Jobs, I've done them all...
I had a paper round when I was 13 delivering our nasty free paper. 2p a paper and 170 of them, do the maths. There was also extra money if I inserted leaflets which used to take hours at home before I went. Then they decided to make the "Property" section of the paper separate, and paid us an extra ½p per paper. Sod it, I just stuck them inside the papers, and because most of the houses were Council Tenants they just threw that bit away, so I just stopped putting it in. I eventually quit because one old lady had a cat flap in the door which her dog used to stick its head out and try to bite me.

Those of you who think their bosses treat them like Mushrooms (kept in the dark, fed on bulls**t) have obviously never worked on a mushroom farm. Luckily I liked mushrooms but one poor girl hated them and alays looked like she was about to be sick. It was about 10 miles away and I got £1.85 an hour on Saturdays and £2.71 on Sundays. Wow!

Then I worked in a carpet shop for a whole £1.50 an hour, but no mushrooms, just lifting heavy rolls of carpet all day, and nearly passing out from the fumes of the adhesives.

Then last Christmas I went busking, played some carols on my accordion in Bedford town centre, got about £100 for 2½ hours - I make that about £40 an hour. Jobs? Who needs 'em?
( Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 13:36, Reply)