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  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    £3,500 per annum in 1985 working at London Bridge. My desk to platform 4 - 5 minutes. 12 minutes to Catford Bridge station. Best commute I ever had.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    did you drink in the copperfield in those days chicago
  • [cite]Posted By: northstandsteve[/cite]now £5k a week as a electrician

    LOL
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    [quote][cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]did you drink in the copperfield in those days chicago[/quote]

    Did indeed Nolly. Often a swifty on the way home, and back then regularly on a Friday night before going down the Prince Henry for afters.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    the prince is closed,but looks like a refurb,dont no if its getting done into flats or a pub again.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    £12 per week in 1976 as an apprentice car mechanic......didnt last that long and moved into printing which paid slightly better but not as much as people thought.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    1985 - £50.00 take home a week
  • Tel i was one in 1976 LOL
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    About £6,500 per annum at Lloyds TSB in 1987
  • Latimer
    Latimer Posts: 942
    37.5p per hour as a car park attendant in a local supermarket, £1.50 for 4 hours on a Saturday 1975

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  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    £5k per year at Warburton's bakery in Bolton. Some interesting football connections..

    my boss was the son of Jimmy Armfield

    Warburtons owned Bolton Wanderers - used to see then boss Phil Neal at the factory - all the time as he was brought in to be toasted by the Warburton family as things were going wrong.

    Working on the end of a conveyor belt, taking bread tins off & stacking them on pallets 9 hours a day, 6 days a week was former Man Utd, Man City, Newcastle & Wakes forward Wyn Davies.
  • did you meet mr warburton and is he like the adverts
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    I did - not sure which one they use today - i knew them all - it was a very, old fashioned Northern company in its management style - not much had changed since the 19th century.....you wouldn't have found management consultants, blue skies thinking or team building exercises in that place back then. The bakers really did spend their lunch breaks taking their whippets (who had been locked up in the car all morning) for a walk.
  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    edited April 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite] The bakers really did spend their lunch breaks taking their whippets (who had been locked up in the car all morning) for a walk.

    LOL I've just pissed myself reading this
  • £12 a week, paper round just started. : - )
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    First wage was £2.63ph in Tesco at Foots Cray in 1991.
    First salary £15k graduate trainee programmer 1997
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,437
    First saturday job - 17 quid a day in a fishmonger's in Nunhead

    First 'real' salaried job - nightclub bar manager - about 600 quid a week with 'tips' (i.e. thieving money that was for soft drinks - not ringing it through the till cos it was all post-mix and untraceable) :o)

    Left that when I was 21 for IT and didn't earn that amount again for about ten ****in years!
  • cafcinperth
    cafcinperth Posts: 1,688
    25 pound a week yts scheme as a painter
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,964
    £45k per annum, plus company car plus 30% bonus.

    like feck!

    £18k per year as a Graduate in Marketing in 2000
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,629
    A merchant navy apprentice in 1963 on £9/month, yes month, but booze and cigs were duty free and there's not much to spend it on a sea but in port was another story!

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,873
    Something like £4.8k pa - back in 1988.

    Relatively speaking, it's just about the richest i've ever been I reckon.