Remember your first full time wage packet

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Summer of 1976 £16 pounds for Woods and sons of Bedford, where i started as an apprentice plasterer, i had to give my mum £10 for my keep so i had a whole £6 pounds left to myself , Beer/petol was very cheap then, nearly four pints for a £, and petrol to run my fizzy DX50cc, LOL them were the days . How about you ?

 

[Andy Allen]

1982 £25 started for mj lavenders used to fit vynal tiles and carpets on the building sites and he took the tiling on as a side line. Had some old guy been tiling for years and he wanted a trainee and I got the job..

Stay there for 4years then took over some of the sites with the guy who trained me.....built the business up to where we were employing 10 tilers. Till the recession in the late 80 early 90 hit.....but thats a whole different story. .

 

[Chalker]

I first full time wage to me was 1980 started for a local plumber as a YTS £16 a week.

 

[Chalker]

Bet somone comes on amd says they got a penny a year tho!!!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=kp&v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

 

[jonnyc]

1977 airport courier services. £ 35.00 per week plus all the profits from bringing in alchohol/ cigs and cigars and selling on .
acs was the first overseas courier service in uk well before tnt and dhl etcc.
we used to fly out of heathrow every day to a different city or two in the world and deliver letters pacakages/newsreel by hand .
best trip i had was flying to los angeles to pick upa toothbrush from warren beatty house. i then flew back to stockholm and took a boat out to an island to deliver .ridiculous waste of his money!!

 

[Mr Tiler]

£2.50 per hour when I was 15 throwing bits of plastic into a mill and bagging it up not the worst job I ever had but it was the lowest paying

 

[Perry]

1968 £5 a week 7 days a week 13 hr days 6 days Sunday was only 11 hours. Working for my old man ,in a shop.

 

[On one]

£15 a week on a Yops scheme.in 82. Made a further£10 a week on the transport subsidy and hitched the 12 miles home!

 

[Peter]

First year apprentice, £20 from my boss and £40 from the tech plus a £10 travel allowance, in September 2003. 70 quid went quite far when I had £15 housekeep, didn't drink or smoke and £2.50-£3 filled the tank of my Honda MT50 for a week. Used to manage to save about £40 a week. :lol:

Christmas 2003 the boss gave me a pay rise to £25. Felt like an international drug smuggler.

 

[Ajax123]

1985 for me... £53.75 working in a men's fashion shop... I don't get much more than that now!

 

[WetSaw]

1977 Pudney & Sims, Kenley. Apprentice mechanic for Fiat and Lancia franchise. £9 pw, 2 days a week college, one theory one practical. Qualified after 5 years and was on £55 pw. We had a petrol forecourt and all the fuel for my FS1E and Puch Grand Prix Special was put down as spillages. My brother was a telegram boy at the post office earning £102 pw! The garage was struggling and there were rumours of redundancy. I had already applied to the post office and been offered a job when redundancy came so I was lucky.

 

[Sean Kelly]

1982 I was on the YOP scheme. Pretty sure it was £25 a week. I was learning computer/typing/office skills at BOC (British Oxygen Company) Hammersmith. Got a placement at Cable & Wireless in Holborn for about £96 a week. Only worked there for 25 years when some 'Richard Head' director decided to shift the whole IT operations to India.

Then started my first tiling job on the building sites of East London for £40 a day!!!!!

 

[White Room]

Started a plumbing and heating apprenticeship, £5 a week with national insurance deducted which was 57p and then £2 to me mum which left me with £2.43 for the week which lasted the apprenticeship did'nt, I was 15 at the time and that was back in 71.

 

[jonnyc]

Started a plumbing and heating apprenticeship, £5 a week with national insurance deducted which was 57p and then £2 to me mum which left me with £2.43 for the week which lasted the apprenticeship did'nt, I was 15 at the time and that was back in 71.

that sounds a bit stingy . where were you working then and where do you live now in herts .
i went to school in herts and liked the area

 

[White Room]

that sounds a bit stingy . where were you working then and where do you live now in herts .
i went to school in herts and liked the area

It was a small company, no site work as such but big houses out in the country locally....the school was called Bennets End Secondary modern in Hemel Hempstead but changed the name to Longdean, think they went all posh. [MENTION=15118]jonnyc[/MENTION]

PJC went to the same school.