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[MikeDundee]

First job in 1983 wages was around £60 after tax etc., and also got bonuses, started as a glasshouse helper at Caithness Glass in Perth

[Marks DTM Calib]

Seem to recall it was about 680 quid in 1995 - 1 months wages.

Had many jobs before that...........but none an (official) full time job

[STMO123]

Started working for GPO telephones in 1969...7 Guineas a week.

[cem_devecioglu]

1988, 2 part time programming jobs when I was student.. approx .. 90 £, 200 £ per month..

[jereboam]

Started as a shop assistant, but I'm buggered if I can remember when or how much I earned.  Think it was 1966, and probably about £5 a week.  Posh shop though - Harrods.  Only time I got a weekly wage (if I did).

I think my next job - computer operator - paid £650 p.a. - well pleased with that.  Bought a Ford 100E and got a bedsit in Hampstead.

Never had to pay rent to my Mum, though.  I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back.

[Andy B]

.......  I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back.

Did they tell you ... or was it a 'surprise'?      

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Started as a shop assistant, but I'm buggered if I can remember when or how much I earned.  Think it was 1966, and probably about £5 a week.  Posh shop though - Harrods.  Only time I got a weekly wage (if I did).

I think my next job - computer operator - paid £650 p.a. - well pleased with that.  Bought a Ford 100E and got a bedsit in Hampstead.

Never had to pay rent to my Mum, though.  I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back.

I bet that felt good at the time Jereboam; always wanted one of those as one boyfriend had one. Great cars, easy to work on and very nippy- well for the time! 8-) 8-) 8-)

However by the time I received my first company car Ford's were onto the Escort Mk1, but I still regretted missing out on my own Anglia.

[amigov6]

What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
     Happy days. 8-)

[Lizzie_Zoom]

What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
     Happy days. 8-)

Now I know who nicked my fuel!!

[sir moanalot]

four groats, only joking... it was £30.50 for a 36 hour week at Key Markets (remember them) on the deli counter !  and the dole at that time was £26.50 whos the bleeding mug !!  

[willyboy]

  Under £2 quid in't mill (really) didnt stay long!! Sept 1959  kinell!

[amigov6]

What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
     Happy days. 8-)

Now I know who nicked my fuel!!

I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-)

[Lizzie_Zoom]

What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
     Happy days. 8-)

Now I know who nicked my fuel!!

I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-)

If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours!  

I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! ; )

PS What would you like your "punishment" to be?  Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
     Happy days. 8-)

Now I know who nicked my fuel!!

I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-)

If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours!  I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! ; )

PS What would you like your "punishment" to be?  Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!!

Quite right Lizzie.My friend had a MK3 2000GXL...white with a black vinyl roof on a M plate 1973/4.His key would open just about every other MK3 if memory serves.

[willyboy]

Same on many cars back then once keys got worn they nearly opened any of same model car