Your First Wage Packet..

[Astanley 11,565]

£4:50 Abattoir ,gave me ma 30 Bob and fought a pair of Como's and a Ben Sherbert

[forest of dean redneck 11,539]

1992? £70 a week apprentice mechanic got laid off after 8 months.

Paid £10 week rent ,£5 to fill up the dt 50 work was 8 mile away

After that mum got me a temp job at factory she worked at £3.00 odd an hour ,I was there over a year,they laid me off for a week to break my contract so they didn't have to give me full time job,didn't mind as it was only other end of village

Had me car licence then.

[pesky1972 5,219]

First job out of school '88 - £28.50 - YTS joiner

[Jonjon79 13,358]

£55 a week as an apprentice coach builder in 1996

 

The old girl used to tap my foot if I was under a trailer, every Friday afternoon and get me to sign for a little brown packet that had cash and a pay slip in it.

 

Happy days

[dytkos 17,784]

£15 week EJ Riley apprentice snooker table maker, sacked after 3 weeks, I was crap lol went into engineering at £10.00 a week, I was decent at that

 

Cheers, D.

[lurcherman 887 13,091]

Dog kennel when i was about 14. 19.50 for a saturday. Can still smell the shit and piss now

 

2002

[Chaff 3,590]

£55 a week as an apprentice coach builder in 1996

The old girl used to tap my foot if I was under a trailer, every Friday afternoon and get me to sign for a little brown packet that had cash and a pay slip in it.

Happy days

The old brown wage packet on a Thursday for me, least you had something to show for your graft.

Nowadays I work my back off and look at a few numbers on a screen, doesn't hold the same incentive as the old brown wage packet.

[Seabass1 2]

£19. 1978 16 yr old

[ginger beard 4,652]

1st job when i was 13/14 was in a fruit and veg merchant.got sacked for supplying half the street with fruit.

1st proper job was £160 a week in a boning plant doing pork legs.'96'.got sacked for having every friday off.

[kanny 20,480]

1st job when i was 13/14 was in a fruit and veg merchant.got sacked for supplying half the street with fruit.

1st proper job was £160 a week in a boning plant doing pork legs.'96'.got sacked for having every friday off.

They called me boomtown rat at one joinery shop I worked at ..I didn't like Mondays lol

[TOMO 26,064]

1983,,,16 just left school ,,,worked in a factory in our village bailing plastic,,,£1 an hour,,,stayed there a short while got layed off,,then did a yts at sherwood forest edwinstow doing land managment,, £26 a week if i remember right

[jok 3,213]

Jeez. You guys had it good. 1 and 6d on a Friday and at 14 trying to buy a pint. Them was tough days. I remember my first moles and they were worth more than 6d. Dry stone dyking was where the money was though. £1 a yard and £1 a height. Cold as FCk but you had to get on with it . Aye we had it good. Jok.

[tatsblisters 9,500]

Remember the old man getting me and a couple of mate's in the steelworks shutdown wile we were in the last year at school we had to tell the contractor we were 18 remember getting about £130 for 7 days 12 hour shifts that was in 76.lol.After leaving school got a job on a building site as a chain lad that was working with the QS setting the big housing project out first wage was £12.50 gave me mother a fiver board and still had money come next payday.

[NE_courser 411]

got my first job with a timber merchant when I was 15. My first wage was 150 quid. Was bloody near enough slave labour for that in 2010 ??

[sussex 5,777]

1968 , £6 a week for a transport firm and the old lady took £2 of that for house keeping ..got a rise after three months to £7 and when I told my mum she took another half a quid ...never told her about any pay rises after that ..