http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/430 is a sociological space about work, generating discussion and exchange on what work, paid or unpaid, is like in today’s world Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:20:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/post/430/comment-page-1#comment-19 J.J.Garrington Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:23 +0000 http://nowaytomakealiving.net/?p=430#comment-19 What memories the article evokes, at about that time I was working in Paxmans foundry (thats another story) and although we were as well paid as anyone else in factory work it was still a stuggle to bring up three children on the wages. So having a friend who drove the bus for Tiersons the railway contractors he fitted me in for a few weekend shifts. The hard physical graft did not bother me so much, working in the foundry was no picnic but the cold, rainy dark nights where quite unpleasant. Most of the lads I worked with on these weekends had their jobs in factories or elsewhere and only did this job to give themselves extra money for christmas, holidays or to get some new piece of furniture My particular aim was to buy a bike for each of my children, and in this I was successful. Sadly a little later there was a rather bad accident and several of the lads were killed so my wife put here foot down and I called it a day. What memories the article evokes, at about that time I was working in Paxmans foundry (thats another story) and although we were as well paid as anyone else in factory work it was still a stuggle to bring up three children on the wages. So having a friend who drove the bus for Tiersons the railway contractors he fitted me in for a few weekend shifts. The hard physical graft did not bother me so much, working in the foundry was no picnic but the cold, rainy dark nights where quite unpleasant. Most of the lads I worked with on these weekends had their jobs in factories or elsewhere and only did this job to give themselves extra money for christmas, holidays or to get some new piece of furniture My particular aim was to buy a bike for each of my children, and in this I was successful. Sadly a little later there was a rather bad accident and several of the lads were killed so my wife put here foot down and I called it a day.

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