Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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Worth it?When i was 16 i got a job doing filing for peoplesphone. I got paid £3.10 an hour to spend all day filing in an office where people were doing telesales all day so no-one spoke to each other and i'd get around 10 papercuts a day. It took me 1 hour to get to the office and my travel cost £9 a day. So the first 4 hours a day covered my travel cost and lunch and then the next three hours were mine to keep! Wow - I used to leave the house at 7am and get back at 17:30 all for the princely sum of £9 a day!! Then after a week, there was two much to do so they employed a 21 year old who got £6.50 an hour!!! I couldn't f**King believe it. Quit the next day - the silver lining was that i got a job with one2one where they paid me £21 an hour to build computers on a sunday!! That's twice what i get now 10 years later!
(, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 14:23, Reply)
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