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By *ev-P OP   Man
over a year ago

Hampshire

As in...what was your first ever wage?.

Mine was the grand sum of £9 per week as a 15 year old first year apprentice printer in the 70's. Used to get it on a Friday in cash in a little brown envelope. Surprising how far that £9 went in them old days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£25 per week YTS in 1983 working in and office mon-fri 8.30 to 4.30

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At 16 I earned the grand sum of £2 15s any old arse knows how much that is.I was a Telegraph lad delivering telegrams.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"£25 per week YTS in 1983 working in and office mon-fri 8.30 to 4.30"
snap

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By *exycleanerWoman
over a year ago

pontefract

i still get my wages in a little brown envelope and on wednesday not friday,

got £20 week my firts job xe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a paper round in 1994 and earned £9 a week, I felt loaded!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£75 a week cleaning windows. Oh the fun on a Friday with 75 squid on yer hips

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£27.50 a week YTS hairdressing apprentice in 87

Had to give my mum the 20 so had just 7.50 to myself

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I don't remember.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

God knows how I managed to survive on it, but I think I was earning around £37 a week in 1990 while on a YTS course.

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By *uslaffMan
over a year ago

manchester

£ 29 a week on a YTS (young thick and simple) scheme. Used to give my mum 15 for keep and always had it back off her for Tuesday.

Dad still reckons I owe him £ 750 plus interest.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"As in...what was your first ever wage?.

Mine was the grand sum of £9 per week as a 15 year old first year apprentice printer in the 70's. Used to get it on a Friday in cash in a little brown envelope. Surprising how far that £9 went in them old days "

£2.00 a day teaching riding at weekends, then £14.65 a week as a groom in Yorkshire for the summer hols, back in the 70's, with 50p plus tips for one evening a week in the 'Dog & Duck' pulling pints!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£2.85 an hour, washing pots and pans in a local hotel.

used to work after college and weekends, to try and help out so my parents didnt have to pay for me to carry on in ejukayshun.

this is the reason why it annoys me that some people wont do jobs they deem 'beneath' them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£50 a week in 95 in a carpentry apprentiship . Hated earning no money . Paid off though !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

YTS, £27.50 a week

Parents took £10

£17.50 on beer and pursuing loss of virginity (bad combination)

Was supposed to be training to be a chef

Spent a year peeling carrots

Nice

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By *olwaySonarMan
over a year ago

Carlisle


"At 16 I earned the grand sum of £2 15s any old arse knows how much that is.I was a Telegraph lad delivering telegrams."

Did you ride one of them GPO mopeds?

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By *anatee175Couple
over a year ago

Sunderland

My first paid job was a shelf stacker I was 19 got paid £35 a week worked Monday to Friday 9 til 5. I hated that job. Claire

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By *lleyCat1969Man
over a year ago

Folkestone

£2.50 an hour working evenings and Saturdays (no Sunday opening then) in Safeway in the mid-80s.

Spent most of it on White Lightning and Thunderbird on the Saturday evening!

Happy days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First wage £17 Saturday job in Dunelm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£3.50 an hour aged 15 in a chip shop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£17 a week in 1976 as a baker

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

£15 a week 1976 working for my dad and my mum took a £5 those where the days

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By *ourbonKissMan
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

I had a summer job when I was 16, I was paid £5.50/hr to make flapjacks. I made about £2k and bought myself a Technics stereo that I still use even now 15yrs later

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By *arnaclebillMan
over a year ago

Robin Hood County

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By *arnaclebillMan
over a year ago

Robin Hood County

£2. 0S. 08d per week as an apprentice typewriter mechanic with Remmington Rand in 1955. Started work on my 15th birthday.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts


"As in...what was your first ever wage?.

Mine was the grand sum of £9 per week as a 15 year old first year apprentice printer in the 70's. Used to get it on a Friday in cash in a little brown envelope. Surprising how far that £9 went in them old days "

same trade but i was on £7.2 shillings & sixpence a week, dont do printing anymore, gave it up after a few years, couldnt do it now as i was trained in typesetting which they no longer do

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By *ecor atorMan
over a year ago

York

1976 the long hot summer

Car parts dept earning £14.70 a week.

Out of that my mum took £5 housekeeping + £5 for loan on my Yamaha FS1E

I still managed to go out every night!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I did Solway in West Kirby and the bike was a 125 bsa bantam back then,loved every minute of it.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"£2.85 an hour, washing pots and pans in a local hotel.

used to work after college and weekends, to try and help out so my parents didnt have to pay for me to carry on in ejukayshun.

this is the reason why it annoys me that some people wont do jobs they deem 'beneath' them"

£15 a day summer job at the head office of Spar as a 15 year old. Had to give £30 to Mum, taught me a thing or 2. Then worked in a kitchen during 6th form as well as a gardener, used to get about £35 a day of which I had to give £15 to Mum. And then first proper job got about £700 a month and had to give £250 to Mum! There are plenty of jobs out there if people are willing to do them.

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

It's not necessarily about a job being 'beneath you'. If you've studied or trained for something specific that you really want to do then you feel like you want to put all your energy into pursuing that. It's scary how quickly you stop having the energy to job hunt for what you really want once you're in full time employment and come home tired everyday.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's not necessarily about a job being 'beneath you'. If you've studied or trained for something specific that you really want to do then you feel like you want to put all your energy into pursuing that. It's scary how quickly you stop having the energy to job hunt for what you really want once you're in full time employment and come home tired everyday."

If you really want it you will find the energy. I gave up work after a couple of years having earned enough to get me through unviversity to get the career I really wanted. There was plenty of sacrifice but I got there in the end.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was 13 and worked evenings and weekends at my local supermarket. I was paid monthly and my first wage in 1987 was £55.

I gave half to mum and with the rest bought bras, thus an obsession began.

I felt like a millionaire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My first job was cooking breakfasts in a greasy spoon at 16. I used to get £45 for 2 days.

When I was at catering college full time I also worked 2 part time jobs plus extra seasonal work. Wish I had that energy now!

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By *ourbonKissMan
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester


"I was 13 and worked evenings and weekends at my local supermarket. I was paid monthly and my first wage in 1987 was £55.

I gave half to mum and with the rest bought bras, thus an obsession began.

I felt like a millionaire."

Why would you want to cover up your beautiful beasts like that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was 13 and worked evenings and weekends at my local supermarket. I was paid monthly and my first wage in 1987 was £55.

I gave half to mum and with the rest bought bras, thus an obsession began.

I felt like a millionaire."

I don't think I ever felt as well off as I did at 15!! Fortunately I didn't have to buy bras

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aside from a paper round, I think it was £20 a day for a 12 hr day at a market butchers stall when I was 15/16.

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