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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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"£25 on yts think it was 1984. I also worked overtime to make my money and babysit the bosses kids so i probably got about £40 a week"
£27 for me too on YTS in 1987, went up a smidge. but not enough to get driving lessons, or a car. |
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"My first wage was excellent in comparison to my friends. I was doing agency reception work for the NHS when my friends were in retail and took home around £180-200 a week in summer of 2000"
wow decent money then hope you spent it wisely lol
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"£25 on yts think it was 1984. I also worked overtime to make my money and babysit the bosses kids so i probably got about £40 a week
£27 for me too on YTS in 1987, went up a smidge. but not enough to get driving lessons, or a car."
now look at you a millionaire lol |
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"My first wage was excellent in comparison to my friends. I was doing agency reception work for the NHS when my friends were in retail and took home around £180-200 a week in summer of 2000wow decent money then hope you spent it wisely lol"
Spent it on awesome bakery treats and CDs down Oxford Street  |
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"I don't remember my weekly wage but my hourly rate was £3.99 per hour. I bet in the day you coped on 3.99 a week or did you ? X
£3.99 a week wouldn't have gotten me very far  ."
sorry when I typed my response I realised what I put apologies xx |
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"I don't remember my weekly wage but my hourly rate was £3.99 per hour. I bet in the day you coped on 3.99 a week or did you ? X
£3.99 a week wouldn't have gotten me very far .sorry when I typed my response I realised what I put apologies xx"
I felt pretty rich though from my full weekends wages! I guess you do at 16 without bills to pay though |
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"£27.50 YTS doing my NVQ in Business Administration - Monday to Friday 40 hours a week.
Then on Saturday I worked for Littlewoods Pools and used to get paid £35 for 8 hours  what did you do for the pools was it collecting from houses I vaguely remember our pools being collected hi by the way xx
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"I don't remember my weekly wage but my hourly rate was £3.99 per hour. I bet in the day you coped on 3.99 a week or did you ? X
£3.99 a week wouldn't have gotten me very far .sorry when I typed my response I realised what I put apologies xx
I felt pretty rich though from my full weekends wages! I guess you do at 16 without bills to pay though "
imagine earning £3.99 an hour now would be a struggle xx |
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"I don't remember my weekly wage but my hourly rate was £3.99 per hour. I bet in the day you coped on 3.99 a week or did you ? X
£3.99 a week wouldn't have gotten me very far .sorry when I typed my response I realised what I put apologies xx
I felt pretty rich though from my full weekends wages! I guess you do at 16 without bills to pay though imagine earning £3.99 an hour now would be a struggle xx"
I'd probably be homeless! |
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"I don't remember my weekly wage but my hourly rate was £3.99 per hour. I bet in the day you coped on 3.99 a week or did you ? X
£3.99 a week wouldn't have gotten me very far .sorry when I typed my response I realised what I put apologies xx
I felt pretty rich though from my full weekends wages! I guess you do at 16 without bills to pay though imagine earning £3.99 an hour now would be a struggle xx
I'd probably be homeless! "
bet you are swanning round in Woolton now servants xx lol |
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"£27.50 YTS doing my NVQ in Business Administration - Monday to Friday 40 hours a week.
Then on Saturday I worked for Littlewoods Pools and used to get paid £35 for 8 hours what did you do for the pools was it collecting from houses I vaguely remember our pools being collected hi by the way xx
K"
Spot the ball checking…honestly if you ever done the spot the ball competition then you’d have never have won with me as I used to never check them properly 
You got a clear sheet which you had to align to the coupon and then it had a tiny dot where the ball was and the ‘cross’ had to be in the exact centre of the X.
I was hungover most days on a Saturday |
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"£27.50 YTS doing my NVQ in Business Administration - Monday to Friday 40 hours a week.
Then on Saturday I worked for Littlewoods Pools and used to get paid £35 for 8 hours what did you do for the pools was it collecting from houses I vaguely remember our pools being collected hi by the way xx
K
Spot the ball checking…honestly if you ever done the spot the ball competition then you’d have never have won with me as I used to never check them properly
You got a clear sheet which you had to align to the coupon and then it had a tiny dot where the ball was and the ‘cross’ had to be in the exact centre of the X.
I was hungover most days on a Saturday "
Yes spot the ball you put xs all crammed together did you have to get the cross in the middle of the ball x |
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over a year ago
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1976 as a Army junior, we got £3 a week, the rest was saved by the army and given to you when you went on leave, you had to buy all washing gear and polish with the £3 |
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"1976 as a Army junior, we got £3 a week, the rest was saved by the army and given to you when you went on leave, you had to buy all washing gear and polish with the £3 "
made you the man you are today my friend
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"£25.00 a week on a WEEP scheme 1982.
Invited onto their apprenticeship scheme 18 months later.
Left and set up our own company in 1996 and now we are the ones taking on apprentices."
wow congrats hope things are going from strength to strength x |
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"£50 a week in 1996 was that a decent wage then x
Apprenticeship, paid my mum 20 a week board, 10 a week travel to work, 20 a week spend "
imagine if you still lived at home and paid just £20 a week now you would be rolling in it xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£5 on a Saturday when I was about 8 for helping in the family corner shop. The only problem is I had nothing to spend it on as I got sweets for free anyway |
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"YTS in a Gateway supermarket £22.50 a week 1981.
