bertiesboro
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milk round 7 mornings a week for £1,50
What was your first job?
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Slipperutb01
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Paper round caygals low grange and bit of high grange 3.95 a week mornings and evenings Sundays were a killer
The_Lizards_Jumpers
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Ignoring paper rounds, it was a Saturday job at Binns.
Worked mainly on TV's, the loading bay and fragrances, but did some stints in the menswear department. Got my best mate a job there too, and one day someone in menswear had this great idea......
My mate and I would put some of the best designer clothes that Binns sold at the time (it was the early 90's when they had some decent brands) and walk around town. If anyone asked us "where did you get your clothes" then we were to escort them to the shop and help them select some schmutter for themselves, and take payment etc.
Funnily enough no one in the backroom of Rumpoles, where we spent the afternoon drinking cider and playing pool, asked us where we got our Calvin Klein shirts or YSL trousers from.
Worked mainly on TV's, the loading bay and fragrances, but did some stints in the menswear department. Got my best mate a job there too, and one day someone in menswear had this great idea......
My mate and I would put some of the best designer clothes that Binns sold at the time (it was the early 90's when they had some decent brands) and walk around town. If anyone asked us "where did you get your clothes" then we were to escort them to the shop and help them select some schmutter for themselves, and take payment etc.
Funnily enough no one in the backroom of Rumpoles, where we spent the afternoon drinking cider and playing pool, asked us where we got our Calvin Klein shirts or YSL trousers from.
Fat_Dragon
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Programme seller at the Riverside 
Was the 1996/1997 season with Rav Emerson and the little fella.
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Was the 1996/1997 season with Rav Emerson and the little fella.
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steve0
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Student nurse. First shift patient wet bed then did the longest steadiest fart I ever heard right in my face as I was cleaning him up. Thought there was a leaking oxygen pipe. When the smell hit me I nearly walked there and then. Stuck it out though- 40 years in the NHS this year
Lemmy_kilmister
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Cleveland County Council delivering caretaker and kitchen supplies to all the schools across the area.
BlindBoyGrunt
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Sammysmiths
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Left school in July 88, I was in the RAF by September. Spent 18 years as an aircraft technician .
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret
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They don't have a website. They're called walkers midshire. You thinking of going into sausages?
fella
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They don't have a website. They're called walkers midshire. You thinking of going into sausages?
You don't choose the sausage life, the sausage life chooses you.
BlindBoyGrunt
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It was a poorly executed joke. Sausage/Link.They don't have a website. They're called walkers midshire. You thinking of going into sausages?
Pak_Doo_Ik
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Safeway shelf stacking, for the first 5 years it was amazing (especially the Christmas parties)
Norfolkred1
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Started off doing sewing machine repairs at Meynell's on Southfield road.
BoroinBuxton
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I got a Pools round just after I left school, and did it for 2 years while I did my A-Levels.
Thursday nights, 2 hours, deliver the coupons + cheque for the value to Brookfield that night, rain or shine.
It started at £5 a time (via commission) round was based in Newport + the early part of Acklam Rd. Lovely people, some real characters- lots of tips, tea and cake- whisky at XMAS
Then in 1979....... A lady won a substantial (ish) amount of money- I think it was about £2000. She was Turkish and seemed to be some sort of matriach of the NE Turkish community. So I was deemed lucky. All of a sudden that entire Turkish community lumped on with her. She gave me £200 as part of her win, which was amazing and generous. I even remember her name I finished up earning £45+ for 2 hours work, thanks to the increased commission, which cheesed some of my apprentice mates off big time. There were a couple of other minor wins.
Some seriously happy memories of those times
Thursday nights, 2 hours, deliver the coupons + cheque for the value to Brookfield that night, rain or shine.
It started at £5 a time (via commission) round was based in Newport + the early part of Acklam Rd. Lovely people, some real characters- lots of tips, tea and cake- whisky at XMAS
Then in 1979....... A lady won a substantial (ish) amount of money- I think it was about £2000. She was Turkish and seemed to be some sort of matriach of the NE Turkish community. So I was deemed lucky. All of a sudden that entire Turkish community lumped on with her. She gave me £200 as part of her win, which was amazing and generous. I even remember her name
I finished up earning £45+ for 2 hours work, thanks to the increased commission, which cheesed some of my apprentice mates off big time. There were a couple of other minor wins. Some seriously happy memories of those times
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret
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Oh I get it.It was a poorly executed joke. Sausage/Link.
weirdly the sausages I was making didn't come in links. You had to tie one end to the other so they were a circle. Don't know where they sold them cos I've never seen sausages like that since.