Remember your first full time wage packet

[Houston]

left school in 1983, went to work for Italian tile company called Peccol Tile in Birmingham, they paid me £48 p/week

 

[Deleted member 9966]

£900 before tax and NI, working for a bank 2 months after finishing uni. Stayed there for about 6 months but left to find a permanent job because there was no guarantee my contract would be extended. Ended up going to work for JCB for less money, but it was a permanent job, which meant being able to get a flat and afford finance for my first proper car.

 

[Ian]

My first proper job was with Safeway as a cleaner part time, £2.83 per hour in 1996. I has a paper round before that and got £11.50 per week for 7 days, it only took half an hour in the morning though 🙂

 

[peteablard]

£3.24 an hour as a white goods delivery driver back in 1994. Used to take home about £110 a week.

 

[Perry]

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. @jonnyc

PJC went to the same school.

Was it Mr Dane the headmaster or Mr Fowler ?

 

[Perry]

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 .

I remember Boxstead road in Hemel.

 

[Brian the Tile]

£4 odd a week when i first started tiling at fifteen,and was worked like a donkey,wish i could turn the clock back i,d do more than spit in his face ,thats the fella i served my time with im meaning ,he would do his own mother that fella

 

[jonnyc]

second job i had 1978 was selling apple doughnuts on the beaches of south of france between st raphael and le lavendou. paid by commssion. was earning about £ 40.00 per week before the beaches got overrun with sellers.3 months till end of summer on campsite and then the first of the grape picking in s france followed by bordeaux and on. if you had enough dosh it was india for the winter .
if not then kibbutz in israel.
i have counted 105 jobs i did from age of 18 over 7 year period travelling the world and when i came back 1985 I had no idea what i would do . my travelling mate walked past what was then the only fired earth shop in london and we decided to be tilers with no experience at fixing at all.
was a big struggle but have stuck at it but i can honestly say that if there was not interesting tiles like slate and terracotta to fix like fired earth had i would not have lasted a year.

 

[White Room]

Was it Mr Dane the headmaster or Mr Fowler ?

Mr Fowler was the headmaster, Dane was deputy. [MENTION=3298]pjc[/MENTION]

 

[m3fitter]

1986.. first wage packet.. Bracknell Roofing as a lad, ( loading out all day off a ladder in 8's ! ) £25.00 a day, progressed to £40.00 a day after a year 🙂, 1989 then discovered an easier way of tiling by the time I was 18.. on an impressive £45.00 a day, but for 2 tilers, knocking up their sticky, loading out for them and grouting up everything they did !! wasn't allowed to use the wet cutter until I could nip an L shape out :-( 1992 Germany.. alf wiedersen pet style up to £80.00 a day !! 7am - 7pm 6 days a week.. errr then I went on my own..