I did ok though and I enjoyed it especially as there was me and a couple of Butchers, all the other staff were female "
gateway supermarket I was a breadman in the 80s delivering to gateway did gateway buy fine fare out xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£2 an hour, £1 deducted for lunch break, a total of £17 and I had the longest shift.
Saturday job. Got paid each week. But I made almost twice that in tips on the shift. |
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"£5 on a Saturday when I was about 8 for helping in the family corner shop. The only problem is I had nothing to spend it on as I got sweets for free anyway "
Hi my friend think your mum and dad took advantage of you you should of gone on strike go to Derby 2 or 3 times a week drive bus from Buxton to Derby the TP if you know it |
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"£2 an hour, £1 deducted for lunch break, a total of £17 and I had the longest shift.
Saturday job. Got paid each week. But I made almost twice that in tips on the shift. "
what did you do petite I reserve my judgement whether you were worth more xx lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"£64.75 a week, aged 17 in 1989, supermarket work. Felt like a fair bit at the time.hope you paid board out of that xx lol"
Yes indeed, split wages with mum. Felt good as most friends were on about £27 doing YTS schemes, and that was before they paid their dig money!
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"£64.75 a week, aged 17 in 1989, supermarket work. Felt like a fair bit at the time.hope you paid board out of that xx lol
Yes indeed, split wages with mum. Felt good as most friends were on about £27 doing YTS schemes, and that was before they paid their dig money!
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look at you showing off love it xx |
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"£5 an hour plus leftover cake in a tearooms when I was 14. I had it so good Hi my friend what cakes are we talking here xxx
Lemon, Victoria sponge and bread pudding  "
geourgeous are you a cake maker yourself xx |
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"£85 per week as a lab technician in 1987. It was a pretty well paid job for someone straight out of school
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to true you are to educated for me I was the one who the teacher said you have brains to burn xx |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"I made more money as a child washing cars then I did via YTS £26:50 per week.but I received overtime as a bonus extra £6 a hour Which got me close to £100you are showing off now lol"
Na this is showing off I've always found money in the streets even as a child I'm not talking about pennies notes 10, 20,5 plus change left over from a person who obviously was to d*unk to remember to pick it up I had two pubs on the street I grew up at each end oh plus the paper round and tips at Christmas |
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I was self employed at 14 tying Trout Flies for my local tackle shop. I sold them for about 50p of which about 30p was profit. So I was making about 20 quid a week that was in the early Nineties so it pretty good money at the time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think I was on£29:50 a day when I joined the army in 94, untraded infantry
Mine was £13 a week in 1979, my first going on leave pay though was £200
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Wow I feel almost rich lol 
Queuing for pay parade and hoping you wouldn’t fuck up abd end up at the back of the queue |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£2.88ph working in the fruit and veg section at Waitrose!
Standing there like a prat in a massively oversized brown apron bagging and tagging to help fund my Ritz video game rental. Those were the days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1996 was my first job . £40 a week ,then I was paid a extra £10 for the Saturday plus they put a extra £15 for the effort I put in .
Can honestly say though although the money wasn’t great , he was the best teacher . Made me what I am and have today . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was only 14 when I had my first job and I earned between £5 and £10 depending on how busy we were through the day. It was just a Saturday job.
My first job at 16 I was paid £51:22 a week. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"My first wage from full time jobs was £10 a week back in 1971. Could buy 4 pints of lager for £1 or 5pints of bitter "
1971 was the first year of decimalisation of the currency and a lot of pubs took advantage of the rounding up to increase prices. Pints which were 2 shilling and 6 pence in old money suddenly became 20p or 25p in new money an increase of around 50%.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peasants.....I had a silver spoon!
£20 per day as a tilers mate. Lasted 3 weeks then dislocated my shoulder in a fight!  1996
Then I joined Royal Mail on a YTS scheme for £200 per week back in 1997 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£13.75 as a Saturday girl in the local bakers shop.
I was 14 nearly 15 and it was a long day with heavy work, hood fun though.
I spent my first wage on the newly released Supergrass I should Coco album which I still love and listen to this day
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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago
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"I think I was on£29:50 a day when I joined the army in 94, untraded infantry
Mine was £13 a week in 1979, my first going on leave pay though was £200
Wow I feel almost rich lol
Queuing for pay parade and hoping you wouldn’t fuck up abd end up at the back of the queue "
March in, salute, number rank name, say thank you sir salute, about turn, march out and breathe |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hi I can remember my first full time working wage it was £26 per fortnight I was in the Royal Navy in 1977 can you remember. Your fist wage x"
shocked at getting £105 a week as a milkman mate at 16, Joined RM 4 months later to £34 a fortnight... living the dream 1979 |
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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago
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"Hi I can remember my first full time working wage it was £26 per fortnight I was in the Royal Navy in 1977 can you remember. Your fist wage x"
Can't remember the actual figures per month but my pay in the Army in 1988 was £17.05 per day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Peasants.....I had a silver spoon!
£20 per day as a tilers mate. Lasted 3 weeks then dislocated my shoulder in a fight! 1996
Then I joined Royal Mail on a YTS scheme for £200 per week back in 1997"
“Back in 1997” hilarious. |
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