I did a fair stint at Pizza places and the free food was the best thing about the place. Pizza cooked so thick with toppings that it had to be cooked several times through.
So much pepperoni that my heart used to miss several beats
What was your first job, and how much did it pay?
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I did a fair stint at Pizza places and the free food was the best thing about the place. Pizza cooked so thick with toppings that it had to be cooked several times through.
So much pepperoni that my heart used to miss several beats
mrsfran
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I did a stint at Burger King in 1995. £2.05 an hour, and we had to pay for any food we ate. Everyone hated me because I didn't go to the local comp. I walked out after 6 weeks.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
My first job was at the ripe old age of 20, in a pub. It was 1998, iirc, and I was paid something between £3.00 and £3.50/hour I think. I've still got my old pay slips somewhere, I might check later.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
First Saturday job was working as a waitress (sadly not in a cocktail bar!) in the restaurant of the amusingly named Brown Muffs Department Store in Skipton.
Then I sold shoes in the shoe concession of a Dorothy Perkins store, worked in the Fruit and Veg Department at a local supermarket (Hillards - now defunct), had holiday jobs at the Three Cooks Bakery and various cafes/restaurants in Skipton then first full time job was as a silver service waitress in the Banqueting Department at London Zoo.
No idea what I was paid but with my first 'proper' i.e. full time, pay packet I bought a pair of white jeans. I thought I was so cool
Then I sold shoes in the shoe concession of a Dorothy Perkins store, worked in the Fruit and Veg Department at a local supermarket (Hillards - now defunct), had holiday jobs at the Three Cooks Bakery and various cafes/restaurants in Skipton then first full time job was as a silver service waitress in the Banqueting Department at London Zoo.
No idea what I was paid but with my first 'proper' i.e. full time, pay packet I bought a pair of white jeans. I thought I was so cool
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Fruit and veg stall on Northcote Rd market, £10 a day for 10-12 hr day (this was 1978-79), plus fruit and veg.
First full-time job was at a printers in Hammersmith, working as a trainee machine minder in 1982. Training consisted of a cheerful man called Trevor who was always off on 'errands' and the machine an ancient Multilith with which I turned everything into a gunge of ink and shredded paper. The safety guard came off in my hand as I pulled it back for the umpteenth time and that was the end of that job.
Don't remember what it paid, didn't even last a week.
Don't remember what it paid, didn't even last a week.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Fruit and veg stall on Northcote Rd market, £10 a day for 10-12 hr day (this was 1978-79), plus fruit and veg.
Oh that remionds me I forgot - I worked on a china stall and then a handbag stall in Skipton market for a bit.
Used to be good as I could see all the boys from school that I fancied walk past during the day. And maybe one day one of them would stop and talk to me....
ivebeenhigh
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£2 / hour as a milkman/boy when I was 13. I did from 6 am till 7:30 am twice a week and then 5 hours on a saturday (double round plus collecting cash, I am shit hot at mental arithmetic, especailly around multiples of .35, .36 and .37).
That meant I earnt £16 a week. Plus all the semi skimmed i could drink. Tips at Christmas were good. Ended up with about £150 on the saturdays before christmas.
That meant I earnt £16 a week. Plus all the semi skimmed i could drink. Tips at Christmas were good. Ended up with about £150 on the saturdays before christmas.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1978, saturdays at a green grocer, 4 hours in the afternoon at 66p an hour, £2.50
my dad stopped my £1.50 a week pocket money "you're earning your own way now son"
i left there 4 years later despite having a massive hike to £1.12 an hour, i was poached by the iron mongers, £1.50 an hour
first full time job, 1983, £2800 a year at lloyds bank, I felt minted
my dad stopped my £1.50 a week pocket money "you're earning your own way now son"i left there 4 years later despite having a massive hike to £1.12 an hour, i was poached by the iron mongers, £1.50 an hour
first full time job, 1983, £2800 a year at lloyds bank, I felt minted
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Blimey - that is a good wage for the work! However not being the most pleasant job - worked in enough restaurants and pubs to know that
- I'd say it was thoroughly deserved and earned.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
First "proper" job was a gardener for Fulham and Hammersmith parks dept, in 1985, paying about £85 pw, paid on a Friday afternoon by a wages clerk who came round with little brown envelopes, which we had to sign for. £85 a lot of money back then. £20 to my mother for rent, £10 for an eighth, football on the Saturday and enough saved over for a few beers during the week.
Ceej
Where is my mind?
Saturday job £6 a day working in a hardware shop in Willesden Green - always came home stinking of parafin, having visions of combusting on the bus when someone lit up, which was allowed in '76!
Upgraded to Maynards sweet shop in Hampstead or the princely sum of £12 a day (minted) and all the sweets I could eat - coupled with working near enough to my nan to go to her for lunch, and my nan could cook for England, contributed directly to my lifelong lardass problems.
First full time job was working in a library for £26 pw.
Upgraded to Maynards sweet shop in Hampstead or the princely sum of £12 a day (minted) and all the sweets I could eat - coupled with working near enough to my nan to go to her for lunch, and my nan could cook for England, contributed directly to my lifelong lardass problems.
First full time job was working in a library for £26 pw.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
i had a saturday jib in a hardware store - used to know all my bolts and screws
the paint was stored in the basement, and if i had to get a lot of paint in the day, boy those fumes
King Biscuit Time
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£5.02 a week delivering free papers in 1994. Took me about 4 hours to get the round finished (with the obligatory few dumped on the way round), but getting paid in paper money when I was 13 seemed incredible.
small world, applied to H&FC for the same job in 82, iirc it was to be in Bishops Park, ended up working for them that year but not in the parks.
northernhord
Active Member
Butchers shop part time, about three quid odd an hour
toblerone3
Grrrrr
I swept the floors of the metalwork rooms at school for about £1.40 an hour in the early 1980s.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
So who had the shittest pay? We need inflation-adjusted figures.
Well, my second job, which I started a few weeks after passing my driving test, was delivery driving for an Indian takeaway. It had its compensations - unlimited free curries and getting to buzz round in my employer's Ford Sierra - but I was paid by the delivery, and on a quiet night I could struggle to break £1.50 per hour. That was in 1996.
Macca's and it was minimum wage, about $4.25 in Australia in the 90's.
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