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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:30 AM |
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Paper rounds
A reply to Donut's thread about being 40 got me thinking. Our local paper shop, as any worth it's salt will, delivers papers to the houses
around the village. There has more than once been a sign in the window asking for people to deliver the papers and there's no shortage of
kids living here. ASKING for people to deliver the papers!
When I was of paper round age you had to fight tooth and nail for one and the shop never had to to stoop so low as to have to advertise for
them! I did various rounds for four years, starting with mornings and going to evenings when I decided getting up early wasn't my thing, plus
I'm sure my employer was infringing the law as we had to do seven days a week?
I digress, are kids now too bone idle to earn money? Are parents daft enough to geive them money fer nowt? Penny for your thoughts if you've
any.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:35 AM |
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Our local paper shop at home is always looking for paperboys as well.
I never had a paper round when I was younger, but was certainly never given money either. Any money I got was earnt through doing chores, basically no
chores, no money. Simple as that.
Now I just borrow money to stay at uni...oh and build my car 
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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muzchap
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:49 AM |
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I also had to work 7 days a week as a Paperboy.
I'm 30 this year, so would have been 15 years ago... I ended up earning £10 week - as I opended the shop up, sorted the papers for all the other
paperboys/girls.
I started with the WORST round in the shop and gradualy cherry picked my way to the easiest
I do think kids are too lazy now! Why else would they be getting so fat????
I used to eat just as much crap as them - but all day playing football/cricket/biking around soon burnt it off 
Just my opinion
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jos
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:57 AM |
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I too used to do paperrounds, two of them infact. Both in the mornings, one of them was the dreaded Sunday moring big thick mut** ****ers which was a
double trip job.
Nowadays our sunday paper is delivered by one of the shop assistants who drives around to deliver the papers, the shop is only 5 minutes slow walk
away and he has the papers on his passenger seat next to him between drops.
Sometimes the local free paper is delivered by paperboys who are driven around in their mum or dads cars even when the light is very good - so thats
not an excuse they can use.
.: Motorsport / motor racing circuit / track wall art Apex Traxs :.
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andyharding
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:05 AM |
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quote:
I digress, are kids now too bone idle to earn money? Are parents daft enough to geive them money fer nowt? Penny for your thoughts if
you've any.
Yes.
Yes.
Lazy student bums!
Are you a Mac user or a retard?
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fesycresy
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:41 AM |
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Get with the real world lads, who wants to do a paper round these days ?
They sell drugs and make a poo load more money.
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:50 AM |
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i helped a Mate do the free paper round. It was simp[ly impossible to get a round of your own. The waiting list would have meant i would still have to
wait 12 years from now - and im 35 this year! It was always a fight to get the best side of the road. Penny a paper unless there was loads of pages
where it went up to 1.5p. Big money in those days.
Best job i had was on the Saturday Fruit and Veg Market. It was quite a big one. Turn up at 7am and unload wagon. One on back of wagon and 2 on floor.
Throwing sacks of potatoes at each other in a chain to unload as quick as poss - that certainly woke you up fast! It was hard work but well worth it.
I really enjoyed that job. Local Indians used to buy a few sacks for the take aways so we used to carry them up - better than flogging serving the
hoards!!
Happy memories.
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James
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:50 AM |
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I delivered on Sundays only for years!
Applied at 12 to get on the loooong list and started just after my 13th birthday.
As others have said, started with a round bloody miles away and as it was Sundays had 2 or 3 bags stuffed to overflowing and sometimes so heavy I
couldn't walk with them!
Worked my way up and was soon starting at 5.30AM to pack the rounds for the other rounds. Ended up I was managing the shop from 5.30AM till 8PM and
had two staff working for me and post office!
27 now so started there 14 years ago. I remember then that my Mum wasn't keen for me to do it as various friends of hers kept on about how they
had to deliver for their kids whenever they couldn't be bothered!
So no, it's not all just kids these days. 14 years ago some couldn't be bothered either.
I *always* did mine myself but I remember then people turning up with Dad driving to help them! 
But that was alright with me- just meant I assigned them the far away/long rounds so that my mates on their bikes were better off!
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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ayoungman
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 11:58 AM |
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My 14 year old son does a round. gets one day off a year ! Christmas day !
He earns £100 a month for the pleasure !
he spends his dosh on RC SAVAGE TRUCKS mostly !
And NO, I don't give them pocket money !
"just like that !"
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 12:32 PM |
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I only did a Sunday run as well and that was before the thick supplement jobbies etc. The bonus was that a lot of the old dearies paid the paper boy
for the weeks papers on a sunday. You had to handle the money as well and of course if you had no change you usually got a tip up to the nearest
pound and the more folk that tipped you up to the nearset pound the less change you had for the next house etc. etc.
