£103 a month take home pay in September 74. I didn't know what to do with it all!
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£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.
Mill Lane Fruit Market, from the age of 12, loved the market life
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 memories
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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
£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.
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.
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
My old man used to take me around his works in the docks about that age, it was a crazy place. They made anchors and chains. Massive piles of them everywhere. Furnaces, molten steel, dark, crazy noise all the time. He often said so and so lost an eye, finger or arm today. One guy died. It was a right baptism of fire when I worked there for 6 months at 18, the bosses son. I got so much grief from the other workers it was unreal, 25 years of pay back to the boss I reckon.
Great learning curve though....nothing was as crazy as working there ever again.
I worked at my dads place for a few weeks. It was a supplier of plumbing parts in Zurich. I spent a few weeks counting widgets with the gastarbeiter in the warehouse. They started at about 7 and someone would go down the bakers at 9 to get croissants and beer! How times have changed.