SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Abso-bluddy-lootly
My brother got £1.75 a week as his round was shorter than mine. Mine was a beast - on Sundays I couldn't carry my paper bag it was so heavy. Not a job? pah!
Your First Wage Packet
- Thread starter Doon frae Troon
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Abso-bluddy-lootly
My brother got £1.75 a week as his round was shorter than mine. Mine was a beast - on Sundays I couldn't carry my paper bag it was so heavy. Not a job? pah!
Sharktooth
Head Pro
5 quid a week I used to get for my paper round and most of that was in bucketing rain, snaw, gale force winds in the pitch dark. Thursdays was local paper day on top of all the Daily Records and Sunday was a nightmare an all. Mind you, I did rob the news agent blind by nicking papers and flogging them to the local workies :thup:
upsidedown
Tour Winner
Really cant remember but know that 3 weeks working in a hop kiln gave me enough money to buy my first car in 1977, black and red Mini VDW686
bladeplayer
Money List Winner
Nov 1987 , £45 (punts) for normal week with £10 extra for working till 9 on Tues & Thurs.. petrol pump attendant ..
Still with the same company... feels like im not geting paid much more
as per Greig & Robobum
Still with the same company... feels like im not geting paid much more
as per Greig & Robobum
MegaSteve
Tour Winner
Didn't bother with a paper round... Earnt more helping the milkman Saturday and Sunday mornings... Had to walk about three miles to meet him in nearby Rickmansworth... The round finished adjacent to family home... Got paid ten bob plus tips... One American family used to give me two bob alone! So could easily clear a quid for the two days... Which was way more than my mates got for delivering newspapers...
On leaving school [with me 5 'O' levels] in '69 I started training as a film lab technician... I got paid a tenner a week to start with... Which was more than my mates got on their 'proper' apprenticships over at Heathrow with BEA/BOAC...
On leaving school [with me 5 'O' levels] in '69 I started training as a film lab technician... I got paid a tenner a week to start with... Which was more than my mates got on their 'proper' apprenticships over at Heathrow with BEA/BOAC...
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Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
My finest day started with the paper round followed by three rounds caddying [well two rounds and 15 holes to be precise]
I earned 5 bob a week with the paper round and 7/6d a round caddying.
I was knackered but I had a massive one pound two and six in my pocket.
I earned 5 bob a week with the paper round and 7/6d a round caddying.
I was knackered but I had a massive one pound two and six in my pocket.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Sorry got in a mucking fuddle John Stark was at Crieff. I knew Jimmy, he liked a dram!
Andy was probably just before your time, he was my scratch league partner when I was at Newmarket.
Hit a big hook so he could play round the mountain at Pitlochry.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
You don't want a push or slice around Pitlochry - grand view from Craigower under the shadow of Ben-y-Vrackie. I thinking back I can imagine Jimmy would enjoy his dram as he had that sort of face...
williamalex1
Money List Winner
We called 2/ 6d, a half dollar or two n a tanner, a half crown if you were being posh.
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Only ever saw hauf croons when about to go on our summer hols - we were given five bob as spending money for the fortnight. Still mind my weeks pocket money being increased from 6d to a shilling.
Two paper rounds as a kid. One of them was a Sunday round with only 6 papers... unfortunately it was 6 farms and took a couple of hours to do.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Were it all oophill as well lad, nice bit of Hovis when ye got 'ome.
Only the oophil bits were oophill, and that there north Wales does loads of oophill bits.
wrighty1874
Journeyman Pro
1975 first year apprentice and received £18.75 a week.
user2009
Head Pro
1990 my first job was an admin assistant £5400 a year which was £100 a week to take home, I felt rich 
Sharktooth
Head Pro
1990 my first job was an admin assistant £5400 a year which was £100 a week to take home, I felt rich
Sounds like you worked for the dSS?
Jack_bfc
Challenge Tour Pro
YTS £27.50 a week in a Ford Garage.. 1982ish
Rooter
Money List Winner
my first proper job with a proper annual salary was £10k a year as a sales admin in 2000. took home about £600 a month IIRC.. was a chef before but worked crazy hours and cant even remember getting paid as i used to p it up the wall the same day..
user2009
Head Pro
Close, it was the Dept for Education
Sharktooth
Head Pro
I was on the same when I worked for the SS. And I use the term 'worked' very loosely.
