Where was your teenage Saturday job?

maman

I worked at BHS. We didn’t get allocated a counter (yes, they had counters then) until we arrived. I loved it when allocated pick and mix sweets as the time went quickly but loathed mens' jumpers. I'd spend all day just tidying up and folding them. 

Hoenir

When I was 12 my mother got me an interview to work on a petrol forecourt in a Renault garage. Started on the princely sum of 40p an hour. Worked 8-6 with an hour for lunch. Did it until I was 16. During the school holidays used to clean the new cars coming off the transporters. 1st September was a big deal back then. As people wanted the new registration year. The cars arrived waxed over so required a lot of work to bring them up to show room condition. Got a bonus for every vehicle that I did. The sales people also tipped me if there was urgency. In the end reckoned that I could fully valet a vehicle in around 3 hours. Hard work but enjoyable. Remember in my last summer getting £165 for my last weeks work. Big money back then. 

Taught me a lot having the job. Also gave me otherwise unaccessible opportunites. Such as one of the petrol account holders, a F1 engine scrutineer, who gave me grandstand seats and pit passes to the 1972 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. Went with a school friend, We had no transport so we hitch hiked there and back. 

Brambling

Local Spar supermarket I started the week I turned 15.  2.5 hours on Friday night which was their late night closing and all day Saturday started 1979 and was paid £7.50 but as it was around the corner there were no bus fares and I went home for lunch.  I also worked full time during school holidays. 

I baby sat from a frighteningly young age (looking back it was illegally young) and was paid £5 a evening by the time I was 15 I was in demand but non family members were vetted by my dad first 😁

crazybunnylady4

worked for Barretts shoes while I was in college back in 1999; hated every minute of the job. Was located within the local Dorothy Perkins which was about a 20 minute walk from my college at the time. 
I ended up leaving due to a in store accident; smacked my left knee going up a metal stepladder to get a box off a shelf in the storeroom. Couldnt stand/walk properly for about a week afterwards. Found out I had dislodged some of the cartilidge in the knee socket. Never been the same since, especially in colder weather!

When I went back to college/university later on down the line (as a mature student) I landed a weekend job with occasional overtime in Waitrose. That was hands down one of the best jobs I ever had! I ended up working the patisserie counter and made really good friends with a couple of colleagues working the deli counter alongside me; one of the ladies had taken a cheese course (!) as part of her training and used to slip me samples occasionally.
If I said I particularly liked something she'd slice off a bit of the cheese from the wheel and pop a price on it and stick it in the back fridge. I soon worked out after a few times this happened that she was actually pricing it up reduced, bless her heart.  

PollyWollyDoodle

Sainsbury’s, three hours on Friday night and then 8-4 on Saturday (hard to believe that the shop closed at 4 pm in those days!) this is in the late 1970s.  I think I earned about £15 each weekend, and it’s probably in relative terms the biggest disposable income I’ve ever had.  

I loved it, there were a lot of teenagers there, there seemed to be an 18th birthday party every weekend, and I fitted in much better than I did at school.  It taught me a lot.  

Prudent

sammyjammy said:

Chemist in 1990 8am to 1pm for the princely sum of £5, poor even then.

I worked for £1.25 too an hour in a saddlery shop. The bus fare each way was £1.50. I enjoyed the job though and got a discount. I also trained young ponies at home and this was much more lucrative. The saddlery gave me some potential customers too. I had a gap year between school and uni and worked in the oil industry doing admin. It was more lucrative than the early years in my teaching career. I saved the money and it allowed me to work less in uni holidays and do some travelling. 

Chrisca50

I can't remember how much I was paid but I was a Saturday girl in Woolworths.  What I can remember was that I was put on the cat and dog food counter and the tins were piled up in a 4-3-2-1 formation and we had to serve people through these and the amount of times I knocked them over and bruised my knuckles!!!

AlwaysAllie

My dream job - Thomas Cook (travel agents), I was studying travel and tourism at college - was there with parents booking a holiday and commented about some reference book I recognised.   Happened to be the manager serving us and she asked if I wanted a Saturday job.  I think I did 10-5 for £15, increased hours when I finished college then fell into a full time job there and stayed with the company for 8 years. 

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joedenise

Worked in Woolworths in mid 60s and was paid 19s 9d (was actually £1 but had to pay 3d NI!).  Bit higher than others who worked there in the 60s but assume it was because I worked in an outer London branch!

Worked in a soap and shampoo factory between 4th and 5th year for the princely sum of £5 a week (1967).

annieb64

Working as assistant on  baker's delivery van helping deliver bread to the village and local farms. Started in 1969 , was paid £1 a day and could eat as many cakes as I wanted.