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Post by cornishharry on May 20, 2019 13:20:33 GMT
met two blokes in a cafe,they said they were looking for crew on a cable laying ship, i asked and got offered a job as a stoker, be on the mayflower steps at 9 am. did one trip with them and then joined the R.N.twenty three years later i left
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 13:27:39 GMT
I dont see kids these days lieing about their age to get a morning paper round . Fuck they were grim , specialy sunday with the suppliments ! 7 days a week all weathers .
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 20, 2019 13:38:50 GMT
I dont see kids these days lieing about their age to get a morning paper round . Fuck they were grim , specialy sunday with the suppliments ! 7 days a week all weathers . I still have a mark on my leg where I toppled off my bike going round a corner because the Sunday papers were so heavy  Lol |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 13:40:26 GMT
Thankfully I am only mentaly scared, there were some fearsome dogs too !
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 20, 2019 13:40:46 GMT
met two blokes in a cafe,they said they were looking for crew on a cable laying ship, i asked and got offered a job as a stoker, be on the mayflower steps at 9 am. did one trip with them and then joined the R.N.twenty three years later i left We were shown around a submarine at the museum in Gosport by a guy with pretty much the exact same story, Harry, although I think he might have been fourteen when he joined up! His Dad shook his hand and said good luck and his mum made him some sandwiches So different now, if two blokes started talking to a teenage boy now everyone would assume they were grooming them to be abused. It's sad really. |
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Post by cornishharry on May 20, 2019 14:18:37 GMT
yeah tis sad, can remember when a sprog going out for the day with mates and being told, if you get any problems ask an adult for help. totally opposite today
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Post by cricket on May 21, 2019 1:16:59 GMT
i left just before 16 then straight into dairy work soon discovered the old farmer had an unhealthy interest in young dairy maids and left to be a full time groom.Pay was low but I got to ride big posh horses all day.Then, any job you fancied you could get into.No tv,no internet ,no fear of getting nuked or having no job.Politics was on the radio or in the papers if you were interested,I wasnt.I cant remember any of the big pressures or uncertainty youngsters nowadays seem driven by.
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 21, 2019 4:22:51 GMT
i left just before 16 then straight into dairy work soon discovered the old farmer had an unhealthy interest in young dairy maids and left to be a full time groom.Pay was low but I got to ride big posh horses all day.Then, any job you fancied you could get into.No tv,no internet ,no fear of getting nuked or having no job.Politics was on the radio or in the papers if you were interested,I wasnt.I cant remember any of the big pressures or uncertainty youngsters nowadays seem driven by. Yes I agree with all of that, Cricket, people talk about kids today being pampered and mollycoddled but I think they have a whole world of pressure on their shoulders that we just didn't have. Carers advice wasn't a big thing in school because you could get a job without any training or qualifications and, whilst it might not have paid a fortune, a lot of that sort of work either came with accommodation or you could just rent a room somewhere and get on with it. I think in a lot of ways we had a better time of it. My friends kids don't seem happy for the most part, they're under constant pressure at school and college and it's much harder to get a Saturday job or work in the holidays now if you're under 16. Then you've got the issues of a lot of what they learn in school not being that practical - the lady in the cafe (where the lad wasn't allowed to take the money from me) said she'd still have to check the bill even if he could take the cash because most of the kids she employs can't add up. Yet one of my first Saturday jobs was in a cake shop where you totted it up in your head as you took the order and that was how they tested you for the job. It was the same in pubs I worked in - one of them didn't even have a till, just a wooden change tray to keep the coins separate and you put the notes underneath. I don't think we've done kids a lot of favours with the whole technology drive, I think we were lucky to get chucked out the house all day to go and play |
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Post by givingitsomethought on May 21, 2019 4:26:06 GMT
yeah tis sad, can remember when a sprog going out for the day with mates and being told, if you get any problems ask an adult for help. totally opposite today Yes, exactly that, I don't think we've made kids safer by making them think all adults are dangerous. Most kids are abused by people they know, sad but true, and although the papers are full of horror stories I think most people are still decent enough that if a kid was lost or something they'd help them (or at least I hope that's the case!). One thing that's nice about where I live is that the kids do all play outside and they're so sweet and friendly, they quite often come and knock on the door just for a chat. One of them needed to borrow the phone to ring his mum at work because his mobile didn't have any credit and I gave him my landline to use, he'd never seen one! Bless him, he didn't have a clue what to do with it, I had to show him, it did make me smile |
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Post by wanderingwill on May 21, 2019 12:43:50 GMT
oh shit your all making me feel old now..i started working in 1965 as a apprentice radio and television engineer my first wage packet was
£2 16 shillings
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 14:28:31 GMT
Haha. I bought a packet of spaghetti for 20p, and my sister said, "That's eight shillings you know". 😂
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Post by VanWoman84 on May 21, 2019 16:16:09 GMT
Happily I'm not old enough to think in shillings!
Wasn't it 5p to the shilling though?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 16:18:57 GMT
You are right, Vannie. I shall tell her that her maths is worse than mine. 😁
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Post by wanderingwill on May 21, 2019 17:21:20 GMT
12 old pence in a shilling
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 17:58:43 GMT
Just stop now, WW, before we move onto groats and farthings! 😂😂😂
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Lol
