Saturday Jobs

[tiggerblue10]

Do school age teens still do Saturday/holiday jobs?

When I was around 12 I started working weekends and holidays at my dad's cafe, waiting tables, washing dishes, cleaning etc. After that I worked at my uncles dry cleaners, serving customers and putting wrap on clothes. I carried on working at the dry cleaners for a couple of years after I got a full time for a bit of extra dosh.

What job(s) did you do at weekends and school holidays?

[davebro]

In my teens I worked for a friend's dad. Chopping & bundling firewood, bottling bleach & vinegar, delivering to local shops, sourcing scrap wood from demolition sites, delivering printed milk bottle to dairy farms.

School holiday I worked as 2nd man collecting waste fat and meat products for a rendering plant & driving the co-op delivery van.

Also waiting on at our local pub Fri/Sat/Sun evenings.

[Smowball]

SIRRandyraven - wow, that was an awful responsibility for a 16 yr old!

[SIRandyraven]

@Smowball - At the time I just took it for granted.
Used to start at 6am and take over from night chap.
Then work until 2pm (Sunday) on my own.
Then a young girl 18 took over for Sunday afternoon shift.
It was busy Sunday mornings with people cleaning cars and filling up for day trips out.
Also it was illegal having someone under 18 selling petrol.

I saw everything ….even at 16 I had more brains than some of the idiots who came in.
I was busy one morning and released pump not paying much attention …then I looked out to someone filling up a plastic bucket with petrol.
I stopped pump and told him that was not a good idea …took his payment for a gallon ish and off he walked lol

[dannyk13]

I delivered greengroceries on one of those bikes with a basket at the front. It was OK until one delivery which involved a stiff climb up to the house.

[EdmundD]

Selling newspapers (The Shropshire Star) on Saturdays at agricultural shows or other outdoor events. Paid for a packet of No 6 and a few pints and a bit left over.

Summer holidays at a Cadbury's Marvel canning plant.

[SIRandyraven]

@EdmundD - Free chocolate?

Or after a while were you sick of it?

I had to go to Mars once for an IT issue and that smell …yummy …
But I think after a while …

[EdmundD]

@SIRandyraven.
Not chocolate - powdered milk. And no, we didn't get free tins.

[MissTerious]

I had lots of Saturday and holiday jobs, Woolworths, Marks and Spencer, Waitressing and working at my dad's company filing (that was the most boring) Really a good introduction and the real world and more useful than the 'university experience' that seems to be essential now. My son did the same - worked right through university doing a wide variety of jobs. I think my other half spent more time working on a building site than attending 6th form, but he learnt far more and has saved us loads of money not having to employ tradesmen!!

I never asked my parents for money to go out, and neither did my son.

[jourdain2]

Local 15/16 yr. olds all get trained as waiting staff in the village pub/restaurant.
My 2 girls worked waitressing from about that age. Posh hotel taught them a lot, including how to do silver service. It ensured they were never without a job to help at uni..
My granddaughter (16) had 2 waitressing jobs last summer (this year A levels mean she is down to 1 Sat. at Boots).

[jourdain2]

^^ Me, I worked on the bacon stall in a Bfd.market, then a shoeshop, then a bookies - all sorts of things.

[barry1010]

If I am employed in a job that involves working with children I would need a DBS check (used to be a CRB check).
If I want to employ a minor to work for me - do I still need the DBS check? What about my adult employees who would be working with the minor?

[Peter Pedant]

I said to my niece - I will PAY you to study - whowever many hours you want to work in the pub

the downside is that I see you regularly and I ask you specific questions about the study....

worked very well - 2:1
I was also going to pay fees for a years law as my brother was going frooa a "wot you want to do dat for?" phase

[Peter Pedant]

yeah foo
a lad darn da road is doing ( age 24) a uni business course who is labouring 15 h over the week end
I said christ if you STUDY for 15 h a week you will get a first.....

[he is the one whose father said - I am a scientist from the uni of Baghdad -older than Oxbridge you know ( I knew) and I have a son who doesnt think uni is important]

[zebo]

One of the jobs I had was on the bacon/cheese counter of BHS, it was a loooooong time ago, we got a lot of old ladies wanting 4 ounces of cheese, they wanted it almost shaving to get it spot on, total pains.

[237SJ]

I had a summer job serving breakfast then cleaning the rooms at age 14 in a guest house. There were loads of holiday jobs around so did the same at age 15. Taught me to think about what I leave out in hotel rooms because I know what people get up to. In the 70's, a lot of the guests used Youth Dew perfume - we squirted an awful lot of it on ourselves. At 17 I was behind a bar, even though it was illegal. It was great fun.