I’d waited a long time, but then the phone call came in January. There was a job for me. It was 1975 and I was about to embark on a career as a paperboy.  Despite wages of just 70p a week for working seven days (still only around £6.50 in today’s money) competition for jobs  was fierce. The only way you got a call was  if someone left school and got a full time job, or was taken on by a competing newsagent who wasn’t quite so tight-fisted. Continue reading →