Lab 10,979 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Done the paper round thing for a wee while.....I delivered the most papers but got the least money because I had a shorter walk. So that got jacked. Spend most of my school holidays in the rearing field. Didn't get any money but it was a learning curve. Started fencing full time at 16 and still helped in the rearing field. Some long tiring days they were that ended up with me falling asleep in the bath a lot. One of the worst things I could imagine is being called a lazy c**t.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted June 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 You been watching the Wright stuff Bb,,,,it was on there this morning.. Only briefly mate - that wretched Alibhi Brown woman was on. Cant stand her......!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nicepix 5,650 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Started at 8 helping my cousin deliver groceries on a trolley, the sort of trolley you made yourself out of wood and wheels nicked from scrap prams and push chairs. My aunt had a corner shop and the older customers would leave her a shopping list and then on an evening the two of us would load up the trolley with boxes of groceries and deliver them to the customers. Then at 11 I got a Saturday job on the market on a carpet stall, progressed to Currys where I used to assemble bikes ready for delivery. When I'd finished assembling them I took them for a spin around the upstairs warehouse area. First time round on a new Raleigh Chopper I almost wrecked a Phillips 26" TV. The manager paid me at around 5:20pm on a Saturday and by 5:30pm just before the tackle shop closed I would have converted my wages into bait and fishing tackle. Had a paper round at 13 too. In fact I worked in some capacity for almost 50 years without a break until I retired to France aged 55. 6 months later I ended up as a self-employed mole trapper and am still at it. What a nice little read.....did Currys sell bikes at one stage then i never knew that.......if its not rude to ask mate what part of England was you in and what part of France did you retire to ? Hi Gnash, I am from a village near to Barnsley and other than a few years living in Leeds in the Revie era when my Dad tried to escape the mines have lived in the Barnsley area most of my life. Currys in Barnsley were one of the biggest branches in the country. I worked there as a Saturday lad for about four years. After leaving school I went to work in a textile company and after about four years realises that it was about to go bust as many around it already had. I saw a job advertised for a trainee manager at Currys and was interviewed by my old boss who had been promoted to regional manager. Got hired on the spot even though there were at least ten applicants and worked all over the north of England covering for the store manager's holidays and sick leave. Also did a bit of debt collecting on their behalf. Imagine debt collecting in Moss Side, Manchester. That was me in the late 70's to early 80's. When I was a Saturday lad Currys sold bikes as well as electrical stuff. By the time I re-joined it was all electrical. In those days it was still a family owned business and had a nice feeling to work there. Then Stanley Kalms made a sneaky takeover buying a load of shares on the QT and it became part of the Comet / Dixons and now PC World empire. Not so good a place to work now. I kept in touch with a couple of my former colleagues who have ended up in the Dixons shops. We moved to the Charente area of France just over four years ago. Other than the shooting which I miss I wouldn't want to move back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 21,554 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 (edited) I helped set up and pack away a market clothes stall on a Saturday I also worked in a chip shop every evening for a couple of hours peeling and chipping the spuds.. In my holidays I worked at the family business maggot farm... .nobody was going to give me money so I earned my own from the age of 13.Not the one going out of Notingham towards Ratcliffe and Bingham, by any chance ?No we was out Lincolnshire way Edited June 7, 2016 by kanny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bird 10,014 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Had a paper round earned..£7.20 and from 14-16 used to be pot collector in a busy working men's club Friday and Sunday nights I used to earn £15 a night which back in 1990 wasn't a bad earner going back million years lol, you had to have a licence when you 1st started , carnt remember if you had to be 11 or 13 to take papers , anybody remember .?? I think it was 11. You had to have a medical to get your permit. I remember going to see the nurse for the cough test at the local clinic and I'm sure that it was before I went to the big school. yeh thats right (cough) lol, was still at school taking my 11+ , and failed and went to wogbaston s/m , i mean wolbaston s/m Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darbo 4,779 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Paper round 7 days a week .collecting the money friday evening. Pay £3.00 a week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,856 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Got a paper round but didn't turn up on the first day. Worked Saturdays in a diy shop from 14, I used to cut wood on a big circular saw...at 14!...don't know why they let me. Had a milkround as well. Worked on farms at every chance including a chicken farm collecting and grading eggs. Plus doing local pest control jobs for my dad, moles, rats on allotments and stables. It was 40p bus fare to school so walked there and back 2 miles each way to save 80p a day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chid 6,749 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 From 14 I worked in a haulage yard washing road tankers (that had been carrying liquid latex) out, when there was none to clean I checked all the levels (oil,water ect) on the trucks , was fun at 14 being allowed to drive a truck and 40ft trailer around 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 One of the worst things I could imagine is being called a lazy c**t.... You lazy C**t ....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,755 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 I did a bit of tomato picking and sweeping out the greenhouses while at school and I did a summer on the desk at the nursing home my mum worked at answering the phone and signing visitors in etc but that wasn't for me. When I got kicked out of school I did a bit on a poultry farm and then went keepering at 15. I wish I had done better at school but I was nuts at the time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 13,964 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Always been a worker.... Thanks dad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keepdiggin 9,567 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Done the paper round thing for a wee while.....I delivered the most papers but got the least money because I had a shorter walk. So that got jacked. Spend most of my school holidays in the rearing field. Didn't get any money but it was a learning curve. Started fencing full time at 16 and still helped in the rearing field. Some long tiring days they were that ended up with me falling asleep in the bath a lot. One of the worst things I could imagine is being called a lazy c**t.... you forgot rent boy pal but you did that on a sunday as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 One of the worst things I could imagine is being called a lazy c**t....You lazy C**t ....... It's not got the same effect from a dwarf...infact it's kinda funny...☺️ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jacknife 2,005 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Had the easiest paper round going didnt even need to walk.........sat outside the ministry goverment bulding gates and people leaving work used to pull up and buy a paper Once papers had gone that was me done.......only used to have about 100 evening chronicles and over 5000 worked there so didnt long to flog them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Done the paper round thing for a wee while.....I delivered the most papers but got the least money because I had a shorter walk. So that got jacked. Spend most of my school holidays in the rearing field. Didn't get any money but it was a learning curve. Started fencing full time at 16 and still helped in the rearing field. Some long tiring days they were that ended up with me falling asleep in the bath a lot. One of the worst things I could imagine is being called a lazy c**t.... you forgot rent boy pal but you did that on a sunday as well. That's the day of rest pal....and more of a hobby. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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