Beyond Selidor

When I was growing up in England it was common for working class kids like me to have a Saturday job (full day of work), sometimes paired with one week night after school. I qualified to go to an extremely selective grammar school full of kids from very rich families (their parents let them take the test and then if they failed sent them to a public school) so this was outside of most of my school peers' experience.

I had my first job at 10 delivering newspapers in the morning before going to school. By the time I was 13, I was working in a sweet shop. After that came working in a supermarket, spending a summer working with elephants, working at a library and at the local museum. The library and museum were great but my best paying job by far was working as a forecourt attendant at the petrol station in my village. That's my job experience 10-18.