Your first wage?

[19bluebirds27]

Re: Your first wage?

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?

[valleys caveman]

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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!!!

WTF did working in the peanut factory entail? :hehe:

[Cyclops]

Re: Your first wage?

Paper round deliver the Echo on £10 a week after school in 1993.

Paper round in 1960. Worked every morning before school, Saturdays and Sundays and every evening 'cept Sundays. Had to go back to the shop on Fridays 'cos it was Radio and TV Times day. Pay? 14/- = .70p a week.
Best part was making the first footsteps in the snow and seeing the girl at No 26.
Bought my first electric guitar on the never-ever soon after starting the round. It was just great to have some money to jingle-jangle.

[dandywarhol]

Re: Your first wage?

£8 - 17 and 6 as an office boy in Panteg steelworks. 1968

[Tuerto]

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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.

:hehe:

[J R Hartley]

Re: Your first wage?

Used to get about £12 for half hour Sunday morning paper round. It was great people with loads of change from the night out on a Saturday and still half cut so good tips. Best paid job I ever had. Did it until I was 21.

[J R Hartley]

Re: Your first wage?

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.

[lincoln blue]

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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?

RAF postings, loved Lincoln so decided to work/retire there after demob.
Been back in Wales, Carmarthen 11yrs and Whitchurch 7yrs since 2003 after nearly 40 years there, loved it and still visit regularly.

[NYCBlue]

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60 quid a week must have seemed a fortune then !

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

It actually didn't seem that much. Not enough to make me want to stay there anyway. When I was still in school I used to work for NCP in Westgate Street on Saturdays. In the summer holidays, I would go full time and work all over. Edward Street, Wood Street, Mill Lane, Greyfriars road etc. and I was making £100 a week. (long days mind) In Edward Street, you could fiddle at least £10 a day on top of that. It all went though. Clothes food and booze. Never saved a penny. I spent a fortune at Paradise Garage.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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£18 per week working in a fruit & veg shop in Rhiwbina village (1977). It was just a stop-gap to save some money before I entered the Merchant Navy Training College.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Your first wage?

It actually didn't seem that much. Not enough to make me want to stay there anyway. When I was still in school I used to work for NCP in Westgate Street on Saturdays. In the summer holidays, I would go full time and work all over. Edward Street, Wood Street, Mill Lane, Greyfriars road etc. and I was making £100 a week. (long days mind) In Edward Street, you could fiddle at least £10 a day on top of that. It all went though. Clothes food and booze. Never saved a penny. I spent a fortune at Paradise Garage.

Paradise Garage, eh! - I have this image in my mind of you working at the NCP car park wearing bondage trousers and suede brogues! :hehe:

[the other bob wilson]

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£103 a month take home pay in September 74. I didn't know what to do with it all!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Sonys In Bridgend

A place of death and decay

Loads of city fans and young ladies from the valleys so it had its plus points

[Des Parrot]

Re: Your first wage?

£19, Rank Xerox apprentice 1975

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

Re: Your first wage?

My first job was packing bananas at Fyffes in Pontypridd in 1985. I had the job on the proviso that Fyffes Cardiff wanted to win the company’s national cricket competition and providing we were still in the competition I could carry on packing bananas. We lost in the semi but I still remember being well chuffed that my final weeks pay was a massive £80.