Low paid jobs!

Xterminator

What was the lowest paid job you ever had, and where?

I worked in a garage in Artane, where they paid me £1 and hour, which was ****ty even then! That was in '89
I admit the work was piss easy, fill up the crisp shelves, and occasionaly pour petrol for the female customers, who couldnt find what side of the car the petrol cap was on etc! (happened more than once).
I tell you though i havent eaten a cream egg since!

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hedgetrimmer

Started working in the Grand Hotel malahide, when I was 13, back in 1989, also on £1 an hour, sorting empty bottles into crates in the basement with 2 other guys, both my elder.

LegacyUser

1.35 in superquinn maybe 10 years ago, pushin trolleys round the carpark during the summer , i spent all my wages on iceburgers,

seamus

I worked for two weeks in a bike shop, for £2 an hour. I loved fixing bikes, but most of the time it was menial tasks like moving stock, fetching everyone's lunch, and generally being the gopher. He even had me paint some of the shop. I worked 9-6, 40 hours a week, and did an extra 3 hours on Friday night at standard pay. I came out with a gigantic £86 for a full week's work and I was delighted (I was 15 )

God, that manager was a stingy git. Two of us did a (full) week's work experience there 2 years later, and he gave us nothing. Zilch. The guys in the workshop used to joke about how he loved child labour, and we thought they were joking

Johnny Versace

My current job! EUR 10 an hour. AARRRGH!

seamus

Originally posted by Johnny Versace
My current job! EUR 10 an hour. AARRRGH!

Yeah, shockingly low there. You are aware that's €20,000 a year? I saw a full time job advertised at between €11,000-€15,000 a year the other day.

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by seamus
Yeah, shockingly low there. You are aware that's €20,000 a year? I saw a full time job advertised at between €11,000-€15,000 a year the other day.

I know... how could you possibly live on 11-15k? Not possible.

Would you believe before the IT downturn I was contracting for 2k a week?

And before the contracting I was on well over 40k...

Now I'm back in a lowly tech support job... it suckie suckie long time...

God damn! :ninja:

BuffyBot

Yeah, Superquinn was the first "real" job I had. Used to come out with about 65 quid a week which was pretty much the same as what the dole paid :eek:

dudara

I worked in a restaurant in 1994 where I got £12 a day for anything between 8-14 hours. Dogs boll**ks, so it was

Sposs

Working in a hotel washing dishes about 9 years ago , it was part time every friday and saturday night until 4 in the morning got paid £2.50 per hour.

Trojan

I got paid 0.65 an hour for working in an adventure centre when I was 16.

Tonnes of gorgeous new French chicks of my age arrived every week though, so being a canoe instructor had it's advantages

woosaysdan

i delivered newspapers for £6 a week, talk about ****e work

rainbow kirby

I got £3 an hour for working in a crappy super valu back in 1999. sucked royally.

raster

Originally posted by BuffyBot
Yeah, Superquinn was the first "real" job I had. Used to come out with about 65 quid a week which was pretty much the same as what the dole paid :eek:

Do you have a URL for dole figures? always wondered

rymus

About 9 years ago, working in a Maxol station pumping petrol for £1.25 an hour. Those were the days

dazberry

In 1989 I got a summer job for a month demonstrating toys in Arnotts for the grand total of £IR50 per week for 40 hours (over 6 days). About e1.58 p/h.

In 1993 I got some work minding a carpark about 10 - 15 hours per week at e1.27 p/h.

Also after college managed to get myself a job writing assembly language device drivers for the grand total of e5 p/h. The average IT wage was almost twice that - at the time. But beer was cheap and my wants simple

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jesus_thats_gre

About 7 or 8 years ago I started work in Crazy Prices (Now Tesco) for 2.29 an hour.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by raster
Do you have a URL for dole figures? always wondered

Current ones or ones over the years? I'm sure current ones will be listed on http://www.welfare.ie/

uberwolf

£15 quid for a 9 hr day, in a garden centre so it was real work. that was an increase as well, I negotiated my wages based on the local super valu, the lads had been doing that work for £12. that was in 97 i think.
£1.67 an hour.

