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Any paperboys?
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I do a paper round... and it sucks. But its my only way to get money till I'm old enough to get a proper job, like in a shop or something...
I've decided that I'm gonna stick with it till I'm 16 (less than a year ) and then I'm just not going to tell them I'm giving up and see how long it'll take them to notice while they keep putting money into my account every week for doing nothing
So does anyone else do a round?
I've decided that I'm gonna stick with it till I'm 16 (less than a year ) and then I'm just not going to tell them I'm giving up and see how long it'll take them to notice while they keep putting money into my account every week for doing nothing
So does anyone else do a round?
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p.s is there any future in being a paperboy?
p.p.s - you probvably shouyldn't answer that :P
Where do they get taken?
Sorry, but i think this is evidence of a media induced paranoia, to the extent where it stops people running their lives.
Are you insane?
I did a paper round for 4 long years and it was crap. The tips were the only saving grace, but in general it was completely crap. Far too cold in the winter, spider webs in the summer, and no lie ins. Ever.
no
i just liked it it was good and you got paid for it which is even better. and my tips were really good. i had a paper round for 4 yrs aswell. i had a morning and afternoon one and then 3 rounds on sunday. then i stopped doing that and started delievering papers for some one else and just did afternoons and no sundays
Lol, wonder if there are any 'senior paperboys' ie: 30+
I want any job, im 15, there are just no jobs availanle. At all! Help me, help me, help me!!
Did you have a birthday between posts?
Once a bloke came out of his house (not at Christmas) and said 'my wife said you looked miserable the other day so I thought this would cheer you up' and gave me a tenner.
I also met 2 boyfriends while doing my paper round.
And there was an old man who I used to do little jobs for like taking his rubbish out and he gave me birthday presents and cake.
Never will
Why not ?
its where little peeps like me go round peoples houses in our village and drop off dvds and videos.
I think it would be worth it, as so many people are lazy. Do you know how i could copyright this idea?
and will they give me a job if i tell them about my idea?
who knows?
maybe if i cant get a job i can be a cat burgalar, jumping from bungalow roof to bungalow roof, stealing chimney pots hehehe.
oh, not that theres any point apart from my own twisted satisfaction, www.toilet.com is a funny website, not finished i dont think yet tho. Blonde jokes r funny (no offense to blondes )
yeah I've been in the paper boy industry myself...took me a few months to get tired of bein mugged off by the people (tenner a week for about 500 papers:eek2:...local papers lol)
then i started dumping them
"just this once...the weathers shit and i've got homework to do"
"in a few weeks these would have rotted away"
then one day i looked down the quarry i'd been throwing them down and realised that i'd got a small forests worth of paper stashed away .
when i have to clear out the garage or something i still find the odd paper tucked away
there were some perks though;
i remember "forgettin" to put the hot chocolate sachets into the papers on more than one occasion lol
(edited because of typos)
In December 1995, one of the shops got back to me and offered a morning round. It was Monday to Saturday, £7 a week for roughly 20 newspapers in each daily round. I had to be in the shop for 7am on weekdays, and 7:45 on the Saturday.
The money wasn't great, but it was by far the most I was ever getting at that time. I splashed it out mainly on music CDs.
In 1997 aged 19, I was given a shop job at the same place and hung onto the paper round as well! This was before the days of the legal minimum wage, so I was only £2 an hour. My home village is very working class. I did 6 hours in the shop per week, plus the £7/week paper round.
In '99, the minimum wage came in and that took up to £3/hour. I was only working in the holidays then, because I was at university. In the Millenium, the shop changed hands so I couldn't go back.
Apparently even now, the wage for the old paper round I used to do has only gone up £1 to since my start in 1995.
I hated it. I didn't get tips at Christmas. I had an old woman running down the street after me yelling 'paper boy' in a high pitched voice. I am a girl. I have long hair. I do not appreciate being called 'boy'. From that day onwards I started getting angry and slack with it, it was an afternoon round and I spent all Wednesday night folding leaflets and then delievered about three quarters of the 220 papers the next day. The rest got chucked in someone dustbin. On several occassions I did none. In the end my Dad realised and made me give it up. It only paid £5-25 flat rate and about 80p per set of leaflets anyway, so I did the amount of work I thought I was being paid for!!
Isn't it unfair that we're not allowed to get a decent job yet?! It annoys me so much, espesh as my parents expect me to pay for everything myself including almost £200 worth of Christmas. grrrr!!
i also "forgot" to put them in the papers...and i "accidentally" shook the bag repeatedly so some of the ones i had put in fell out.
still have a load of em left!
Duffy