Remember your first full time wage packet

[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.

 

[jonnyc]

ok i know hemel hempstead a little as i went to school with owners of stoneage stone who have a yard at boxtsed farm near hemel and i go there from time to time.
I went to school at haileybury college hertford heath which is a fair way from you but have done a few jobs near hemel in recent times through recommendations . some nice country houses out that way.
pjc and i have been threatening to meet up last few years as i have an ongoing job near him .

 

[White Room]

ok i know hemel hempstead a little as i went to school with owners of stoneage stone who have a yard at boxtsed farm near hemel and i go there from time to time.
I went to school at haileybury college hertford heath which is a fair way from you but have done a few jobs near hemel in recent times through recommendations . some nice country houses out that way.
pjc and i have been threatening to meet up last few years as i have an ongoing job near him .

Is the farm near Bovingdon....

 

[judge]

Left school in 1989 and got on a yts scheme as a postie.The Gpo paid me £40 a week and had £30 off the yts .£30 straight to my mum and the rest to blow on beer and **** :8:

 

[Sean Kelly]

Quite a few YOPpies and YTS people on here. A special thanks to Margaret Thatcher I think. 'Thank you Mrs Thatcher'.

 

[White Room]

Quite a few YOPpies and YTS people on here. A special thanks to Margaret Thatcher I think. 'Thank you Mrs Thatcher'.

I had a stepson and he done a YTS and he has had quite a successful career...