As a highschool student AW worked as a salad girl, washing lettuce and chopping tomatoes at a summer camp for young whites where blacks were not allowed except as workers. In later student vacations she worked as a sales clerk or waitress.

At the beginning of the First World War, Dora worked briefly with the Women's Voluntary Corps . After a year of this, she recalls, I no longer had any heart for helping in the holocaust, but I still could not convince myself that I ought to oppose it.

EG played the role of the Lady in a private production adapted from her romance novel Three Weeks at the Adelphi Theatre in London.

SG began visiting the poor while she lived in Norwich.

Through a second cousin NH got a job as one of the chorus in a play at the Aldwych Theatre at one pound a week. The play ran for two weeks, but she then spent three weeks waiting in the office of a theatrical manager without being picked for another job. When she heard the latest job needed a little bit of fluff she realised the theatre was not for her. She returned to painting and soon sold a pastel head to Liverpool Art Gallery . She also taught painting privately for five shillings a lesson.

JEH ended the year of her Tripos exams by teaching for one term at Oxford High School for Girls .

The Victoria League , chaired by EL , reported that the society had reached more than 18,000 people in the past year through their lending libraries and illustrated lectures.

At the age of thirteen DM was appointed a teaching candidate at Marsden Town School ; she was later a pupil-teacher there.

On returning to Princeton from travels in France, SB worked as a research assistant for Professor Charles Osgood on his Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser (1915).

Muriel's mother surprised her by sympathising with her desire to get into pictures, while her father saw nothing wrong with being a typist. She began working in films as a teenage extra in The Wandering Jew and a thriller series called The Old Man in the Corner (based on early stories by Baroness Orczy ). A day's work, with travelling, amounted to seventeen hours and brought in a few shillings. She was taken on to dance in a Christmas show, but was let go in the course of rehearsals. (It was after this that she enrolled in dancing school.) Her first serious job was giving dancing lessons to children at the Mary Ward Settlement (at twelve guineas a year). At this time she was also performing in Maude Scott 's amateur acting company, for which she gained good reviews. Work was at this time very hard to find, because of the depression. An application to join the Civil Service resulted in nothing but humiliation. In the end she was only too glad to accept a job as a typist for Barcley Corsets Limited in Welwyn Garden City at two pounds ten shillings a week before deductions, although she found the work monotonous. From there she moved eagerly to the same kind of job in the Scenario Department of British Instructional Films . In this job she began to meet and talk with film people, and to help with the revision and improvement of dialogue, which at this date was often excruciatingly bad when actors began to rehearse. She even made a few-second appearance on screen as a nurse when an extra failed to turn up. She got her first taste of continuity work in the same way, when a proper continuity clerk (then known as a continuity girl) had appendicitis and she filled in.

SHB was also something of an artist, in drawing and watercolours.

In 1919 BC taught Sunday School at St Paul's in Knightsbridge. She told the children dramatic stories, improvising as they went along.

Catherine McMullen (later CC ) got her first job, in service with a local family. She cleaned and washed from 8 a.m. till 6 p.m. daily.

EC , aged eight, first appeared on stage in a walk-on role for a performance of Olivia at the Court Theatre ; her mother, Ellen Terry , and famous actor Henry Irving played the leads.

Chrissey Evans , elder sister of Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) got married, leaving Mary Ann with the responsibility of housekeeping for her father and brother.

When she returned to Canada in 1906, EW was not formally introduced into society through a coming-out party, unlike many girls returning from boarding school at age eighteen. Instead, she set about earning a living and was admitted to a teacher training program at the Vancouver Normal School in September, 1906. She subsequently taught in four different public elementary schools over the next thirteen years. In the public city system she was paid $47.50 per month. When asked later if she enjoyed her work as a teacher with children, EW seemed annoyed by the question and abruptly replied, No. However, pupils interviewed years later indicated that she communicated neither negativity nor dissatisfaction in the classroom. She was remembered as beautiful and gentle. She never disciplined or teased anyone. We all loved her.

GS assisted in the delivery of infants in the African-American community of Baltimore during her term at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine .

CS was much involved in helping to bring up her younger half-brothers and sisters. In 1922, instead of beginning her teaching career, she was employed by Dr Gilbert Phillips as a research assistant in psychology, and it was not until January 1923 that she embarked on her first teaching job, at a slum school in inner Sydney at a salary of £143 per annum (fifty pounds less than the Public Service Basic Wage for males, set later this year). She found she did not enjoy teaching: her voice gave out at the end of the first week. Gilbert Phillips rescued her again the next year with a lectureship at Sydney Teachers' College , but she abandoned her teaching career in July 1925 after five weeks with a class of feeble-minded children whom she loved but felt unable to help, followed by an unpaid leave. She had contracted herself as a bonded teacher until the end of 1927, and in order to avoid paying back her bond she secured a medical certificate saying she was permanently incapacitated by neurasthenia. She turned to secretarial jobs, working at first for an architect. By the time she left Australia she had already worked as a public school teacher, a teacher of abnormal children, a demonstrator in the psychology laboratory of Sydney University , and a clerk in a grain company.

On leaving Heriot Watt College, Muriel Camberg (later MS ) got a teaching job at a small private dayschool near her home, run and owned by two sisters who shamelessly exploited her. She received no pay, but only free tuition in shorthand and typing, which later helped her a great deal in her writing career. She did coaching at weekends for pocket-money. At the school she taught English, arithmetic, and nature studies, for four or five hours a day. After a year she wanted to ask for payment in money, but did not know how to do so. She resigned instead. She found it hard to get another job, though she had no problems with antisemitism in Edinburgh. In the end she went to work in the office of an exclusive women's department store, at starting pay of three pounds a month, which gradually increased to twice that sum.