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mine was £26
my lads got his £220 pw take home
he seems to think £30 pw rent is too much

Pftt, I'm paying 25% to parents and another 20% to the Chancellor. Blimmin' kids.

Kick him out.

I had to pay 30% of whatever I took home.

25-30% of take home sounds about right to me.

He's a good lad our Yeovil, whatever he steals, he gives to his mum!

In 1970 my first wage packet for working a 37.5 hour week in print as an apprentice was £7.50
I got paid at the same time £40 a week to play football (two games) never been so well off.

My daugther doesn't pay any rent, my youngest son (24) pays £100 per month for that he gets his room, washing, ironing, food at home, packed lunch and the £100 goes into a bank account for him when he finally leaves.

bloody hell go room for 1 more ;)

Do you remember what print firm it was Dell?....my first wage was £16 i paid 15 for lodgings and distincly remember buying a Chinese meal with the other pound!

does he know that? fucking ace surprise if not.

Oxley & Sons for my apprenticeship. At the time journeyman earnt £43.50 a week which was a fortune.
Always remember the father-in-law saying (worked for the BBC) his ambition was to earn £4,000 a year, how times have changed.

No - I might need to nick it back.

My first wage packet was £8 a week for getting up at 5.30am every day (Monday to Saturday) and deliver papers.

My first pay packet would have been about £900ish. I really cant remember.

Its weird to see how little was alot of money back in the day. Was reading the Moonraker novel where James Bond talks about earning mega bucks, £1500 a year!!!

Hard to believe that that was once mega bucks. I get more than that in interest per year!

In what Town were they Dell....cant say ive heard of em.

Windsor, The Windsor & Eton Express was the paper, magazines included Loving, Love Affair, CMA News, Ascot Racecourse Programmes, Speedway News. Approximately 200 workers, four apprentices each year - 1 to letterpress, 1 to litho, 1 to typesetting and the other one as a compositor.

First proper job I had was for £2.72 an hour, that'd be 100 quid a week if it'd been full time.

I paid £100 a month rent then, so about 25%, but that included all bills and food.

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oxladefamilyhistory/occup_printers_booksellers.html



Not sure if they are still in Windsor,i like tracing old firms....and they were old,origanally Oxlade,the Berkshire dialect made it sound like Oxley...very interesting(for me anyway Dell!)

£5.20. For a four hour shift at Boots the Chemists..........

They closed in 1980ish, and at the time the longest running local newspaper in the country without ever missing a weekly publication over 200 years.
Jack Reader was the owner at the time and he married the last remaining Oxley and the union tried to hold him to ransom and wanted an extra 5p an hour, he said he wouldn't pay it and if they striked, which they did, and he sold it lock-stock and barrell, they thought he was joking but he wasn't and sold the land for over £1m probably about £50m in todays market.
I had left at that time and the group was taken over by a huge publishers who worked out of Slough, cant remember the name of the organisation. The paper is still published today under the same name of Windsor & Eton Express.

£12 a week for delivering the Adver, plus tips at Xmas :)

Xmas tips as a paperboy were immense. I could easily clear £200 in tips at Xmas. For a couple of years I had a morning & afternoon round which brought in around £300-£400 in tips. Unless the theiving milkman or postman got there first.

Can vaguely remember that....good to meet you last night by the way.

And a free peek at Sam Fox to Samdy no doubt...my fave was Corrine Russell.

Bit confused by that, who did you meet?

Ime sorry Dell...getting old....it was Fred Elliott!

My first job was at...wait for it...Kwik Save supermarket. Sadly no longer with us, I was paid £2.60 an hour for ten or thirteen hours a week (I think). I started there a week after I turned 16. It was shit, though I did meet some interesting characters there, one guy I actually went on to play in his band, and it was the place I met my first love! can't believe that was 7 years ago now.

Which trade did you take up Dell, I did a five year apprenticeship as a compositor - bit of a waste of time now, but I loved it!

Was that in Swindon Reevesy?

Started off as a compositor for the first year, then moved to the Monotype casters, Monotype keyboard and finally Photon (filmsetting).

No, Melksham.

My first job was at book club associates over blagrove ind estate. Worked 6 til 10 every night and weekends while still at school.

My first job was being a lifeguard for naturists! £7 per hour

Hygrade in Chippenham, Saturdays and Sundays 6am-2pm - good pay, awful job.

Almost a snap there then Dell, I started off as a comp, moved to the Monotype keyboard (didn't like that), moved to Suffolk when I was about 24, worked as a comp for five years (loved it) and then re-trained on to film and paper makeup before getting made redundant when the publishers realised they could do it all in-house and cut us out!!

You and I both know that was Mattesons...........shocking place!

Not as bad as the chicken factory in Sutton Benger though.....some of the horror stories I've heard from there (most of which I've forgotten though) make you cringe.

£4 for an 8 hour shift on my old mans milkround, Saturday mornings.

