£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.
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£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.
£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 :hehe:
£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.
£28 per week. Apprentice, 1989.Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
£40 per week in 1976 as a buyer in a factory in Pengam Way.
No need to brag :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by lincoln blue
How come you ended up there?
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. :old:
£6 10s a week as a clerical assistant with Post Office Telephones (later BT) in November 1970.
£6! what a loser!Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
He doesn't like hills.Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
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 !Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
think i made it to £30 a week then in 1984
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!!!
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?
WTF did working in the peanut factory entail? :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 19bluebirds27
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.
£8 - 17 and 6 as an office boy in Panteg steelworks. 1968
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
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.
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.
RAF postings, loved Lincoln so decided to work/retire there after demob.Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
Been back in Wales, Carmarthen 11yrs and Whitchurch 7yrs since 2003 after nearly 40 years there, loved it and still visit regularly.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
£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.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
£103 a month take home pay in September 74. I didn't know what to do with it all!
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
£19, Rank Xerox apprentice 1975
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.
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by 19bluebirds27
I didn’t go far in woodies...:hehe:I was the same. Pair of c17 or chippie jeans about £80, polo top £45. Up to bolwells for a pair of Adidas jeansQuote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
Mill Lane Fruit Market, from the age of 12, loved the market life :thumbup:
God knows what I earned
£2.10s.0d per week in 1960. Marconi International Marine Co, Mountstuart Square Cardiff
Those were the days.
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
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 memoriesQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...-best-14868981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCmWPIAemPM
£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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT