keepitcovert 842 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 First proper packet I paid tax on 1987 £150 landscaping and I still had a sub of the boss the following Monday lolsubs were the norm back then lol A guy i worked with was nicknamed depth charge, he was always after a sub. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keepitcovert 842 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 how much was your's.. mine was three pound three shilling's..nautical school..first trip at sea, picked up thirty odd quid..three week trip,,landed three thousand odd kit..a kit in them days was ten stone..ten bob millionaire's we was..lol.........happy days.. Did you sail from grimsby or hull mate,i remember the ten bob millionaires with the taxis on stanby outside the pubs on hessle rd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 42,558 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 £10 a pay in 6 weeks holidays picking up stones on Virginia park golf course for my mate dartys old man when they first built it early 90's. Gang of 8 of us started, after the first week they dropped like flies... Myself and my mate holzhey lasted the full 6 lol. First proper job was Cwm Darren country park, trainiee countryside ranger in 96 used to take home £ a week, most weeks I'd get extra cash because we used to sell firewood and erect stock fencing hobbling for farmers etc.best days of my life lol £15 Lodge, £25 to my old nan for littlewoods catalogue lol, the rest on cans of breaker and hashish for the week. Atb dc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outofnowhere 93 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 £26 a week if I worked a Saturday morning as a apprentice mechanic. Wanted to be a joiner but with 3 million odd unemployed I took whatever I was offered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 I was on one of them Youth opportunity programs in 1981 I was paid £ 23.50 a week Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MickC 1,825 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 1988 YTS Joiner £27 per week + £5 bus fare . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,384 Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 Selling squidgy black at 14 lol Red Leb for me, same age 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bunnyblatter 1,012 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 £110 in a brown envelope on a Friday after breaking my back on the shutter joinery and concreting all week. Was skint on a Monday again lol. Those were the days of no responsiblities. '90 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robbo 802 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 £22.. IN 1977 working down the local pit. Still got my first three wage slips in a tin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,092 Posted August 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 how much was your's.. mine was three pound three shilling's..nautical school..first trip at sea, picked up thirty odd quid..three week trip,,landed three thousand odd kit..a kit in them days was ten stone..ten bob millionaire's we was..lol.........happy days.. Did you sail from grimsby or hull mate,i remember the ten bob millionaires with the taxis on stanby outside the pubs on hessle rd. gy mate..but my old man was a yorkie.. gypsyville..but was excepted by the gy lads lol..and now there's nothing down dock apart for the windcat boats..all the old characters are all long gone now..sad.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 7,765 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 £22.. IN 1977 working down the local pit. Still got my first three wage slips in a tin. I started at the pit in 79 and after doing all my training went roadlaying remember first wage packet being about £55 a big jump from the £25 I was drawing working on a building site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 2,554 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 Selling squidgy black at 14 lol Red Leb for me, same age red leb wrapped in musln cloth , gold seal and red seal squidgy black ha ha ha takes me back f**k me i'm a poet and didn't know it 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 19,119 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 Selling squidgy black at 14 lol Red Leb for me, same age red leb wrapped in musln cloth , gold seal and red seal squidgy black ha ha ha takes me back f**k me i'm a poet and didn't know it Lad who I use to buy of you would give him a tenner and he'd bite a chunk of a 9bar... Them were the days lol 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trigger2 3,100 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 £45 pound a week for doing YTS scheme on a farm back in 1995. i got my jaw broke one friday night, decided to go to the hospitial on the monday morning for a Xray needed 6 weeks off work for that, never went back to that job again. went back to work as a builders labourer after that. remember it took ages for the skin to harden on my shoulder from using the hodd. best days of my life i was in the best shape ever. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonah. 775 Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 £15 aged 13 (1989). pot washing and sweeping floors in the local butchers £1 per hour, all day Saturday and 3 nights after school Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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