I thought I would go against the theme of back breaking paper rounds...
I did a paper round for about 4 year, and it was excellent.
about 30ish papers (our local rag, so inbetween a broadsheet and the sun) a few minutes bike ride from my house every morning.
The best bit was the fact that since I worked directly from the paper company (the van dropped off my bundle of papers at my house every morning) I got to go round every house once a week and collect the money due, then pass on the required amount. So lots of people paying me £2.50 for the week instead of £2.35 or whatever, which adds up when you get to keep any tips to yourself - usually about £25 a week

The best bit was christmas, one year I made something like £120 worth of tips in the week before christmas, plus a few selection boxes and stuff nice old ladies gave me, and a rather cool wallet from another house

There was also the evening rounds, similar to the above, but we had to go round to a house (namely the ladie who ran our area) and collect the papers, which usually ended with me and a few friends pissing about for ages before actually doing anything, and the delight of the local loonie coming past every so often and talking at us - he would stand and talk about utter shite, completely unconcerned by nobody payign him any attention or the lady who lived there shouting at him to piss off

I gave it up after they started getting everyone to pay via direct debit instead of me collecting the money, so no tips or anythign over the standard pay. except the last few weeks before they chenged when I nicely reminded the customers how it was changing and got a few farewell tips from these people I had been seeing every week for the last few years. Excellent

Now I work in the photo lab in Boots, which is cool too, and definately miles better than working in Asda or something

back breaking work? I will leave that to someone else if i can...

David
(442, Mon 20 Feb 2006, 11:36, Reply)