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24 minutes ago, WalkedUp said:

I worked stacking shelves when I was a whipper snapper in 2001/2002. Think pay was £2.36/hr as I was under 18 and the minimum wage didn’t apply if I recall correctly. 

Nay, that's nowt, lad. When I were six I spent all day pickin taters fer all of sixpence.

It were tough in our day

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2 hours ago, amateur said:

Nay, that's nowt, lad. When I were six I spent all day pickin taters fer all of sixpence.

It were tough in our day

You can say that again. The rate for five days picking back then was 10/-  For you youngsters that's 50p

I was the lucky one because I drove the tractor:lol:

I would have thought maybe £100 a day would be cheap in Londonistan.  I am lucky and have a regular helper and he is happy with £60 and well worth every penny.

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On 17/06/2021 at 22:53, Dave-G said:

My first weeks wage was three pounds,3 shillings and sixpence. Dad opened the wage packet and took the three pounds. That's how it was in the good ole days.

£3 17 shillings and sixpence in 1965 take home pay as apprentice, cant get half a pint with that now.

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1 hour ago, bavarianbrit said:

£3 17 shillings and sixpence in 1965 take home pay as apprentice, cant get half a pint with that now.

Mine was a govt scheme at 16yrs old called a Y.T.S (youth training scheme) for the sum of £23.50p a week. In 1980 for 6 month . The garage I was at had the option to then extend it for another 6 month . They did that then gave me a full time job . I was there for the next 7 yrs until the garage owner retired & closed the buisness .  

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7 hours ago, hodge911 said:

Mine was a govt scheme at 16yrs old called a Y.T.S (youth training scheme) for the sum of £23.50p a week. In 1980 for 6 month . The garage I was at had the option to then extend it for another 6 month . They did that then gave me a full time job . I was there for the next 7 yrs until the garage owner retired & closed the buisness .  

A director of a large engineering practice I know started off as a YTS in the 1980s. Seems a very successful scheme. 

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15 hours ago, WalkedUp said:

A director of a large engineering practice I know started off as a YTS in the 1980s. Seems a very successful scheme. 

It was I.m.o a 50/50 depending on the morals of the employer ... a lot of them used it as a way to get cheap labour for menial work as they only had to contribute a small amount of the money paid ... there was a large company that performed various forms of plating chrome ,zinc ect near me that was renowned for only using Y.T.S staff for the 6 month then replacing them with the next batch so on & so forth until the scheme ended . I knew quite a few that went there and no one EVER got an extension or "kept on" .

But then again there are always people out to use & abuse the system I suppose

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