I have to go out now, one of my grandsons has got me in trouble with the school and I don't even attend it.
Who remembers their first wage packet ?
My first legal one was £2-2shillings and 6pence. That is about £2 and 13 pence today.
After giving my old maw 5 shillings about 25 pence. I could get drunk friday/ Satuarday
Buy 10 * every day.
But a newspaper evert day and the Green Times on Satuardy night,
Go to every Celtic game home and away, sometimes 2 games in a week.
Pint of heavy 11 old pennies= about 5 new pence.
10 * 7 old pennies. = about 3 new pence.
Newspapers a thruppeny bit.= about 11/2 np.
Annual salary £102.after tax. for me to go to a game now it would cost five times this.
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£230 for a weeks work, i was 16, my first job, not bad eh?
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Mine was around £560 for a months work when I turned 16.
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My first wage packet was about £90 as an apprentice. That was about 1998 and i thought i was bill gates. I spent most of it on my mum and my girlfriend. I left myself with £20 for buckie friday and saturday night and my dinner money and paper for the week ahead. Good times.
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YTS Lion Foundry Kirkintilloch 25 quid thatchers goverment and I got paid aff when she shut the steel down in scotland :38:
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£75 a week Delivering juice as a summer job when I was 16
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YTS £25 a week working at Celtic Park as groundstaff. Loved the job.
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Mines was £175 a week when I was 16. 8am-4pm as a labourer. Was good aswell after a few months I got put up to £200 a week, got well built up doing it, swinging the 14 pun hammer knocking walls down, using the Kangol, carting wheel barrows of bricks and rubble about, mixing mortar then wheeling it about. After a few months my arms were like thighs!!
When I first started I could only carry 4 block in the barrow but ended up could do 8 but usuallly only done 6 as you dont want to * your back especiallly if your going up or down hills.Last edited by a moderator: Mar 12, 2009 -
No, but got into every game free, plus one complimentary ticket every week, as well as rubbing shoulders with the players daily. :icon_mrgreen:
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1981 mate. Charlie Nicholas, Johnny Doyle (I was there when he died) Davie Provan, TB, etc etc. Some squad back then. I was there when Paul McStay got his debut. He used to have a kick about with us on our tea break.
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I was in the paddock end at aberdeen when mcstay scored 2 remember strachan taking a penalty at our end scoring and some loon jumped on top of him as he done a wee roll in front of us :icon_mrgreen: first 2 players to pull the guy off were rougvie and provan we won 3 v 1 :50: -
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70 pound plus 30 tips, worked in a lounge/nightclub
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SNAP!
Back in 1999, 16 yo i got £2.19 for the 1st month at the co-op, then it went up to £2.28.
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I worked as a milk bhoy for the coop 2 pound a week wage 6 days a week double milk on a saturday 1980 - 1983 made all yer dough on tips used to walk away with 16 quid in tips only downer was the 0.3.20 start hence my lack of education. -
Forgot to say the year was 1957 and now it's come fulle circle the pension I get now to live on is not much better.
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£25-50p a Y.T.S "Youth training scheme" basically a job for a year to keep you off the streets
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working in a super market after school.
£2.12 per hour,and my ma still took a tenner a week off me lol :31:
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