what age did you start work at?

[scifisam]

12 part-time, 14 almost full-time - 30 hours per week.

 

[Griff]

First paid job, doing the knocking. Selling ironing board covers/dusters etc door to door in the school holidays. I was 15. It was a good laugh and did quite well out of it each day.

 

[_angel_]

12 part-time, 14 almost full-time - 30 hours per week.

Surely that's illegal!

 

[Kanda]

Worked on a Market stall part time from 12, full time from 15.

 

[ivebeenhigh]

milk boy £2 an hour i was 12/13

the fastest milk boy in the west (country)

 

[Iam]

Washed cars for our neighbour (a car dealer) from as soon as I could reach (7 or so), various other part time jobs as a kid, full time jobs at 16.

 

[scifisam]

Surely that's illegal!

Kinda - it was against council bye-laws, anyway. But the managers (shoe shop) risked it because they could get away with paying us pennies. At 15 we were allowed to work full time legally in our area.

 

[_angel_]

Kinda - it was against council bye-laws, anyway. But the managers (shoe shop) risked it because they could get away with paying us pennies. At 15 we were allowed to work full time legally in our area.

I didn't realise these things were set locally? Surely not, else there'd still be kids going up chimneys... eh??

I found it really hard to get a job before I got a national insurance number... not too sure how legal it can be to employ an under 16 year old...??

 

[editor]

Part time jobs from 12, full time working as a labourer on motorway construction at 16.

 

[scifisam]

I didn't realise these things were set locally? Surely not, else there'd still be kids going up chimneys... eh??

I found it really hard to get a job before I got a national insurance number... not too sure how legal it can be to employ an under 16 year old...??

I guess there are legal limits, but the specifics are set by local councils. Most of the 15-year-olds I knew worked at Lakeside Shopping centre (especially the girls), all competely above board. Not many of the kids I teach have part-time jobs, though, apart from a few helping out in family businesses.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I worked full time on a seaside rock stall each summer from around 11 years old (10am till 6Pm with a half hour break, six days a week for 35p an hour). Then I got a job delivering milk with my uncle, and collecting the milk money, for which the miserable scrote paid me the princely sum of £10 a week ( for about 12 hours work, a lot of it cycling around in the dark with a money bag). When I was 16 I got my first minimum wage summer job, working split shifts seven days a week at Morelli's ice cream parlour for £1.71 ph, so I made over a hundred quid a week with tips!

I didn't mind at the time, but there is no way in hell I'd let my kid do so much.

 

[mango5]

I did weekends on a travelling funfair from age 13, for several years (April - November). It was great. The last two years were on the air-rifle stall. 15 year old girl faces down saturday-night drunks with a bag full of corks I got £30 quid minimum for the weekend but I'd have done it for free.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Supermarket after school and weekends from 15. I worked throughout school, and full time (36 hours a week) while at university. I have so much surplus energy, and could never sit there studying all the time - my concentration levels are too low.

 

[Fedayn]

I had a paper round 14 onwards. Started work a week after I left school at 16.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Part-time: 14
Full-time: 21

 

[danny la rouge]

I had paper rounds and stuff. But from age 13 I had an evening/weekend job as a petrol pump attendant.

That's how old I am.

 

[Griff]

Mrs.griff was talking about this the other night, and how she had a great time working at Barking Odeon at the age of 13 in 1969. Said she'd average about £12 a week which was pretty good money at the time, let along at 13 years of age.

 

[internetstalker]

fuck knows about 10-11 started working at my Dads Garage washing cars.

age 12-14 I started working on a golf course collecting balls this was a pretty fine job coz i was doing 15-20 houres a week, and at that age was proper loaded. I bought my own Amiga for £400 at age 13

15 worked at my parents coffee shop

16 clened the floors in tesco

17 cleaned the floors in the hospital

19 went full time as a merchandiser

 

[snackhead]

12 clearing rubbish from a stall in the market

 

[twistedAM]

Always had farmwork and stuff in a motorbike shop from 11 til 18 then went to uni.
Didn't have a proper job til i was 25 and that only lasted 3 years.

 

[Edie]

i had a part time job from the age of 10..paper round...

at 12 had 2 part time jobs ..bakery and hairdressers

at 13 had 3 part time jobs .nursing home , hairdressers, bakery

at 14 i had 4 part time jobs ,nursing home ,hairdressers, bakery, pub.

at 15 i went full time .

what about you?

Kinell ice, you sounds like Alan Sugar

 

[butterfly child]

Started work at 17.

Stopped when I was 25.

Have only worked part-time since, and even then sporadically. Haven't worked at all for the last three years, due to studying.

Will be a bit of a shock going back into full time employment after (what will be) 12 years!

 

[Badgers]

Early for paper round but not sure how early?!?

Then had several part time jobs from 13 onwards and have not really stopped