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[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Summer of 1976 £16 pounds for Woods and sons of Bedford, where i started as an apprentice plasterer, i had to give my mum £10 for my keep so i had a whole £6 pounds left to myself , Beer/petol was very cheap then, nearly four pints for a £, and petrol to run my fizzy DX50cc, LOL them were the days . How about you ?

 

[Andy Allen]

1982 £25 started for mj lavenders used to fit vynal tiles and carpets on the building sites and he took the tiling on as a side line. Had some old guy been tiling for years and he wanted a trainee and I got the job..

Stay there for 4years then took over some of the sites with the guy who trained me.....built the business up to where we were employing 10 tilers. Till the recession in the late 80 early 90 hit.....but thats a whole different story. .

 

[Chalker]

I first full time wage to me was 1980 started for a local plumber as a YTS £16 a week.

 

[Chalker]

Bet somone comes on amd says they got a penny a year tho!!!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=kp&v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

 

[jonnyc]

1977 airport courier services. £ 35.00 per week plus all the profits from bringing in alchohol/ cigs and cigars and selling on .
acs was the first overseas courier service in uk well before tnt and dhl etcc.
we used to fly out of heathrow every day to a different city or two in the world and deliver letters pacakages/newsreel by hand .
best trip i had was flying to los angeles to pick upa toothbrush from warren beatty house. i then flew back to stockholm and took a boat out to an island to deliver .ridiculous waste of his money!!

 

[Mr Tiler]

£2.50 per hour when I was 15 throwing bits of plastic into a mill and bagging it up not the worst job I ever had but it was the lowest paying

 

[Perry]

1968 £5 a week 7 days a week 13 hr days 6 days Sunday was only 11 hours. Working for my old man ,in a shop.

 

[On one]

£15 a week on a Yops scheme.in 82. Made a further£10 a week on the transport subsidy and hitched the 12 miles home!

 

[Peter]

First year apprentice, £20 from my boss and £40 from the tech plus a £10 travel allowance, in September 2003. 70 quid went quite far when I had £15 housekeep, didn't drink or smoke and £2.50-£3 filled the tank of my Honda MT50 for a week. Used to manage to save about £40 a week. :lol:

Christmas 2003 the boss gave me a pay rise to £25. Felt like an international drug smuggler.

 

[Ajax123]

1985 for me... £53.75 working in a men's fashion shop... I don't get much more than that now!