time, would mean I could noonger do my two part time job AND result in me losing £1,10 in income. My mother didn't stand for that, and went to the "Labour Exchange" and gave them all a serious talking to, and then went to the local MP who got the same, as it was their government that started it, and she wrote to him via parliament, which was virtually unheard of back then. I didn't have to do the YTS, and I wonder why! | |||
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"A YTS, INTEC-WEST, I thought it was a real company, turned out it was just for training and all the other trainees were @rseholes, jacked it in after a week and got another YTS, this time with the local council as a clerical trainee, it was much better and the other trainees were nice. This was 1984-85. My first proper job was as a labourer with ICI unloading oil drums off off lorries all day, in 1986 The YTS schemes were/are a con, and now there are "apprenticeships" for fake companies with no "real" job prospects at the end of it. I was "offered" (the then "Labour Exchange" way of saying "you must do" a YTS, which, at the time was 50 pence (yes 50 p), per week above unemployment benefit for a 16 year old), and as I had 2 part time jobs at the same time, would mean I could noonger do my two part time job AND result in me losing £1,10 in income. My mother didn't stand for that, and went to the "Labour Exchange" and gave them all a serious talking to, and then went to the local MP who got the same, as it was their government that started it, and she wrote to him via parliament, which was virtually unheard of back then. I didn't have to do the YTS, and I wonder why! " Yes they were. I had the choice in 1984 of going to college to do a SNC in Business Studies or a YTS, I thought the YTS would be better for real work experience, I often wonder if I perhaps made a monumental error, and had I chose college I'd now be looking back at 40 years of cush office jobs instead of short term badly paid crap jobs, lol. | |||
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"At aged 15 and 3/4 years started full time in a bank headquarters for £4.12.6d a week. Your name isn't "Pike" by any chance? " Don’t tell him your name, Pike! | |||
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