Paperboy.
Self employed for two years (aged 13 to 14) at weekends and evenings. Bought old railway sleepers and then sawing/splitting/chopping/bundling them up for kindling; then delivered them.
Worked a couple of summers, during the Sixth form, as a general labourer at a market garden.
Drove a tractor for a friend who'd bought a 60 ton heap of horse sh*t !! Took 3 weeks to deliver it all when he sold it.
Brickies' labourer/dumper driver for a summer, waiting to get into the RAF.
Lab assistant at a Rubber works for two years. (1957 on !)
Then sensibly the Fleet Air Arm took me on……………….
Thought flying would be easier…………..from the age of about seven !