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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"I was a teenage Estate Agent"My first ever job was to help out in a local Estate agents in Great Yarmouth, a job my mother secured me through her professional contacts (I was a big New Order fan and wanted to buy a drum machine). I worked there doing most of the menial filing, photocopying and mailing crap, for the six weeks of the summer holiday before I was due to start college. For this I got paid £80 which at the time seemed like a good deal but in retospect amounts to about 38p per hour. I could have got more pimping my teenage ass on the seafront.
(, Sun 19 Feb 2006, 0:57, Reply)
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