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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Richie London on 03 June 2008, 21:32:30
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paperound??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7431224.stm
i wouldnt be happy my boy doing one where he lived to be honest,
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As a kid I had 4 at once !!! ...
weekday mornings, weekday evenings, Saturday sports, sunday morning
:)
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I had a paper round and washed neighbours cars on a saturday, so i could buy Pringle jumpers, Ben Sherman Shirts, Farah trousers etc as mum and dad wouldn't ::)
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Nope my mother used to pay me to do all the jobs round the house it was safer.
and slave labour!!!! :(
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i had 3, morning, evening and sundays, and the, like Loo Knee i used to wash cars n a saturday and sunday....
I was loaded, i was easily netting £50 a week at 14......easy money as far as i was concerned, all my mates were broke so i would lend them money, and the ones i didn't like so much i would charge interest ;D
was gutted when i was 16 and started on a YTS scheme on £27.50 a week, a bloody pay cut and more hours, now that was slave labour >:(
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I don't think i would let are girls do a paper round now though it really isn't safe anymore >:(
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I had paper rounds as a kid, for a while I was a Butchers boy, one of those black bikes with a little wheel at the front and a basket on it, I was 12. Used to get paid £1.0.0. and make about 7/6 in tips, then we moved, back to paper rounds, only paid 12/6 so used to do sunday mornings as well for an extra 5/-
Happy days. ;D ;D ;D
Don't even talk about kids today working, or not, too overprotected and expect to get everything for nothing :(
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I don't think i would let are girls do a paper round now though it really isn't safe anymore >:(
I only ever knew of paper boys never any girls that I met.
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Used to deliver prescriptions for the local chemist to the old 'uns that could not get in to uplift them.
Imagine the chaos of a 14 year old lad these days getting to grips with some of the fantastical concoctions of sleeping tabs and assorted amphets etc that are on the go with the street knowledge that now abounds... Don't think it happens now, somehow....
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Used to deliver prescriptions for the local chemist to the old 'uns that could not get in to uplift them.
Imagine the chaos of a 14 year old lad these days getting to grips with some of the fantastical concoctions of sleeping tabs and assorted amphets etc that are on the go with the street knowledge that now abounds... Don't think it happens now, somehow....
they are called dealers nowadays. ;D
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Yep, had a morning and an evening paper round.
Also used to bottle up and do odd jobs at the local Hotel followed later by glass collecting in an evening. Also used to decorate the rooms during the holiday periods.
It was good to have cash and save up to buy things, taught you the value of money.
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Yep, i had 2.
Its a sad world now, when we don't want our kids too do one for fear of there safety >:(
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I never had a paper round, but worked in the local supermarket 2 evenings a week (late night opening) plus Saturdays from the age of 14.
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I had a dog walking round, easier, no early mornings and earned more :D
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Oh, and I used to collect golf balls from the Church graveyard (next to a golf course), then flog em back to the golfers ;D
Happy days ::)
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I had a paper round and washed neighbours cars on a saturday, so i could buy Pringle jumpers, Ben Sherman Shirts, Farah trousers etc as mum and dad wouldn't ::)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
What a waste
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I used to mow lawns
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I had a paper round. I lasted about 4 weeks. Didn't like the walking, didn't like the stair climbing, didn't like the heavy bag, but most of all I didn't like the early mornings.
My son had a paper round for a few years - I tried to pay him to stop, because I thought he was being exploited - 50p a day for at least an hour's work. He carried on, though. The only time I absolutely forbade him do the round was when we had a lot of snow and ice - I didn't think it would be safe on a push bike.
People had their papers delivered by Volvo 960 Estate that day :)
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I started to do an evening paper round, and working behind a newsagents counter from the age of 12 (strictly speaking against the by-laws of that district then and definately against them now). I then continued to be a paper girl doing morning rounds, then marking-up, and final also working behind the retail counter after school/ at holidays.
When I left school at 15 (without any paper qualifications) I went into permanent employment with the newsagents company I had been working for whilst still at school, and 28 years later left them after I had risen through the management structure to be a Divisional Manager responsible for 186 branches. But I never did, and still have not now, stopped missing doing a paper round. The early mornings are a lovely time to be out regardless of the weather! :y
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Ive told my twins there both getting paper rounds soon....they didnt seem very impressed and just said ""dadda dadda...."" and walked off. ;D
Flaming kids of today.....no respect for there parents. ;D
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why work when they get it for doing break all. i had paper round, milk round, and new doc martins at the end of it :) :)
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richierich
do you remember dillons round the corner from you
cos i worked there for about 5 yrs
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I had a paper round, but got the sack. No joke, really, I did!! ;D
Then I got a job in a fishmongers for a Saturday job, stinky trainers ahoy!
I've always been rubbish at getting up, thats why I started my own business, now I stop work/go to bed at about 3am, get up at 10 (ish)!
Only a few hrs left!
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Paper round, milk round, golf caddie & helped the old boy who chopped & delivered logs. I had a B/W portable telly & a Ferguson radio/cassette in my room.
I hate sounding like my Dad but today's youth want too much for nothing. Still passed my O levels. (except maths)!!!!!
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richierich
do you remember dillons round the corner from you
cos i worked there for about 5 yrs
i remember it yeah, i used to go in there a lot,you must remember john and kev mcglyn, des smith,the harlings, mcglyns they lived opposite in willet close, :y