Sat. job's

[littlemo]

Just wondering as many people hit their teenage years if they had a sat job and what they did. I used to work at animal magic in the 80's! I belive it is no longer there!
Then I went to work at the Berkley as a waitress. also had a job in a gas station at one point!!!! Have to say though waitressing is one skill that has definatly come in handy over the years, not that it's applicable to what I do now!!!!!

[ukbug]

I worked at Mary's Music for a few years, it was great fun. Used to love getting promo music before it came out, and faking the gallup charts by scanning records that I liked through the machine too many times (hehe - shhhh)!

[lettie]

I had a tea time job at Marlborough Rd chippy when we used to live there, monday to friday.  Also mucked out horses at Marions riding school in Rishton (in exchange for free horseriding) Saturday mornings and all day sunday. Used to help pack up a market stall once or twice a month too saturday evenings. Bloody hell! I was busy as a kid.  

[ANNE]

Had a Saturday job before I left school. I worked stacking shelves in the Asda afterschool for a couple of hours and all day Saturday. My first job when I left school at 15 was working for G.U.S in the offices. Had loads of jobs over the years even though I got married at 16 and now have 4 grown up children. 4 children.

[ukbug]

Anne, !!   - four children at 16? And I thought the kids these days were bad!    

[ANNE]

No got married at 16 ad first child at almost 18. Think ad better ammend wording of posting. Not that bad uk bug. Suppose the shocking bit is that i got married at 16 and still with the same guy.

[ukbug]

hehe - editing is cheating! now i look silly, oh well!  

[ANNE]

Amended posting it reads better now ukbug. Think i`d av been good to av ad 4 kids at sixteen.

i worked at wholesale market blackburn taking phone orders for fruit and veg free had a good time  

[adi]

i used to clean tables at the Eating House Cafe opposite the Town Hall (then immediately blow my wage in the arcade!!).

the things you do for money............... :

[janet]

I did'nt have a sat job, but my first job when leaving school was at antley villa dentist and earned the grand sum of £5 a week working 9 till 6 plus sat morning. thats what i called slave labour. by the time i had paid my bus fares bought my dinners all week there was not much left to pay my dad for board. seems to be a lot more money about these days.

[Jo]

Worked on Saturdays at café on Little Blackburn Rd but the boss was a cow (probably still is) so moved to Frozen Food Shop in Blackburn. During the week worked every teatime and some suppers at Burnely Rd Chippy. Summer jobs at Hargreaves Mill and Hyndburn playscheme.
Thing I learned most from these jobs which I apply to my current role? Don't treat your employees and assistants as dirt (happened to me loads, don't know about you lot). Anyway, it's made me turn into a good boss (I think!!?!)

[Mik Dickinson]

Jo we will have to ask your workers about that first

[Sparkologist]

I used to work in the butchers shop at the end of Cromwell Avenue, next to Moorhead School. I normally worked a couple of hours most evenings of the week, and on Saturday mornings, when I should have been revising for my O-levels.

The job involved scrubbing the wooden and synthetic chopping boards, as well as the stainless steel display counter trays. I wasn't allowed to cut or serve the meat because I hadn't been on the appropriate health and safety course. The majority of my job was just general cleaning duties.

One Saturday morning, I went to the abbatoirs in Gt. Harwood. It was like walking through the film set of a John Carpenter horror movie, going into the cold store, where all the offal and entrails were hung. But if God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them taste so good, would he???

The pay was about 70p per hour, which was a pittance really. This shortfall was made up by choice cuts of meat at knockdown prices, usually on a Friday or Saturday. Another perk was as many free bones as Mark I, my first Cocker Spaniel could eat. Once, I picked up a ham shank bone by mistake, (very salty). The dog chewed the bone all Saturday afternoon, quenched a raging thirst all Saturday evening and proceeded to sh*t and p*ss all over the kitchen floor during Saturday night. Oops! Needless to say, a major b*llocking ensued from my Old Dear.

I was offered a YTS placement as a slave at the shop, but chose to be a wannabe lecky instead. Here I am now; slaving away, but seeing the world at someone elses expense.

[WINGY]

I can't believe i missed this thread..

I was a busy little-un me..
Mum and dad said that from 13 i should earn my pocket money, so i got myself a sunday paper round at Alfs on Nuttall st. That soon turned into a regular evening telegraph round + a sunday round....

Then i got a job on the market at Simons Fabrics, loading his van with gear and putting up/pulling down his stall. Then i got a job on another stall at the same time Maureens Shoes , putting up and taking down the stalls Tue Fri and Sat. Then i was head hunted (at 14 i might add) by a mancunian guy who had a sports stall on a tuesday, and paid better money than Simons, so i went there..
So i then did Maureens 3 days a week, sports stall on tuesdays,and maureen started doing a sunday market in Scarborough!! I was Loaded!!!!!.
For a while me and our kid put up rthe majority of the freestanding stalls on accy outdoor market.
At about 15 i started hanging around witha lad from school who worked on a farm, and offered my services there for quite a while for £5 a day BARGAIN!!
Whilst working there i landed a job at Martholme Grange. What a job! I worked 7 till 11 washing up and averaged 3 courses for 300 people fridays and saturdays (believe me thats a lot of dishes) than worked 11 till 2 Glass collecting, then poured the ale for the regular staff perties till gone 6!! (no money passed over the bar i might add) And during all this i managed to get an apprenticeship and went to college 1 day and 1 night a week, where i'm still working 10 years later.