First job,first wage.

[Warning may contain nuts]

Glass collector at Philips park hall In 1982 paid £7 for a 6 hour shift, my mate told me there was always jobs going and to apply.
I did and the week later he got the sack and I took his job, some good laughs working there, pity it's gone now.

 

[LWashington]

Paper round early 1980s , can't remember how much it was. I saved the money to buy games for my ZX Spectrum, which half the time my mum would end up buying for me anyway.

 

[dark 'n stormy]

Trainee Technician Apprentice (TTA) for Post Office Trelephones. £3-19s-6d per week.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Trainee Technician Apprentice (TTA) for Post Office Trelephones. £3-19s-6d per week.

were they called trelephones back in the day :)

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

1986, butchers asst part time age 14 @ the spar next to waggon and horses top of Handforth. Earning about £15 pw for all day Saturday and a couple of nights after school each week. 14 hrs in total....

Fucking hated it

 

[ob]

Compositor for local paper £15 a week in 1978

 

[NI Blue]

1981 failed A levels and got a job as steam roller driver at £70 per week cash in hand. 4 months later became trainee accountant earning £31 per week Gross !!!!

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Selling Hotdogs at Stalybridge Celtic in 1966.

No pay, but all the hotdogs I could eat.

 

[yeseye]

Got suspended from school for fighting with Liam Gallaghers school in 87 so went digging holes on the Gas/Water etc, £100 pw in the hand.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Shopping Giant, shelf stacker. Don't know the wage, slept since then! Paid weekly cash in a brown envelope (sounds like a familiar method of payment that lives on to this day in other professions)

Me too £600 a month in the Lateshop. Hated it!