Blitzkrieger

I was on minimum wage last year when I was looking for work in London. I can't remember what the rate was but I was taking home about £140 a week. Rent was £70. We actually used to make it last the week and even had a whole £10 a week left over to go on the piss. Pity all our friends over there were earning loads and going on the piss with them would cost upwards of £50 a night. It wasn't long until the savings had dwindled to barely enough for a flight home.

$11K would be luxury. Look at this posted on fas.ie today : I.T Person Ballyvaughan 10k p/a

That's part time (20 hrs a week) so i suppose it's not too bad. Good luck finding someone though.


I miss my old job. The basic was only €18,000 but between shift and the amount of overtime I was doing I was heading for €50,000

sunbeam

£2.50 per hour working as a student helper in a college library in 1994. Mainly stacking, stocktaking and repairing books-boring but one of the cushier student jobs going at the time.

I remember one subsequent interviewer asking how much I was paid and going on and on about 'how little I was worth' :mad:

emertoff

Carphone Warehouse are advertising on irishjobs.ie for a full-time sales "consultant" on E12,262. An absolute disgrace. I almost felt like replying to the ad to tell them so.

leeroybrown

Just over 10 years ago I had a sumer job for a local buisness man getting £60 a week. I suppose it wasn't too bad at the time.

mrterry

I used to get paid 5 pound a day working for my father doing building work.

Up at 7 and back at 7 every evening it was tough work with little money and still i only learned the value of money this year

eclectichoney

current job 6.50 an hour

Cork

£58 per week
£70 per week
£80 per week
£110 Per Week
£142 per week
£150 per week


This was my salary in a job. The job had miserable hours + had a lot of grief with it.

Guy:Incognito

Originally posted by emertoff
Carphone Warehouse are advertising on irishjobs.ie for a full-time sales "consultant" on E12,262. An absolute disgrace. I almost felt like replying to the ad to tell them so.

Carephone warehouse, as with a lot of sales jobs are based on a low basic + commission, which basically means u can earn as much as ur willing to make the effort for. Im in a similar job where the basic is around €15000, but last year i earned sumwhere in the region of €22-€23 which mean that the potential is there to nearly double the basic (I say that as im not nearly as productive as i could/should be.

Guy:Incognito

Originally posted by eclectichoney
current job 6.50 an hour

is minimun wage not over €7 an hour , if im right then thats illegal

Our man in Havana

Originally posted by Stekelly
is minimun wage not over €7 an hour , if im right then thats illegal

The new minimun wage comes in from 1st Febuary.

seamus

Originally posted by Bond-James Bond
The new minimun wage comes in from 1st Febuary.

There are also other restrictions, including the age of the employee (under 18s are only entitled to 70% of the minimum wage, for example), whether the employee is studying, or an apprentice, and the experience of the employee.

http://www.oasis.gov.ie/employment/pay_and_employment/pay_inc_min_wage.html?search=Minimum+Wage
for more info

BabyEater

I was getting £1.25 an hour working in a steel fabrication workshop that was in 1998. I am still there today but my wages have improved a bit to €10.30 an hour

Doodee

Heh, im working 7 jours a day five days a week and am on sub €14,000 a year.

My rent is €450 a month and i also have loan repayments. i still seem to be managing though

forgot to mention that im also in full time education, 5 days a week

Unpossible

my lowest was when i was 17 working as a lifeguard in tralee Aquadome, I was getting £3.50 an hour, i stayed for two years and went up to £4.50. My next lowest was Supermacs last summer where they "paid" us €6.53 an hour but took €0.30 off us for food, but only allowed us €6 worth of food. So the B**tards ended up paying €6.05 per hour

Agent Smith

Originally posted by emertoff
Carphone Warehouse are advertising on irishjobs.ie for a full-time sales "consultant" on E12,262. An absolute disgrace. I almost felt like replying to the ad to tell them so.

i just did

gaui3d0pnbz86o

my lowest paid job was 5 irish an hour, when i was 15-7yrs ago-i had a fantastic job of ......... a forklift operator in a builers providers! i so know it was illigal, no lisence or formal training or anything! still remember first day, went in and asked about jobs, they said can you start now, yes i said, heres they keys for that forklift, practice over there for an hour, then ill meet you out front!

brill stuff!