Did you have to do any jobs when you were a kid?
Maybe housework like taking out the rubbish or maybe even a paid job like a paper round?
I did a bit of work at the Cash 'n' Carry warehouse my Dad ran in the late Sixties and early Seventies. He paid me £100 - in theory - and taxed me £99! ha ha. I have the wageslip somewhere. I got £1.
So, did you do chores readers?
Didn't do household chores but I did eventually volunteer to clean my room as my Mum's speed was hazardous to my models! My first job was a saturday job in the local library. Got a days pay for a morning's work!
ReplyDeleteha ha, model protection unit! I love it Kev! So you were a librarian eh. What do you think were popular books back then? Did you get to date stamp them? I always wanted to do that!
DeleteMost popular was romance. Yep, I got to do the stamping and fine people!
ReplyDeleteYou stamped and fined? That's just too much. Did lenders get fined much?
DeleteNo not really. All managed without computers too!
DeleteDid you have to slide those book ticketes in and out of the little sachet on the insode cover? I'm so jealous!
DeleteYep, that was it. All the tickets kept in big wooden trays.
DeleteAuhh, I once got to flick through those trays of tickets. What a fab thing. Almost meditative!
DeleteI am an only child, that had lot of good things and lot of bad ones too.
ReplyDeleteI had always to mown down the lawn, and I hated it with passion. Just going front-back-front-back with lawnmower was really boring for me as a kid (now it is boring too, but people can whistand anything after sometime).
The same with cleaning/dusting my own room and later when I was older the whole house - it was safer for my LEGOs if I had to do that.
And first "job"? Room painting
I sympathise Ran. You worked hard as a kid. Did you get toys as a reward or money? Or nothing? I was the opposite, the youngest of five children. It was like a small army! As for painting rooms, I don't think I did that as a kid but I do recall the wallpaper I had, old timer cars!
ReplyDeleteIt as more like summer job, notd or anythinghing extra hard or something. I simply wanted to get buy my first new console so I "worked" for friends of my family.
DeleteHave you still got your first console Ran?
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