Who remembers their first payday?
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Discussing at work yesterday with the under 20’s(I’m 57),couldn’t believe my first wage packet was the grand total of £25! Well it was the yts in 1983.
Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
Edited by Speedywurzel on Tuesday 30th July 12:09
I do actually remember that time, not the exact day but I remember going from a part time job at college earning £170 a month to a full time wage and bringing home about £700. This was back in 2000.
I remember it hitting me that I'd be bringing home a lot more after a full month of work than I had been! Can't remember what I spent it on but I did pay my mum and dad £100 rent a month out of it.
I remember it hitting me that I'd be bringing home a lot more after a full month of work than I had been! Can't remember what I spent it on but I did pay my mum and dad £100 rent a month out of it.
Not counting a paper round. My first job when I was about 24 was a bus boy in a restaurant. Got paid cash at the end of the week through a hatch in the accounts office in a little purple plastic envelope. £1.50/hour I was paid. Slave labour. Then got made waiter and it went up to £2.50/hour but you could easily make much more from tips.
I dont remember the actual day but at 16 i got my apprenticeship and was on £100 a week, that was 2012.
Paid board, put £50 a week a way to pay for car insurance when the day came and just did whatever with the rest
mad to think i made it work when i look back but i felt loaded at the time 
Paid board, put £50 a week a way to pay for car insurance when the day came and just did whatever with the rest
mad to think i made it work when i look back but i felt loaded at the time I had various paper rounds and Saturday jobs where I was just given cash from the till, got my first proper wage packet in July 1973 when I started as an apprentice motorcycle mechanic at Marsdens Motorcycles in Leeds, five and a half days , half day Wednesday ( anyone else remember them ? ) , and all day Saturday for £8.00 a week. About 18p an hour, mind you a pint of Tetleys mild only cost 12p so I could get pissed for less than 50p !
Speedywurzel said:
Discussing at work yesterday with the under 20’s(I’m 57),couldn’t believe my first wage packet was the grand total of £25! Well it was the yts in 1983.
Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
My dad took on a YTS kid on £25/week. I thought it insultingly low so told my dad to keep the £25 base but put him on commission as he was in a sales role. Soon afterwards, he was regularly earning over £200 through the comp plan during the YTS program. He became the most successful sales person in the company and stayed until my dad was forced to retire through ill health. Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
Edited by Speedywurzel on Tuesday 30th July 12:09
I was 16 and working two hours an evening cleaning offices for £3.50 an hour in 1990. I never got any pocket money from my parents, so suddenly having £35 a week meant I felt loaded.
I spent it all on an Amiga (£400) a printer (£300) and games (£25 a time). A year or so later I spent £300 on a Jap Import Super Famicom and games at £50 a time.
What a total waste of money, but it is what I was into at the time. The Super Famicom games at the time were incredible.
I spent it all on an Amiga (£400) a printer (£300) and games (£25 a time). A year or so later I spent £300 on a Jap Import Super Famicom and games at £50 a time.
What a total waste of money, but it is what I was into at the time. The Super Famicom games at the time were incredible.
Speedywurzel said:
Discussing at work yesterday with the under 20’s(I’m 57),couldn’t believe my first wage packet was the grand total of £25! Well it was the yts in 1983.
Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
Mine was £18 a week working at a trout farm in Wales which was enough to raise a loan from the parents of £230 with a 'flexible' repayment plan to buy an almost new FS1-E as the farm was in the middle of nowhere. They had trout there the size of salmon and that summer there was a disease that was killing the fish and every one of them had to be treated/dipped in a bath from the tiddlers to the whoppers and there were thousands of them.Any how how I spent it,gave mum a tenner for rent, saved a fiver and went down to Poole on the bus with some mates on the Saturday morning only to blow the other tenner on my first ever McDonald’s, our price and bought the Smiths what difference does it make and then blew the rest in the arcade on the harbour front!
Still did the same six months later but swapped the bus for my first moped a popsicle purple Fizzy! Bought for £100!
Edited by Speedywurzel on Tuesday 30th July 12:09
On the Saturday worked at the fishmongers for £5 and towards the end of the afternoon the anglers would bring in their catch of salmon from the river Wye and Severn and the boss who was a wealthy and fairly generous chap would pay them in cash. The fish would be packed in ice straightaway and sold to the top restaurants and hotels in the area the same day, times were so busy I had to sub the paper round out to a neighbour
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