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Remembering My First Wage Packets.
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I did all sorts of jobs whilst still at school, picking beetroots on a farm, selling bleach soap and pine disinfectant door to door, and carrying coal on the wagons at the age of thirteen.
Left school at sixteen, and had six weeks to kill before starting my apprenticeship, so took a job in a cotton mill for £9/week. Started my apprenticeship six weeks later for £4/week.
But I felt so grown up, a real worker and the world was my oyster.
Wage paid in a brown envelope, along with my wage slip, and a staple through it.
Couldn't get home fast enough to show my mum!
I gave her £2 for housekeeping and the rest was mine.
Gosh I was so happy!
So what are your memories of your first wage packet?
Left school at sixteen, and had six weeks to kill before starting my apprenticeship, so took a job in a cotton mill for £9/week. Started my apprenticeship six weeks later for £4/week.
But I felt so grown up, a real worker and the world was my oyster.
Wage paid in a brown envelope, along with my wage slip, and a staple through it.
Couldn't get home fast enough to show my mum!
I gave her £2 for housekeeping and the rest was mine.
Gosh I was so happy!
So what are your memories of your first wage packet?
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oh I bought an overcoat with my first postgrad pay but eight years before lab rat at porton, in lodgings salisbury, £32 a monf and lodgings £7 a week - and four - - 5 wk monfs in the year Jesus hand to mouf for two years
14:13 Fri 04th Dec 2020
I left school at 16 in 1958. Applied to post office for a job, turned me down. Got a job as office junior for a raincoat manufacturer at £3.50 per week. Post office then offered me a job at £3.00, turned it down as it was less. Had to hand my wage packet over to mum. She gave me 7/6 back and I had to pay my bus fare out of that.
My first job was working in a pork pie factory, at the age of 16 in 1969, between 5th form and 6th form. The basic pay was £6 per week but, when I started, I didn't know that we'd be given overtime and that there was a bonus payment on top of that too. So I was delighted when I found over £8 in my first pay packet ;-)
My next holiday job was two years later, between 6th form and college, working behind a bar. I was astounded to find that the pay, at £18 per week, was three times the basic rate that I'd been getting just two years before!
My next holiday job was two years later, between 6th form and college, working behind a bar. I was astounded to find that the pay, at £18 per week, was three times the basic rate that I'd been getting just two years before!
Yep, apprentice a fiver a week for the 1st year, payed weekly on a Friday. Gave mom her board but usually skint by Monday so borrow board back from mom until Friday ( is that called a week in hand ), no wonder I was skint with those girls and the price of brandy and babyshams ( I could have had four pints for the price of one of those things, didn't work half the time either ).
My first job...weekends and summer holidays...was for a German baker. Can't remember the pay, but free buns and pastries at the end of the day made it worthwhile. First proper job in 1967, after art school, was a small ad agency. If I remember correctly, my salary was $85 per week...with 25 going to mum. My goal was $100 per week, reached that 2 years and 2 jobs later.
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