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Your first ever pay packet

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  • 30-04-2009 4:23pm
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    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭


    Can you remember how much it was, what year & for doing what job?

    Mine was £10 in 1994 for working an eight hour shift in a pub as a lounge boy. I guess it worked out at £1.25 per hour but there was some good tips in the job too.


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    javaboy
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    £41.60 for a 5 hour and an 8 hour shift at £3.20 an hour working in a bowling alley. I think it was around 1999. Good times.


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    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Apart from paper rounds etc my first pay packet was £93 for 3 days work in a packaging company. Case rate was great but christ you worked hard for your money. I was 16 so it would have been 1993.


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    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,866 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    £100 for 2 months working with my dad on the buildings. I was 11 so that was 1991.

    I played in the sand for most of it and my level of hard work done was directly related to how dirty my clothes were for my mother when I got home


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    az2wp0sye65487
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    6th wrote: »
    Apart from paper rounds etc my first pay packet was £93 for 3 days work in a packaging company. Case rate was great but christ you worked hard for your money. I was 16 so it would have been 1993.

    £20 cash in hand 8.30am - 5pm when I was 15. Changing car tyres & repairing punctures.


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    £19

    For picking strawberries

    I bought a subscription to that Dinosaur magazine with it. That was the shiz


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    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Rudy Spicy Rider wrote: »
    £20 cash in hand 8.30am - 5pm when I was 15. Changing car tyres & repairing punctures.

    Revenue Commissioners notified :D


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    funk-you
    Registered Users Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Tenner plus about 15 tips in 1997 as a loungeboy in the local pub. Getting groped by soggy auldones all night.

    Good times.

    -Funk


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    javaboy
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    I bought a subscription to that Dinosaur magazine with it. That was the shiz

    I had loads of them. My mam threw them out. :(


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    Mr Benevolent
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    £200 back in '99 when I was 19 working in the bakery in Superquinn Sutton. Naturally it was gone 3 days later on hookers and coke (or biscuits and porn mags).


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    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    RATM wrote: »
    Rudy Spicy Rider wrote: »
    £20 cash in hand 8.30am - 5pm when I was 15. Changing car tyres & repairing punctures.
    Revenue Commissioners notified :D

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    Quazzie wrote: »
    £100 for 2 months working with my dad on the buildings. I was 11 so that was 1991.


    Revenue Commissioners notified :mad:


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    banshee_bones
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    cant remember what it was but it was about £3.50 an hour, think that was back in 99-ish? and i was under 16


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    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    £50 for picking berries. I spent it all on sega games!


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    neuro-praxis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭neuro-praxis


    My first ever paypacket was £100 for two weeks' work with my dad. It was 1994 and I was 11. He was an electrician rewiring a house and I crawled into all the tight spaces between walls. :D


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    kittenkiller
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    £10 for working 5 hours in a pub in 1997.
    I made 55p in tips.
    Stayed working there for about two years after that.


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    Mr.Lizard
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    £145 in for a weeks work in 1997 (I'm pretty sure I still even have the payslip). Seemed like the world was my oyster after that with so much cash in the skyrocket.


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    thegen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭thegen


    £26.00 pound in 1986 for a forty hour week as a 1st year apprentice fitter.


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    civis_liberalis
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    The pile of drink that would have bought you in the 80's ;).

    Can't even wet the tongue with that now barely.


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    thegen
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    civis_liberalis wrote: »
    The pile of drink that would have bought you in the 80's ;).

    Can't even wet the tongue with that now barely.

    Jaysus, I handed up a tenner to my mother, ran a motorbike and went on the piss for the weekend;)


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I was on £1.55 per hour packing shelves in Dunnes Stores back in 1998. A year later I discovered boards.ie (or the cloud boards as it was back then :pac:)!


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    #21
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I got just under £100 working part time for a week in my local chipper....sweet! I was only 15, think it was 2001. We were still in £s then right?? :confused:


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    GAAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    £20 back in 97 workin part time in a fruit and veg shop

    NEVER work for a kerryman shop owner backstard put TWO 50KGS bags of coal on my back to carry into the shop at a time :mad:


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    #23
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Mid to late 90's, think it was £15 a night for putting a box over the mechanical hare after a race in a greyhound stadium.

    I got quite good at dodging the dogs hurtling towards me and all.


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    #24
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Last year I got about €200 for being an "exam attendant" at the leaving cert.

    The Backstard that I was working for stiffed me out of like 40 quid.


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    Xiney
    Registered Users Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    $20 CAD for 4 hours babysitting back in '97, I was 11 years old.

    I saved up for a while and bought myself a sweet panasonic stereo. Which I sold back in 07 before moving to Ireland. It was massive though, so I guess I would have eventually replaced it. Good sound - my dad helped me pick it out. Still worked perfectly at 10 years old, too.


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    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    €200 when I was 16


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    #27
    Jet Black
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    £20 a sandwich a drink a bar and an apple. in the summer of 96 and 97 for working sunday in croke park from 10-5 was suppose to be cleaning toilet's but never did just watched the match. Was good


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    #28
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    *nods hello to The Gen*

    Makes me feel ancient in here...

    Mine was apprentice hairdresser 1986

    £26.85 for about a 45 hour week...........

    and that would cover, busfare, lunches, smokes and drink for the WEEK!!!

    Aaah!! Sigh!! The previous recession was more fun... :eek:


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    #29
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    £100 for a weeks admin work in a travel agent (posting out tickets, pulling files, chasing tickets...) back in 2001...


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    #30
    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    367 pounds for a months work in 1981. My annual salary was 4224 starting off in the bank.


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    #31
    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    My first Pay was £12 for working 6 days on a paper route. 3 hours a Day Monday to Friday and on Saturday working from 0800 - 1600. Only a small number of tips too!!! I now realise I was ripped off. We went around in a van and jumped out while moving to get the papers in.

    Years later it turned out the fat guy who we worked for was a Paedophile. Or at least a child molester. And it just go me thinking. What about me? Why wasn't I good enough? :D True story BTW.


    My first real pay packet was €570 courtesy of the Irish Tax Payer after my first camp with the Reserves.:D


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