Paphos Life

My first was £5 per week as an office junior ( 1965 ).
Next, again as an office junior was £5 per week ( 1966 ).
1967 brought me a rise in wage £6.50 per week ( storeman ).
Next job change was to the Local Authority as a bus conductor @ £11.00 + loads overtime.
In 1971 I became a fireman and the first wage was £25.44 for 56 hour week.
The shifts were 3 days, 3 nights and then 3 off.
I remained in the Fire Service for 30 years.

£2.50p pw Apprentice plasterer, 1963.

I used to work part-time after school 3 evenings and all day Saturday at ASDA when I was 15yrs old and left there after I turned 18yrs old to take up a job in the Inland Revenue on a full time basis in November 1976.

If I worked full time for ASDA during the school holidays, my weekly wage was £23.
My full time weekly wage in the Inland Revenue was £17.

Now, who is it who always thought Civil Servants were all overpaid???

I worked in a kennel live in. 3 days a month off. £1 a week with 10 hrs a day. Labour of love. The novelty wore off after about a year off empty promises.

£13 a week In the Greenock shipyards in 1976/77.
I joined the police in 1979 and thought I was a millionaire when I got my first wage plus a monthly rent allowance.

As a national serviceman, while in basic training at Catterick, I received the princely sum of 21/- (shillings) per week or GBP1.05. I was demobbed 54 months later as a Class A2 tradesman (radio mechanic) on £4 4s 0d/week. After that, I worked as a radio engineer (five year university qualification) for £5/week gross.

I started my first job in an office for Dutch Guilders 210 per month in 1964, which would now be about € 95 per month. A year later I changed jobs and earned Guilders 325 = approx. € 150 per month working for commodity brokers.

First job 1963, photoprinter at the town's Telephone Manager's Office. Pay approx. £4.00 a week

Mine was £56.44 as an apprentice printer

I earned one pound seventeen shillings and six pence,,as an apprentice joiner ( aged just gone fifteen ).Most of my mates at the time where earning about 6 or 7 quid in the local cotton mills.But dear old dad,god bless him,insisted i learned a trade.

I cannot remember exactly how much I was paid as a second lieutenant in 1969 (quite generously in my opinion) until I realised the costs of stabling my horse would cost more than I earned. A salutary moment indeed …

Mine was £5 a week as an office junior at Kodak, Harrow in 1960

In 1963 when I finished my Joinery apprenticeship My full time wage was 16 pounds a week.. Shortly after that I went self employed and paid myself 20 pounds a week.

My first wage was £2 per week, delivering newspapers and on the weekends, collecting the week's money. Horrible sweaty dirty work, the newsprint rubbed off onto everything. I hated having to go into the local bikers' bar on a Saturday lunchtime, and some houses were sooo smelly I didn't want to go beyond the doorstep despite being told to "come in while I fetch your money".

Happy Days
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My first wage in 1964 was £17 per month, as a cabin boy, or ( ships cat ) on a tramp merchant ship, trading worldwide, the single voyage lasted 10 months, I loved every minute of it.

My first job in a Manchester department store was as a temporary sales assistant in the Christmas Cacti Dept. Wage £5.00 per week, gross. After Christmas I was sent to the Active Sports Dept, selling mainly Ski Clothes as a junior sales. For roughly the same wage, but more interesting. This was1962/63.

Dee

trevnhil wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 9:09 am In 1963 when I finished my Joinery apprenticeship My full time wage was 16 pounds a week.. Shortly after that I went self employed and paid myself 20 pounds a week.

Thats a co-incidence thats the year i finished my joinery apprenticeship

My first job was in 1979 as a student during the semester holidays (as a helper in a factory producing pistons). Salary was DM 2800 (~€ 1400). Enough to buy my first third hand car.

Apprentice at the Electricity Board, 1970, eight pound a week, Pint of larger was 20p and a brand new mini was 600 pound.