Are todays kids lazy probably not. We as parents are to generous and lets face it would you want your kids collecting paper round money these days. I
think not, but it is sad as here we are all reminiscing (sp) about the good old days so it wasn't much of a hardship as yes we were all fitter
and thiner.
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James
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 12:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
We as parents are to generous and lets face it would you want your kids collecting paper round money these days. I think not, but it is sad as here
we are all reminiscing (sp) about the good old days so it wasn't much of a hardship as yes we were all fitter and thiner.
If I had children then I would have no problem whatsoever with them doing Sunday rounds.
What on earth is there to worry about?
I wouldn't be so keen on a daily as I wouldn't want them knackered before school.
Cheers,
James
EDIT: Okay, being run-over is one reason, but early on a Sunday morning there's not exactly a lot of traffic!
[Edited on 18/1/06 by James]
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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DarrenW
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 12:46 PM |
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I think he was referring to the money collecting side of the sunday round.
£100/month at 14yr old Bloody hell, that sounds canny. We did about 250 houses every Wednesday for £2.50 between us!
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 12:48 PM |
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I meant collecting the money from customers James. It prob doesnt happen anymore but you wouldn't want your kids being an easy target for the
sleazy cowardly junkie barstewards.
Darren was faster in replying.
[Edited on 18/1/06 by omega 24 v6]
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James
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 01:13 PM |
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Oh ok, maybe not such a problem in Guildford!
As it happens though, my shop used to (and still does) send a bill put through the door by the paper boy. You then pay the shop direct so no money
involved with the paper boy.
I know this as we still have the paper delivered by the same shop I used to work for. Except now, the dumb lazy f^%ker leaves it on the step in the
rain instead of putting it through.
In my day you (rightly as it's a burglary hazard) got a rollocking if it was left on the step!
Cheers,
James
Thinking about your point though, what junkie is gonna be up at 7AM to rob them. And if it's the house owner.... it's gonna be pretty easy
to catch someone who robs on their own doorstep!!!!
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 04:01 PM |
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my young pup works at the hotel getting twenty five quid a night (2 nights aweek) collecting glasses..............She has her mum to keep an eye on
her.....cause she runs the bar.
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Messenjah
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 04:34 PM |
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i did 3 paper rounds every morning while the shop was looking for people to pick up the extra cash was £45 a week for an hours work every weekday
morning almost £10 an hour.
i had a paper round from 13 to 15 then stopped because i was staying up later and getting up early for the paper round so was permenantly tired and
kept falling asleep at school
but then i got a saturday job at a landrover garage so it balanced out
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Peteff
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 04:36 PM |
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I used to work at a woodyard when I was at school, chopping and bagging sticks and Friday evening and Saturday morning on the van delivering them.
People still used coal in those days . I used to dream of having a paper round but I couldn't get one as they were all taken. You had to wait
for someone to get a real job before one came up. A bloke I worked with later on used to do a paper round on his way to work, he'd always done
it and it was his beer and holiday money.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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ayoungman
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 05:39 PM |
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You would fall off yer chair if I told how much he got in tips before Christmas !
"just like that !"
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tri
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 06:30 PM |
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I work in a paper shop in the mornings we make the papers up give them a drop off 1/2 way round there small runs and they get paid very well but yet
we still have lots of runs free with no one wanting them it couldn't be any easier for them and most of the people that do them just now get
driven around by there mums or dads
Tri
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I love speed :-P
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 07:20 PM |
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well, people my age dont need to work because if they go to collage they get £30 a week for staying on, and £100 bonus 3 times a year
So i get £30 off the goverement for staying on about about about £25 for working in the technology department as a cad cam techision all of which goes
on the 11
Phil
Don't Steal
The Government doesn’t like the competition
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Messenjah
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:03 PM |
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grrr i get none of that £30 a week ema money  my parents earn more then the cut off limit but theyre not going to give me £30 a week are they its
bollox
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tom windmill
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 09:39 PM |
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dont think i would class myself as lazy! im 16 i go to school through the week and have three jobs all to fund the building of my indy!! the downside
is i am only left with sunday afternoon to work on my car
nearly finished though
Tom
[Edited on 18/1/06 by tom windmill]
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JoelP
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:11 PM |
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i salute your devotion tom
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steve_gus
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| posted on 18/1/06 at 10:21 PM |
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i did a paper round in 1972 (!!!!) when 13 and i got 20p a day for it. crap money.
Id rather pay my kids to wash the cars or summat else at the weekend rather than trudge around in the early morning rain to make a tenner.
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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