Tri-ang & Kikilookylikey - I went to Aidans too!
You find Ex Durham people everywhere, it's like a plague...

I got a paper round when I was a kid for a good few months, weekdays only and only one kind of paper so I could cope with it. £6 a week wasn't bad and I saved up and bought a gameboy. BEst thing was my dad made me quit when the summer holidays came around because they couldn't palm me off on relatives. So he gave me £5 a week instead.

Years later i got the privaleage of working in a vinegar factory. Basically you stank, burned your hand on the vinegar bottles and got paid £3 an hour for the privelage.

My favourite 'task' was placing those little bits of paper you get next to bottles when they are packaged as 12's in the cardboard tray next to the bottles before they were cling wrapped. This wasn't that taxing but as you burned the back of your hand slightly with each one you tucked in it required a surprising amount of willpower.

Oh and the heinz special vinegar came out of the same vat as the cheapo stores own brand stuff, make of that what you will...
( NLi10 lurker - 10yrs & counting..., Mon 20 Feb 2006, 15:00, Reply)