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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. :laugh: 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.

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Saturday was into town and shoplift anything that wasn't nailed down for us .

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 o

When I was 11 I had a weekday paper round and worked on a milk float on the weekends ... by the time I was 13/14 I was working on a farm before school ( if I bothered going ) and after and on weekends

Started a paper round when I was around 13, by the time I was 14 I had 3. Morning 1 & 2 free weekly ones, I used to deliver those more often than not :icon_redface:

Also worked in a butchers Friday after school and all day Saturday. Was my first taste of work.

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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.

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When I was 11 I had a weekday paper round and worked on a milk float on the weekends ... by the time I was 13/14 I was working on a farm before school ( if I bothered going ) and after and on weekends ... I remember my old man telling me on my 14th birthday when there was no present that if I wanted anything I should work harder save some money and buy it myself ... By the time I was 15 I had been kicked out of school was working full time delivering coal and still part time on the farm and I had left home as I couldn't get on with my old man ... By the time I was 17 I working down the pit in a private mine ... Brilliant money but dangerous as fukc ..... I've been working since I was a kid and I have never claimed a penny off the state in my life .......

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Started collecting glasses at 14 in the rugby club loved it till 16 when start apprentiship and been there ever since ! My mother taught us the value of money from a young age my brothers great with money I'm a fecking nightmare lol

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No cows to be milked or trout farms round our way our school holidays ​consisted of shaking down ol man Chaudhri in the paki shops for protection from the non existent skinheads that were out to get him or jumping out on the postman !.......lovely little kids we were :angel:

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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 .??

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I'm only 27 but at 13 had a paper round mon-sat earning £7.50 a week. I thought it was great. Lol.

 

At 15 I got offered to work in the village butchers, 1 hour after school washing pots and cleaning the mincer etc and then 3 hours on a Saturday helping out. I used to get £30 for that and all my mates were jealous. Haha.

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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.

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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. :laugh: 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 ?

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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 ?

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