Where was your teenage Saturday job?

Mum161111

I was a Saturday girl in  Copland and Lye's counting house, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.  My wage was 25 shillings - that was in 1964 and it was really good pay for a Saturday job. 

I remember wanting to buy a pair of 'nice' stockings and a colleague told me they would be too expensive for me - even with the modest staff discount.   

I saved up and bought a hairdryer there and it lasted for many years.

arielgirl

Tue, Thurs (evening) and Saturday all day in a hairdressers. Washing hair, sweeping floor and general cleaning, making drinks, holding foils or roller and handing them to stylest, going out collecting lunches.. Rubbish money £10 for whole day Saturday but tips I could keep and hair done for free. 

t14cy_t

i workesd at a butchers shop on saturdays, sometimes after school and in the holidays. hard work but stood me in good stead for life i think. had to walk 3 miles to get there too!!

Albermarle

Something different for me than working in a shop.
My first job was a Summer season hiring out deckchairs from a big stack on the prom of a seaside town. I have a vague memory of being paid £20 a week in the mid 70's, even if the odd day was rained off.
After that I spent weekends manually checking football pool coupons. It was quite good pay per hour, but the actual hours varied a lot depending on how many draws there were.

Wednesday2000

I worked in the Macro store in Charlton, London in the holidays while I was at home from uni in the mid 90s. It was fairly well paid as i recall, £7 or £8 per hour. 

Wednesday2000

Just googled, it is spelled Makro!

2childmum2

I had a Saturday job in Boots - in the baby department, which back then sold cots and prams. My main memories are lugging huge packs of nappies from the store room. They were much thicker back then. There was also another Saturday girl who never got the hang of the tills, where we had to input the price of everything, and having to sort both the till and irate customers. I had the opportunity to play the cello with one of the big London orchestras one Saturday and they wouldn't let me take the day off, so I left.

DUBVENDOR

Around 1988 i worked at Chip shop peeling and chipping the potatoes . Started job share with my mate £10 each a week he lasted a day or so .So i ended up on £20 a week .Once a month a stock car meeting nearby they would all call in for chips ect . And the amount of potatoes bags would be around 3 times as much . Happy days    

Frith

I babysat for our neighbours on Sunday nights for years. 

Rang church bells at weddings (£5 a time).

Picked fruit locally but we were paid by weight. 

Nelliegrace

Wimbush the Bakers in 1973 for about £1.80 for 8 hours. A large white loaf was 14p. We were allowed to toast the crusts, left over from making the packs of sandwiches, for our lunch. There was a lot of cleaning. The manageress would send me out with 20p to buy her a pack of 10 cigarettes. 

The lads who worked in the greengrocers on Saturdays got 50p an hour. 

I did some baby sitting and spent a few long days picking blackberries. 

My daughter started work on Saturdays aged seven, in the late 1980s, singing at weddings with the church junior choir for which she earned 60p.