Would you ask your son to leave home?

jellyhead

Idiophreak wrote: »

Don't know if it was done on an hourly rate, or just on the number of papers when I was a youngster...but I used to get about £15/week and the round was about 40 minutes for 5 days - so around £4.50 an hour in total...Would have taken other people a lot longer - but I was quite the cyclist in them days

My son's friend used to to one of those daily rounds, it took her about 40 minutes (I did it when she was on holiday or in hospital, and I took 45 minutes even with my bike) but that was around 18 papers per day spread all over the place. She got paid less than £9 for her 4 hours work per week. I think she got paid epr paper, she gave up after a year or so because she didn't like having to do Saturday late afternoon, and was getting told off for going shopping with her friends then doing the paper round after dinner.

I suppose a good round with lots of customers close together would pay well My son says a girl in his class gets paid more than £5 just for a Saturday morning round which takes around half an hour.

My paper round came with an explanation of wages ... they have different 'bands' for the type of housing, and for the type I deliver to they expect you to do 100 in an hour. Leaflets are 1,500 per hour but they don't pay for the first one (they reckon it doesn't take you any longer!). On a typical round with 3 leaflets I get paid almost £10 but it does take me longer than they say. I am clumsy and old though

I like the freedom of being able to do it at any point over the 2 days, so I can fit it around whatever else I am doing, wait for the rain to stop or whatever.

sorry victory this is not relevant to your boy, but may be of interest to anyone else with an ungrateful teen