The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[Lydart]

I'm only 18 on the inside though (she dreams......)

I certainly feel around 18 at times, but having a daughter of 36 (groan !) for decency sake I admit to being around 55-ish ... only don't look at my birth certificate ! 

I did potato picking once as a student, into buckets the hard way  ... can feel the back ache now ... and then I did it again about ten years ago, but riding on the back of a machine with 3 other women, throwing off the clods and rotten potatoes ... and got aching legs trying to keep balanced !   Its hard work, whichever way you do it !

[Pels.]

We had to potato pick into wire baskets .. fill them up whilst on our knees and then wait for someone [an Ag Lab!] to pick up the basket and tip it into the trailer! 

Very well paid employment too if I remember rightly! 

[Gadget]

Very well paid employment too if I remember rightly!

It would have been in your day, young thing 

[ozlady]

I went blackcurrant picking in Hereford. The wasps were enough to drive you crazy. My first "real" employment was a Saturday job in Woolworth's. I used to get 15bob!

[Gadget]

75p 

[Pels.]

I'm sure I got 25 shillings for my spud bashing - real work! 

[Gadget]

£1.25

I could get a job doing this 

PS - just no one come up with farthings and hapennies and groats 

[Ecneps]

I'm sure I got 25 shillings for my spud bashing - real work! 

I can assure you that a Saturday job in Woolies was real work, I got 15s/9d (work that one out Gadget) for one full day

I was on the grocery counter, had to stand all day, don't remember a teabreak, just 1/2hr for lunch, had to wear a huge white wrap-over overall, shelves were behind us all down one side of the store, so no protection from the public, and I seemed to spend most of my time going up & down to the store-room to replenish stocks, carting heavy tins about.
I'm tired just thinking about it
 

[Gadget]

75 + 2.5 +1.25 = 78.75p

I think