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Worked in my mothers pub from 10yrs old either cellar or glass collecting £5 a week. First job away from that would be labourer on a building site at 15 £140 a week ( i lied about my age and wagged school).
After school was a YTS joiner £35 a week |
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The armed forces and I was getting £42 a week.
Then deductions for ni, tax, pension and the widows pension scheme which I could never understand why I had to pay into as I wasn't married and wasn't going to have a widow.. |
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"YTS in a car repair garage, £30 a week"
YTS doing art and design - £27.50 or something per week.
After that working for a private printing firm doing the artwork /typesetting.. was about £100 per week. Had to give about £50 of it to my dad.  |
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I had 3 job straight after left school
1 working in retail during the day got pay R200 a week not weekend
2 Working on movie set at night as a drive on set in all kinds of cars wear I got paid R1000.00 a week not weekend
3 working night in a club on weekends R200 per night
This was from the age of 18yrs old for 14 years before moving back to the uk
Then working in the uk from 98 for 13 years till when I was made redundant roundabout £70 a week
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"What was your first job and can you remember the wage ?"
Yes. I worked in Woolworth's offices for £6.00 a week.
When I picked up £5 10 shillings and 5 pence I went ape shit.....
Hated the tax man ever since... |
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First one: Eitner a paper round or cleaning the local dole office when I was 14. Pay? Enough to buy a half ounce of Old Holborn 
First proper job: YTS bricklayer for £27 a week. I think I may have got more for cleaning after a year or so |
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Pot wash/kitchen porter at a chain pub when I was 16, then I moved onto FOH at 17 and left when I was 19. £5.50 an hour to start with, doing around 30 hours per week during the summer I think. I thought I was so rich. |
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Waitress in a cafe only 1.50 an hour I was only 14 I think
Washer upper in a pub ...great social life got d*unk alot ...cant remember how much I was on there
Probably spent it all |
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I went to work for a large textile company in the summer holidays after doing some work experience with them through school. I worked in a different department and they didn't realise I was 14, they thought I was from an agency and the secretary to a director. They left a 14 year old in charge of his diary etc and the petty cash tin. Can't remember how much I was paid but it was considerably more than YTS, they gave me YTS rate when I did the work experience  |
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I went to boarding school so had longer holidays than most. I used to work at a truckstop/cafe/breakersyard on the pumps filling up wagons & cars. I did 1-6pm Mon-Fri and got £16 p/w which was quite a lot to a then 15yr old. Not sure you'd be allowed to operate petrol pumps at that age now though |
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"I went to boarding school so had longer holidays than most. I used to work at a truckstop/cafe/breakersyard on the pumps filling up wagons & cars. I did 1-6pm Mon-Fri and got £16 p/w which was quite a lot to a then 15yr old. Not sure you'd be allowed to operate petrol pumps at that age now though "
Errrrrrrrr definitely not |
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Waitress in a local country pub. I loved it.
Paid about 10 pounds a week for p/t weekend work whilst i was at college
Free drinks and hot chocolate fudge cake if there was any left.
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"Apprentice painter and decorator £9 a week"
That's not quite true as when I was 11 or 12 I had a job on a milk round paid 10p or 2 shillings a morning...can remember if it was pre-decimal |
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Working nights in a factory in 1983 for £47 pw....used to go out Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday nights.have money to buy new clothes and records every week, give some to my mum and still managed to save some.
Happy days back then. |
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My first job was working part time on an assembly line at the age of 16. Think I was on £70 a week at the time and at the same time I was at studying at college and claiming £30 a week EMA.
I thought I was loaded every Friday.
No way could I live on that now |
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