Your first wage?

[valleys caveman]

Re: Your first wage?

Plus 10 shillings AND Luncheon Vouchers !

From 5 shillings a week pocket money it was a huge amount. Don't knock it !

[light up the darkness]

Re: Your first wage?

And re the Top Rank, who remembers ‘Grab a Granny Night’ every Monday?

Whip a widow

[goats]

Re: Your first wage?

thats it amazing place

Looking back it sure was...bombing around on fork lift trucks, cranes, huge gantry for lifting the piles of chains and anchors. I don’t know how I survived... I even painted the fence around the place and got grief off the docks boys everyday.....

[Malckent]

Re: Your first wage?

£7 and 10 shillings. Rowland James vestric warehouse in Ely. Circa 1970.I gave my mum £2. The rest was all mine and considering up until that point I only got half a Crown a week pocket money I thought I was rolling in it. 😂

[not telling]

Re: Your first wage?

Worked on the gate at Ninian Park - £3 a match.

Proper wage - £7,000pa - trainee accountant, 1986.

[Mario Miethig]

Re: Your first wage?

£29 pw. 1985/86 YTS, with Wimpey Homes

[AfricanBluebird]

Re: Your first wage?

35 quid a week in 1987 on a training scheme at South Wales Switchgear, Pontllanfraith.

Spent most of it in Robert Barkers in Blackwood, also had a discount because my Mum knew him.

A few months later joined switchgear on a full time contract and and my salary was 790 per month.

Glorious days... a few days a week and three evenings a week in Crosskeys college doing a BTEC while working full time. great days.