Your first wage?

[valleys caveman]

£25 a week take home.
Left school 1983 ish. Only thing I could get back then was a YTS
Lived the dream for two nights a week though.

[MOZZER2]

Re: Your first wage?

£20 a week apprentice

but worked part time in the nights collecting glasses at the near by working mans club earning about 5 pound a night

it payed for my city away days back then ! those persil train tickets were a godsend

[lincoln blue]

Re: Your first wage?

£5 a week, glove factory on Pontypridd Broadway.
My job the first week was to cut out the "St Michael" labels from Marks and Spencer rejects and when I had a box full I took them to a lady who sewd in "Winfield" labels for dispatch to Woolworths.

[Tuerto]

Re: Your first wage?

£25 a week take home.
Left school 1983 ish. Only thing I could get back then was a YTS
Lived the dream for two nights a week though.

£28 per week. Apprentice, 1989.

[Stanmore Bluebird]

Re: Your first wage?

£40 per week in 1976 as a buyer in a factory in Pengam Way.

[valleys caveman]

Re: Your first wage?

£28 per week. Apprentice, 1989.

No need to brag

[valleys caveman]

Re: Your first wage?

£5 a week, glove factory on Pontypridd Broadway.
My job the first week was to cut out the "St Michael" labels from Marks and Spencer rejects and when I had a box full I took them to a lady who sewd in "Winfield" labels for dispatch to Woolworths.

Nothing to do with your post.... but I used to travel up and down to Lincolnshire 4 times a week. Up as far as Spalding.
How come you ended up there?

[xsnaggle]

Re: Your first wage?

I can't remember what my first wage was it was so long ago.
But I do remember the coins had holes in them so you could keep them on a rope round your neck or waist so no one could pick your pocket for them.

[Moodybluebird]

Re: Your first wage?

£6 10s a week as a clerical assistant with Post Office Telephones (later BT) in November 1970.

[valleys caveman]

Re: Your first wage?

£6 10s a week as a clerical assistant with Post Office Telephones (later BT) in November 1970.

£6! what a loser!

[Tuerto]

Re: Your first wage?

Nothing to do with your post.... but I used to travel up and down to Lincolnshire 4 times a week. Up as far as Spalding.
How come you ended up there?

He doesn't like hills.

[valleys caveman]

Re: Your first wage?

He doesn't like hills.

Bloke I used to deliver to in Spalding told me his hill start on his driving test was on a ramp leading up to the library.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Your first wage?

I worked at Pearl Assurance in 1984. I think I was making £60 odd quid a week. I hated it and didn't last long. I went out for lunch one day, booked a flight to Ibiza, and never went back. They kept paying me for what seemed like ages.

[MOZZER2]

Re: Your first wage?

I worked at Pearl Assurance in 1984. I think I was making £60 odd quid a week. I hated it and didn't last long. I went out for lunch one day, booked a flight to Ibiza, and never went back. They kept paying me for what seemed like ages.

60 quid a week must have seemed a fortune then !

think i made it to £30 a week then in 1984

[xsnaggle]

Re: Your first wage?

I think I was really on about 5 or 6 quid a week in 1966 working in the peanut factory on Newport Road waiting for my O level results.
A year later I was in Chichester earning £3.10s which went up to £7.13s. I ended up with £7 a week because the 13s went in stamp and tax. The bastards they had me even then!!!