Beyond Selidor

All the work I was describing that I did and that the other kids at my school did was along those lines (the bakery job, for example, was from 7am-4pm every Saturday, plus similar hours every weekday for two weeks leading up to Easter and three weeks leading up to Christmas).

The class divide in expectations around work you describe is really interesting, and helps put something into context for me that I always found strange when I was a postgraduate student at Cambridge: the fact that a lot of the British students I met had never had a job, and were essentially preparing to move from a life of full-time education into a 'white collar' graduate job after finishing undergrad or master's degrees. In Australia, most people from a similar background would have had part-time jobs since secondary school, and almost certainly would have worked while they were university students, usually from somewhere between 10-20 hours per week in the latter case.

I still see kids delivering newspapers on bikes around here, although they look to be more in the 14-16-year-old age range, rather than being ten years old! You certainly worked in a lot of places.