Caused a family feud by resigning to do the papers for £10 a week.

First real job was a butcher at Safeway Warminster - £68-50 for a weeks work.....happy days.....i was shagging everything in sight!

not the meat i hope >:(

Yeah, I too have heard stories. Hygrade (Mattesons) was bad enough, I worked there during the foot and mouth crisis, which wasn't fun. I once spent a whole shift removing moldy corned beef from tins, I've never seen so much colours on corned beef - it was rank!

I don't eat packaged meats now... I've seen what people do, doesn't matter if it's Tesco value ham or it's "deluxe" stuff, people were taking bites out of the meat, spitting on it, the lot.

Cows,Pigs and the odd sheep no doubt!

I worked on the chicken farm in New Zealand for a day when I was 14.

Pigs, cows and a few dogs.............all a notch....

That's Warminster for you. Did you pick them all up in JBs?

£5 a week for a paper round aged 14 in Malmesbury, £2 extra for doing the Sunday round, that was a bloody heavy bag to cart around.

First proper job, 7k pa. I was robbed!

First full time job was 13.5k a year, which being 10 years ago was actually bloody good.  I dont even know what I earn now but know if I stop for a few days I am fucked.

Worst pay was £3 an hour cracking nuts.

Protection racket BB ?

My first job was working in Debenham's as a sales assistant in charge of selling Atari's in the first year of their release - twas the coolest and easiest job to have in the store - £60 per week plus commission :D

Ha ha, only at school- it was teh only time there were smaller people than me.  Just remembered frying eggs for 12 hours at Tesco Watford week after week! Shit job, but clocked if I worked a 12 hour day on one departmnet on a sunday then an hour off followed by 11 in another departmenet id earn something like £275 as double pay, that was a highlight of 3 years in teh place.

mine was just under £600. Was earning £6500 pa!!!!

first thing i did was buy me a playstation as they'd just come out!!!!
Happy Days

6,
£6,500 was my first years salary as a copper

Lifeguarding - I think we used to earn something like £2.50 an hour - I also used to work 2 nights a week on the checkout in Sainsburys in Calne when it first opened - I HATED it

STFC paid me £10k for my first salary.

Was it ever on time?

Used to deliver the Swindon Messenger and got paid £3.50 (or thereabouts) for about 2 hours work. Got more if there were loads of leaflets to put in the papers too.

My first proper job was a data entry clerk at the age of 16. I thought I'd hit the jackpot earning £4.50 an hour.

£4.19 at morrisons. It was cack

Was it ever on time?

Yeah, onyl a few months it was late. always by cheque though.

First money I brought in was £25 a week at British Railways at Swindon Rail Works as a YTS in 83.

My first salary was £6,500 at House of Fraser Computer Services in Dorcan as a COBOL programmer in 84.

Fist pay packet was £30 for working weekends in the pet shop at the old Greenbridge market in the early 90's. I got sacked for falling asleep on the job...I did actually fall asleep in the store room...for four hours...

First "proper job" was £11k a year not long after.

£3.86 an hour I think it was, in Morrisons on the tills. It was shit and I got sacked quite quickly.

£1.56 an hour waitrose

£20 for 5 nights a week working in the kitchen of the pub my parents ran.  I think they took advantage a little!

I live by there - horrible place. And some of the mongs who get jobs there are even worse! I'm surprised you managed to last a day!

My first job was the one at WHSmith, which I've been doing on and off for 3 years. Think I started on about £4.60 an hour. Before that I used to stick up skittles at Goatacre Village Hall. Best part of a tenner for an hour's "work". If I did it twice a week I was laughing!

Ha. Ace my dad used to run the goatacre cricket club.

REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG like when??

MY godsisters gramp used to run the chicken farm!!

Early 90's

wow - I bet he would know my dad then?

£9 a week for a seven day morning paper round.this was for martins over west swindon and i robbed fucking loads out of the shop.well, what did they expect on them wages?

first job was working in a shop that sold curtains and stuff in abingdon. forgot how much my first pay was but i bought a DVD player and the hitchhikers guide tv series.

Are you from west swindon arriba?
My first job was regular babysitting monday to friday 4-8pm and a saturday night. I used to get £15. With the first pay i got some minging big baggy green jeans that i absolutly loved back then, From the old market in the brunel...!

yeah,grew up toothill.no longer living there but my parents still do.

"Sticking up" at skittles is a rite of passage in Westbury... It wasn't a job it was something you had to do like an remedial version of National Service :D

same in Calne really! my family are big skittlers - I could never be arsed - it was more boys work!!

i think its a given in most small towns! it was the same at the community centre in corsham! i was too busy chatting girls up in the pool to be called up for "service"

My first IT job was at Abingdon College.

when was that?

i think i knew you when i was at college (2005-2007) so i presume it wasn't then?

it was either 99 or 2000.