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how much did you get paid for your first job?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
i get £15 for 6 hours which works out at £2.50 an hour, sometimes i get tips.

i was just wondering how much you lot got paid for your first job i.e. when you were about 15

i know its crap money at my place but i kinda like it there so im not complaining (most of the time)

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i got 5.74 an hour at my first job. I only ever got about 5.00 worth of tips a day tho, so yeah.

    i now get about 12/13 an hours so i've moved up in the world :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I got £10-15 a day, working 9am til 4pm, without a real lunch break (more of a sandwich at my desk, mouthfuls between phone calls, kinda thing) in an estate agents when I was 16-18. I started on £10 a day and after about a year they put it up to £15. I left a few weeks after my 18th birthday because they wouldn't put my wages up (amongst other reasons).

    I really was doing it more for the experience than the money (at the beginning at least!), and without that experience, I wouldn't have got my new job, so maybe it was worth it...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I got about £3.40 at Wax Lyrical, then at Marks and Pencer I got about £3.90, which went up once I turned 18. When I worked at the theatre I got £4.20 despite it being work for a local authority, whose staff are legally not allowed to pay less than £5 an hour to their employees. Grrr :mad:

    Now I get £5.70 and I work in a GPs surgery, but I only work 11.5 hours a week. Beats working more hours for less pay, works out the same at the end of the month! :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    30 quid a day, for my first job (about £4 an hour, i think).

    now I get £6 an hour
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i got £2.90 p/h working as a waitress when i was 16.

    then i worked at boots and got £3.10 and thought it was the best thing ever..... :lol:


    at the moment i'm doing some market research work for £6 an hour..
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I just started my first job this week :hyper:

    I'm contracted to do 17 hours a week, at £3.70 an hour, and time and a half on Sundays. That works out at £72.15 a week.

    And I get a pay rise after 13 weeks, when I'm fully trained :)

    Edited to say: That averages at about £4.24 an hour.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    In my first ever ever ever job i got £3.00 ph :)

    I was 14 though so its excusable!

    Although at the age of 17 i only get £4.19 :( Crap fucking wages!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I got £3.85 in my first job and I thought it was loooooadsa money :rolleyes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm still at my first job. £3.60 p/h, 10 hours a week, though I'm forever doing extra shifts.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my first job, shelf stacker at tesco £3.83 an hour. The hours were really poor and stuff so i quit.
    Im starting my new job today at WHSmiths. £4.58 and hour going up to £4.78 an hour after 3 months. Im just working sundays, but theres no extra sunday pay, ah well.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My first job - which was through a training programme, was £4,500 per year.

    I now earn around £9 per hour on a 35 hour week.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My first job was in a little mini-market type shop where I got £3.20 an hour and worked around 12 hours a week.

    But I've quit that now and I'm lining up a job in Iceland where it's £4.20 an hour so I'm a lot happier because I'm still young and niave about wages :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I got 4.20 in Electronics Boutique when I was about 17. Before that I babysat for about 20 quid a night.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: how much did you get paid for your first job?
    Originally posted by paperBprincess
    i get £15 for 6 hours which works out at £2.50 an hour, sometimes i get tips.

    i know its crap money at my place but i kinda like it there so im not complaining (most of the time)
    Mines worse than that. I get £15 for 9 hours, plus tips, so i usually come home with about £20. Its shit money, but i really like the job and people there :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i got about £30 for all day work in mushroom picking, not magic one's, i thought it was alot of money then, how foolish i was.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I worked for Marks and Sparks for a week and got £300 or so. But it was Xmas, so they paid a bit more.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was paid £2,000 per year, for a full time job (37 hours per week)...


    Mind you, that was in 1986!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Re: how much did you get paid for your first job?
    Originally posted by Young and sexy
    Mines worse than that. I get £15 for 9 hours, plus tips, so i usually come home with about £20. Its shit money, but i really like the job and people there :)

    thats what i'd be getting if i worked on saturdays, it silly, you get the same money for 3 hours less work:rolleyes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: how much did you get paid for your first

    :(


    my first job was when i was about 14

    I worked at the little chef for £1.34ph, poxy huh!

    I got f*%"all money for loads of hours work...............




    :crying:




    .........and i thought i was rolling in it!! :lol: :crying: :crying: :lol:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Re: how much did you get paid for your first
    Originally posted by Charlie'dAngel
    I worked at the little chef for £1.34ph, poxy huh!

    Shit, that's bad! I got £2.70 an hour working in a supermarket when I was 17.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i was a flukey **** for my first job. building and fixing PC's in a shop for £30 an hour when i was 16. only part time but wasn't too bad. :) went down hill after then, me next job in a factory was £3.50 an hour.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by RonHaze
    i was a flukey **** for my first job. building and fixing PC's in a shop for £30 an hour when i was 16. only part time but wasn't too bad. :) went down hill after then, me next job in a factory was £3.50 an hour.

    Fucking show off, we dont need people like you here bragging their asses off!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hehe how much did u get for ur first job? £20 a punter?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by RonHaze
    hehe how much did u get for ur first job? £20 a punter?

    yeah you still owe me some money!!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    you owe me a shag then and i'm skint. ho hum
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go sell your ass again, ah but you will still be skint though :rolleyes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lend us 20 notes then :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by RonHaze
    lend us 20 notes then :p
    :lol: later
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by VinylVicky
    :lol: later

    good shit
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