What was your first wage?

PostWhat was your first wage? by **Dowbocop** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:19 pm

Mine was £8 an hour for BPP Accountancy Training, I managed to streamline a process during my work experience there and they invited me back one summer. I was quite lucky in the pay stakes, I was temping for a position that only graduates could get full time.

I'm asking because I went past an Aldi in Liverpool today and they're offering £8/hour for store assistants. Am I going completely mad, or is that too much for shelf stacking? Makes me wish I was an undergraduate again, I'd be in there like a shot!

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Mockmaster** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:21 pm

£4.25 p/h I think. Delivering Hovis on a bicycle.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **PuppetBoy** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:21 pm

£8 an hour? :shock:

My first job would have been when I was working for WHSmiths when I was 16, so about a fiver an hour tops? Actually, probably less than that.

EDIT: No wait, I did a paper-round in school. That was £8 a week.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **i.mosfet** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:22 pm

My first wage was 12p a house, as a paper boy. Now a fully qualified network consultant I make x10 that every minute, how times change.

About 10% of all sales I made through delivering Betaware catalogues :lol:

I gave it up because the money is gooseberry fool.

My first 'propper' job. was £3.70 an hour as a waiter.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Oh Teh Noes** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:27 pm

My first wage was £2 for an entire paper round. Sundays, early in the morning. Long round, too. I quit after a while, it wasn't worth doing.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Floex** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:54 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:My first wage was £2 for an entire paper round. Sundays, early in the morning. Long round, too. I quit after a while, it wasn't worth doing.

strawberry floating hell, you got screwed mate :lol:

Mine, I believe was £20 a week. Sundays were the worst, all those supplements

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **smurphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:55 pm

£15 a week paper round. Then £4.96 per hour in Tesco, now £4.73 per hour in Woolworths, but it's about 10x better.

£16 a week paper round, which included turning up to the shop on a monday and tuesday at quarter past 6 to sort out the papers and serve a few customers before school.

Then after two years of that I got a proper job and started off at about £4.75 an hour, which has steadily increased to the £6.50 I get now.

£4.50 an hour serving morons at Sainsburys.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **satriales** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:29 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:My first wage was £2 for an entire paper round. Sundays, early in the morning. Long round, too. I quit after a while, it wasn't worth doing.

My first wage was also a Sunday paper round. I did three rounds on Sunday morning and got £20 altogether. I'd carry two full paper bags and do the first two rounds in one go and then come back for the final one, the whole thing would take about an hour and a half. I was only supposed to get about £12 but the manager gave me a pay rise just before she quit and I ended up keeping those rounds for about three years.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Skarjo** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:36 pm

£12 a week delivering papers 7 days a week. Paperboys really do get screwed with pay.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Alkaline** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:36 pm

I don't know how much it was an hour but I used to get about £60 a week or something. I was working in the kitchen of a restaurant, just cleaning dishes and occasionaly helping with some of the desserts. There were 2 chefs, a fat english guy called Dave and a french guy called Antion. Dave used to always shout at me for being to slow but Antion would always stick up for me and make me free food.

Good times.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Pred** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:45 pm

For my paper round I got £24 a week for delivering papers Monday to Saturday. After a while I started doing a Sunday round which earned me an additional £10 a week.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **bear** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:47 pm

IR£170 a week for working in a piggery.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **game_pro** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:52 pm

£10 a day for working in a grocers on the weekends

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **OLIN** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:11 pm

£13.50 a week work experience - a full pound more than dole money in 1980.

£4800 per annum (full time!) for being a clerk at Eagle Star. I got a rise of about £400 a few months later and was pathetically pleased with it.

Luckily I earn almost twice that now 8-)

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Lotus** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:24 pm

£7 an hour doing the night shift in a bakery.

PostRe: What was your first wage? by **Hesk** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:32 pm

£7 a week doing an after school paper round. This then went up to about £12 when it became a stupidly huge round.

After that I got £4 an hour helping out at a bakery one summer, then a couple of years later got a job at Spar, earning £4.26 an hour, which increased to £5.26 on my 18th birthday.

Now I work for something gooseberry fool like about £4.65 or whatever minimum wage is these days at Subway which will only go up when I go up a minimum wage band (at 22). Or I leave.

Ho hum.

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