Summer jobs

Ruu_Old

What was your summer job as a young 'un? Well as a country boy, there was a farm down the road from us and the owner had us pick stones across about 10 acres! That is when time stood still and you would end up coming home hunch backed.

gucci

foting turf would be something similar, think its great fun foir the first summer then you realise its slavery!!
was only talking about this to my girlfriend yesterday, i was sure when i was small that i would spent a summer selling wexford strawberries as i thought that was a right of passage for the youth of ireland....but alas it was never meant to be!!

petes

Never had a summer job. I did help out on "the bog" with the turf.

TerrorFirmer

Cleaning boats where I accidently filled a cruiser with water in the diesel tank. Oops.

c - 13

Working in a Garden Centre/Landscaping Company.
Where else would you let a 14 year old operate heavy machinery

Jimoslimos

One of my first was cleaning pots and pans in Mosney during summer holidays. Absolutely disgusting. I remember feeling my stomach retching from the stink when I started, it was also impossible to clean yourself fully from the grease that would build up on your body and hair. Ughhh...Still makes me shudder to this day. For all this I was paid the princely sum of £1.70 p/h, though I do remember my excitement when I got moved to one of the amusements (swan boats I think) and my wages shot up to £2.00p/h woohooo!

Kolodny

For a couple if summers I worked in some stables outside my home town, mucking out, feeding etc. Didn't get paid but got free horseriding lessons in exchange for all my hard work. It was most enjoyable at the time, but I can't imagine doing something like that now - "what do you mean, you're not going to pay me?!"

Rockee

Packing lettuce here in my good ol home of Rush. Eastern Europeans do all that now!!!

trout

for the princely sum of 11 punts a night, i got to plunge my bare hands into barrels of ice water and remove chunks of frozen prawns, separating them into individual prawns, then shelling, topping and tailing the ugly alien lookin' little bastids for eight hours at a time

rubber gloves were useless, as the water got inside them, and you couldn't peel the prawns apart ... i hate prawns ... 15 years later and i can still smell them!:mad:

Heisenberg.

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trilo

petes wrote:

Never had a summer job. I did help out on "the bog" with the turf.

Pah! The bog. Worked on the bog for a summer when i was about 13, got paid 20 pound for the honours... never did it again.

Vegeta

HavoK wrote:

Cleaning boats where I accidently filled a cruiser with water in the diesel tank. Oops.

cool i cleaned boats too. I also worked in a kitchen once cleaning pots and pans and didn't last long as the grease and disgustingness overpowered me

petes

trilo wrote:

Pah! The bog. Worked on the bog for a summer when i was about 13, got paid 20 pound for the honours... never did it again.

It was a bitch.

SpitfireIV

Delivering them annoying 'take away', or 'insurance deal' leaflets in my neighbourhood, god I hated that so much, and when I think of it, 3/4 days work at a time and I'd get £20 into my hand! Hmm, I blew it all on model airplane kits anyway.........I was addicted

trilo

petes wrote:

It was a bitch.

What was worse about it..oh ya the cuts on the hands, the pain of the poor body and the feicin annoyance of turning the turf over, putting them into triangles and then into bigger piles, bagging them and then loading them onto the trailer, oh yes and unloading them. I suppose it was onyl four plots, so it could have been worse.

One hairylarious memory i have, was piling a load of mud on my face thinking i was doing a great thing for my skin....mud mask i think not! Thank god i'm a little bit wiser now.

petes

I think we had four or five plots, but they were lengthy buggers. Bagging the turf and the wheeling them up from the bottom of the plot was the worst.

The feckin ants pissed me off too.

kippy

Helped out with the hay and turf at home, my first paying summer job was fishing golfballs out of the river on the golfcourse near home and selling the golf balls back to the golfers. Made a nice bit outta that.
After that brief spell of self employment I worked in one of the local bars/nightclubs for the next four summers.

Mrs. MacGyver

working in credit control dept of a quarry

Catari Jaguar

I delivered the Wicklow Times, had to fold them all and carry in a massive white shoulder bag. Took me so long to do it, and my Mam would make me go out and delievr em at like 9 o clock at night if I didnt have it done. Lousy job. i got 4 pounds for it, which is slave wage, but I could afford a "Shout" magazine and some sweets. I was about 12/13 at the time. My lil bro took over then and he got 6 pounds! Sexist fecks!

sonic juice

Strawberry picking,lasted a week then I quit.

fillmore jive

i used to deliver papers for the wicklow times. it was quality! i got paid a good bit, but at the same time any money is a good bit when your 13.

John Mason

i had the best summer job. i worked on bray seafront in a little shop selling ice cream cones and candy floss, i got to know all the boys who working the arcade and used to get free goes on the waltzer and hang out with the cool security men that everyone wanted to know