I had a Saturday job in Woolworths when I was 15 (stayed on an extra year at Secretarial College) must have been 1964. I was paid 17/6 for the day. Those were the days when Woolys had assistants behind counters There was a tea bar at the end of the store where the boys congregated, you can imagine my friend and I loved working there.
My first full time job was in the London Transport Offices at Baker Street, I was paid £5 a week that was 1965. I travelled up on the Metropolitan line train with all the city gents in their bowler hats. I didn't like working in an office as much as the shop, and after a couple of years, much to mothers disgust, I worked in Freeman Hardy and Willis shoe shop. I did go back to office work eventually in the Express Dairy offices which I loved too, lots of nice young milkmen!