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  • #31
    Re: Your first wage?

    Originally posted by 19bluebirds27 View Post
    Paper round deliver the Echo on £10 a week after school in 1993.
    Out in all weathers.
    Xmas tips were always amazing, I used to knock the door to give an Xmas card and then take as much time fiddling with the gate and letter box until I got my tip the following week.

    Kids don’t know they are born these days - do they still even deliver these days?
    I had a few paper rounds in my teens, good thing to do back then, bit of exercise too and generally on the walk home from school. Morning rounds were killers....

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    • #32
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      Originally posted by J R Hartley View Post
      First taxable wage was £90 a week As a 17 year old in 1993. After stoppages it was £85 and used to give my mother £5 a week lodge. £80 a week plus my £12 paper round money and I had no vices in those days. Spent most of it in Woodies.
      I didn’t go far in woodies...I was the same. Pair of c17 or chippie jeans about £80, polo top £45. Up to bolwells for a pair of Adidas jeans

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      • #33
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        Mill Lane Fruit Market, from the age of 12, loved the market life

        God knows what I earned

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        • #34
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          £2.10s.0d per week in 1960. Marconi International Marine Co, Mountstuart Square Cardiff

          Those were the days.

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          • #35
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            Paper round in the 60s. 10 bob a week.
            Later, in college hols worked in a tropical fish shop starting at £1 a day (1971 -1974)

            First 'proper' job after uni (1977) was in a computer firm (ICL if anyone remembers them) starting at about £3k pa

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            • #36
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              Started work in City Hall in January 1964 earning about £3.10shillings a week. Funny thing was I never seemed short of money until I discovered Top Rank and alcohol (after starting the night in the Taff Vale).

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              • #37
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                Originally posted by Cyncoed Slumdog View Post
                Started work in City Hall in January 1964 earning about £3.10shillings a week. Funny thing was I never seemed short of money until I discovered Top Rank and alcohol (after starting the night in the Taff Vale).
                Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, The Top Rank, such memories




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                • #38
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                  • #39
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                    £6 and 10 shillings a week plus a big bag of mixed veg for my mum on a Saturday morning working as a Porter over Bessemer Road fruit market in 1969
                    Early mornings did for me and so I got a job in the civil service. Very comfortable life for a few years

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                    • #40
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                      Originally posted by BLUETIT View Post
                      Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, The Top Rank, such memories




                      Love it! It looks a lot more sedate than I remember but we probably didn't think it was at that time. Compare that to the bear pit that was the rave in Liverpool last night.

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                      • #41
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                        Originally posted by BLUETIT View Post

                        Remember jumping off that balcony to be caught by a crowd of mates below.

                        One chap who just joined in jumped as we all walked away.

                        “Mr Morgan to Area 5” came the call over the speakers

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                        • #42
                          Re: Your first wage?

                          Originally posted by Cyncoed Slumdog View Post
                          Started work in City Hall in January 1964 earning about £3.10shillings a week. Funny thing was I never seemed short of money until I discovered Top Rank and alcohol (after starting the night in the Taff Vale).
                          £12.00 per week in 1971. Went out with £2 in my pocket on a Friday/Saturday night, viz:

                          Train in to Queen St Station = 10p.

                          Game of darts & 4 pints on Newcastle Brown in the Oddfellows club [Newport Rd] 4 x 16p = 64p.

                          Run to Rank to get in before 10pm entrance price hike = 50p

                          Try & 'cop on', on a ratio of 3 blokes to 1 girl, have one pint = 20p

                          Walk home via Deedar [Whitchurch Rd] or Akash [Woodville Rd], have a curry, 55p.

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                          • #43
                            Re: Your first wage?

                            Originally posted by light up the darkness View Post
                            Remember jumping off that balcony to be caught by a crowd of mates below.

                            One chap who just joined in jumped as we all walked away.

                            “Mr Morgan to Area 5” came the call over the speakers

                            Remember talkiing to one young lady (a bird in old money ), asked her if she wanted a drink, she said "a Brandy & Babycham, please" !!!!
                            Wonder what her name was, as I disappeared

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                            • #44
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                              My dad was part of the workforce building Aberthaw power station. He arranged (unknown to me) for me to spend a night shift with him.
                              It was a wonderful adventure for an eleven year old, riding on the narrow gauge railway moving the concrete mix around and drinking tea out of a tin mug with the men.
                              In the morning it was their pay day and I got a proper McCalpine pay packet for 2/6, it even had my name on it.

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                              • #45
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                                I had a summer job with Saga holidays in about 1976. They paid 50p an hour for putting tickets in envelopes. It was complete chaos and I thought this lot will never survive

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