Your First Wage Packet

[williamalex1]

16yrs old getting paid £30 a week on the college course I was on, 9 weeks later started my first job as a computer operator on £400 a month, can't remember if that was before or after tax, got a pay rise when i turned 17, still working in the IT industry.

No IT industry or PCs back in them old days , we had the abicus, slide rule, ink pots, pens with nibs , blotting paper , and only inches and fractions , oh and algebra what was that for. Some on here used slates and carbon sticks i think.

 

[palindromicbob]

13 paperboy. £5 a week.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

£242.83 working for HM Treasury in 1983

 

[CMAC]

Right...................................Damn, socket beat me to it:rofl:


However, I win as my first wage packet was nadda, zilch, zero per week and I did it for a year. I wanted to be a vet and to get experience I worked at Milton Cat and dog home free for a year, gained valuable experience with the vets- hardest part was the quarterly cull of dogs no-one wanted, I'll never forget the look on some of their faces as the vet administered the injection very sad as I wanted to save them.
Never realised my ambition but the RSPCA gave me back my years worth of travel expenses after a year for my hard work and dedication.

 

[brendy]

14 years old (1990ish) but had delivered papers for a couple of years. Waitered in a local lounge/bar and the rate was £7.50 a night going up to the heady heights of £10.50, going home on the Saturday night with 20 quid inc tips for two evenings work felt great, salary just doesnt feel as satisfying for some reason. .

 

[Andy808]

First proper job was as a chef in a local pub earning around £250 a week working my nads off all day and night.
Then finished college, moved to London to work at Harrods in the kitchens and get paid £100 a week with which I had to pay rent, feed myself and get to work everyday.

 

[bigslice]

I remember taking on two 16 year old female YOP trainee green keepers in the 1990's.
Both were tiny, one was less than 5 foot. We had a hell of a job getting a pair of size 2 safety boots for her.
Both were quick learners and cracking workers. They also got on well with 'the men'.

yts got a bad press at the time, but for me it was a good way to get a job, serve my time and get experience. I stayed at the same company for 10 years and got a very wide and varied experience of the plumbing industry.

 

[Garesfield ACE]

Paper boy 1973......£3 a week

1st proper job....1977......£19 a week

 

[chrisd]

1967 age 15 years 3 months, worked in a scrap yard, Mitcham Surrey. Paid about £5 10s. Had done jobs like paper round then 4 years in a butchers shop from the age of 10, life was a little tough in those days!

 

[jimbob.someroo]

Mine's a bit more recent but:

2004-05: Paperboy - £14.50 a week
2006-07: Supermarket - £5 p/h
2008-09: Pub foody - £6 p/h
2009-11: University Retail - £5.50 - £7 p/h
2011-12: Internship - £15k
2012: First 'proper' salary - £21k

 

[JustOne]

1986 £1.41/hr, not gone up much since

 

[SocketRocket]

Didn't really work 29 hours at Mill. I started as a Technician Apprentice for British Aircraft Corporation in 1964. Worked from 7:30 to 5:30 Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 12:00 midday on a Saturday, Night School from 6:00 Pm to 9:00 Pm three nights after work. All for the sum of £3 and 9d, I gave my Mum £1 -10 Shillings, 10 Bob for bus fare. The £1 left I spent on lunches and saving for my first Gutair.

 

[blackpuddinmonster]

When at school i had a paper round, a milk round and worked saturdays and sundays at the local farm, for a grand total of £45 / wk.
When i left school, the same local farm took me on under the yts scheme for the grand total of £25 / wk.
At the time, gutted didn't quite cover it.

 

[Sharktooth]

1985 summer job in a slaughterhouse, £69 a week aged 16. While all my mates were playing football I was up to my neck in blood and pig poo

 

[Khamelion]

I forgot about being a paperlad did that for 3yrs from 13, can't remember the wage £5 a week I think, then from the same paper shop I worked behind the counter on a Saturday and Sunday morning for a few hours each day, netted an extra £10 for that.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

yts got a bad press at the time, but for me it was a good way to get a job, serve my time and get experience. I stayed at the same company for 10 years and got a very wide and varied experience of the plumbing industry.

One of my YTS girls is now in a fairly senior position with IGM in London.
About 15 years after leaving us we were both at a golf function. She recognised me [I hadn't a clue who she was!] and thank me for her great 'grounding'.

BTW ....Paper boy is not a job!!

 

[chrisd]

BTW ....Paper boy is not a job!!

Anything that required me to get up at 5.30 in the morning was a job as far as I am concerned. Funny, my local shop won't deliver papers on a Sunday as they tell me that no one will do the job!!

 

[Robobum]

£10 a game @ 16 playing football and £22 every Saturday morning cleaning the ovens @ Mothers Pride bakery.

Don't think I've had as much disposable income since!!!!

 

[GreiginFife]

1994 working a 40 hour week for Granada TV rental company, £200 per week plus commission was excellent for a 16 year old with no committments or creditors to worry about.
As Robobum says, never had as much disposable since, despite earning multiple times that now.
Shows how much cost of living has gone up and how expensive kids are.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Hogan you didn't run into a guy called Andy Wylie about that time, wee[ish] chap, massively long hitter with a huge hook.
Big Starky would be the Pro then, he was a bit of a legend.

Jimmy Wilson was the Pro when I played there - I used to have a chat with him when I went in to pay my green fee. His workshop was juyst part of the shop - a couple of benches behind the counter. He'd often be rewhipping woods and the likes. Wooden floors back then and pretty basic.