Your first wage.
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brickwall said:
I also seem to remember it worked out at something like £7.50 per hour after tax, which wasn't so fantastic.
I've just done some quick calculations and I think that you must have been working around 80 hours a week for that to be accurate. £125/week would've been your tax allowance in 2010 I think. Someone let me know if my maths is right (I'm sure I've made an error or misunderstood something or completely overlooked somewhere):890-125=765
0.2*765=153
765-153=612=take home pay
612/7.5=81.6
After reading many of the above doing the same as me and contributing to the household finances - I am surprised at how many parents today let their kids stay at home at almost no cost at all. I was talking to (chatting up…) a divorced woman last night whose eldest stays at home completely free of charge. He’s 24, and earns £40K with his bonus…. She’s getting peed off at him for not wanting to get a place of his own… you don’t say!
15 quid a day as a roofers labourer at the age of 16 in 1986, gave mum a tenner a week for board, washing, food, TV in my room, private taxi service, free holidays once a year, presents at birthday and Xmas and cottage pie every Wednesday, which on reflection, was outstanding value for money.
First summer job as a teenager was at a local estate agents in Harrogate. The owner was a family friend and I was just getting some workplace experience. My wage was, on paper, a measly £25 per week in 1995. I didn't object because it wasn't a hard job and it was the sort of estate agents where you got to meet famous people - my favourite at the time being helping Blackburn Rovers' Stuart Ripley while he was in the office. I also enjoyed getting out ''n' about meeting people in the area. I didn't end up going into estate agency or anything like, but it was a happy time 
The funny thing is I can't even remember the number but I remember the details of the vehicles very clearly!
I worked on a farm at 16 and when I turned 17 the farmer noticed I was driving. Chucked me the keys to the series 2 Landrover and sent moving staff around all the local farms as needed. Officially the heaviest clutch in the world and I had never heard of a synchromesh at that point so him telling me there wasn't one meant nothing until I discovered what it did mean!
Did that job every school holiday for 2 years, best job I ever had. I do remember it was paid in cash in a brown envelope but I think it varied from week to week. I didn't care I just loved driving all the different vehicles, mostly with no training and probably no insurance but at 17 I wasn't about to ask. Tractors are epic fun to drive and really easy to crash, manning the lettuce rig tractor is boring as hell though.
I worked on a farm at 16 and when I turned 17 the farmer noticed I was driving. Chucked me the keys to the series 2 Landrover and sent moving staff around all the local farms as needed. Officially the heaviest clutch in the world and I had never heard of a synchromesh at that point so him telling me there wasn't one meant nothing until I discovered what it did mean!
Did that job every school holiday for 2 years, best job I ever had. I do remember it was paid in cash in a brown envelope but I think it varied from week to week. I didn't care I just loved driving all the different vehicles, mostly with no training and probably no insurance but at 17 I wasn't about to ask. Tractors are epic fun to drive and really easy to crash, manning the lettuce rig tractor is boring as hell though.
£8/week doing a paper round around 2000ish I guess.
Then moved to a pub kitchen on £3.50/hr.
First full time job as a student year in industry was £12,500 in 2007.
Graduate job paid £24129 and increased rapidly from there through the grad scheme.
Weirdly I'm sure I felt richest when I was at school working in the pub!
Then moved to a pub kitchen on £3.50/hr.
First full time job as a student year in industry was £12,500 in 2007.
Graduate job paid £24129 and increased rapidly from there through the grad scheme.
Weirdly I'm sure I felt richest when I was at school working in the pub!
bucksmanuk said:
After reading many of the above doing the same as me and contributing to the household finances - I am surprised at how many parents today let their kids stay at home at almost no cost at all. I was talking to (chatting up…) a divorced woman last night whose eldest stays at home completely free of charge. He’s 24, and earns £40K with his bonus…. She’s getting peed off at him for not wanting to get a place of his own… you don’t say!
Part of the issue now is that very few can afford to move out and/or buy houses as they might have done in the 80's or 90's on beginner salaries (admittedly £40k is taking the piss!). So making your child pay you a third of their pay etc in rent/keep simply means they can't or won't save anything and will be with you for even longer!
te job though!Can't actually remember the figures, but I worked for Jessops on a weekend for the absolute minimum they could legally pay a 17 year old. I did like that place, a lot of people still got photos from 35 mm or APS film cameras back then, digital was still new and fangled for the mainstream. Some interesting pictures passed through those printers.
I moved on to casual life guarding which actually wasn't a bad job for college student. Fairly flexible and comfortably a few quid over minimum hourly wage. IIRC around £7 an hour or something like that. I did also work at David Lloyd as a lifeguard. They paid much less, something like £4.50/hr, but graciously allowed you what was effectively a free membership and decent staff discount on bar food; as if the one thing you really wanted to do in your spare time was spend more of it at that infernal place!
I remember I had a forest green, R-reg, Ford Ka in its most basic form; keep fit windows, no abs, no power steering, no central locking. Heck I think even the radio might have secretly been a wind-up! Not a single electronic gizmo on that thing. Was a blast to drive, it didn't weigh anything and the old 8 valve 1.3 engine from god-knows what era seemed totally bomb proof!
My OH tells me she used to make great summer money stuffing letters and filling pork pies in a factory and the like.
I moved on to casual life guarding which actually wasn't a bad job for college student. Fairly flexible and comfortably a few quid over minimum hourly wage. IIRC around £7 an hour or something like that. I did also work at David Lloyd as a lifeguard. They paid much less, something like £4.50/hr, but graciously allowed you what was effectively a free membership and decent staff discount on bar food; as if the one thing you really wanted to do in your spare time was spend more of it at that infernal place!
I remember I had a forest green, R-reg, Ford Ka in its most basic form; keep fit windows, no abs, no power steering, no central locking. Heck I think even the radio might have secretly been a wind-up! Not a single electronic gizmo on that thing. Was a blast to drive, it didn't weigh anything and the old 8 valve 1.3 engine from god-knows what era seemed totally bomb proof!
My OH tells me she used to make great summer money stuffing letters and filling pork pies in a factory and the like.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Saturday 4th March 23:44
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