General Chat

How many remember there very first job after leaving school. How old were you, and how much was your first pay packet. I was 13 years old (1959). I was a copper coil winder, for the backs of radio's. My first weekly pay packet was 10 shillings. 5 shillings for my board at home, and the rest was mine. I thought i was rich!! Tony Oz

My first job was in British Home Stores, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow I was 17 and my first wage was 59 pounds per week in 1977

Yes, i left school and started working in Tesco 4 days later. My first weeks wages was £45 and i bought myself a leather jacket.lol Nicky

I started work in 1966 as a junior records clerk in the Personnel Department of a subsidiary of General Motors and I earned £4.18.6d a week - £2 of which went to my mum for board- the rest had to cover bus fares, lunches and everything else - rich I was not! lol Magsxx

My first job after training as nursery nurse was in a Day Nursery. I was 18 years old old. It was 1994, my pay was £150 per wk. Pat

My first job was in a Solicitors Office as a Office Junior and I got £6 per week that was in 1971

after school,i did medicine for five years,and ran away,before i finished the six year course. i then joined the army medical corps..so that was my first job! bryan.

Kb That's what I thought, I must have been in the wrong job. Well I was in an office hated it, started at £10.00 a week. But like Mags I got half of what was left after the taxman the stamp (as it was once called) and my Mum took their bit. That left me about £3.50 for buses, lunch and anything else. I was always broke. no change there then. LOL. Pat x

With my 5 shillings i could go to the Pictures ( 3d ) Buy a packet of fags ( 1s 6d ) Craven A. 10 pack. Shout myself a whole watermelon (6d.) Buy 1s worth of lollies ( a bag load ) and still have some left to bank. Todays equivelent in Oz is appox 50cents. For 50 cents to-day you couldn't buy a packet of shoelaces. Tony Oz

My first job was as at a record bar in Myer Eastland when it first opened, i bought home $14.90 and gave mum $10.00. Theresa

G'day Theresa. Myer Eastland. You must be a Victorian? :>) $14.90..do you remember the year? Tony Oz

I was 16 and I got a job as a silver service waiteress. I was paid £4.50 an hour (1998) becx

Hi Anthony, Yes im a Victorian, Montrose actually,the year i started at Myer was 1967 i think, i was only 15, do you rememember Hannams i worked there as well then went onto Brashs always in the Record dept, loved my music. Regards Theresa

Theresa. Yes, i remember Hannams. So your at Montrose. I'm in Nunawading now. Lived at the Basin and Bayswater 1970s, Wantirna 1980s,Mooroolbark,1990s. My Grandad in the late 40s worked for Allen's music store, as a piano tuner. My dad and his brother were musician's, and played at Ted Rippons Hotel in Auburn, in the 50s. I also have a great love for music, and play Classical Guitar. One of my daughters is a Piano teacher. ( seems to be in the blood. ) Cheers. Tony

Tony you seem to have moved around as much as we have , we went from Mooroolbark to Glasshouse Mountains QLD, then Croydon, Chirnside park, Mt Evelyn very briefly, then Mooroolbark again but i think we will stay here in Montrose for quite a while yet, at least i hope so, tired of moving. Allans music as you probably know was taken over by Brash's. then Brash's went bust, but i noticed an add the other day for Allans music, seemed very strange. Theresa

Hi Tony, I used to work every term holiday and have literally worked at all the Department stores that Melbourne once had..Mutual Store, Ball and Welch, Coles, Woolworths, Myers, Foy and Gibsons etc, etc...nearly forgot the doughnut shop in Swanson St..I think they were all slave labour camps, as I don't remember ever feeling rich, until I started full employment as an usherette at the Regent Theatre in Collins St. We used to work shifts, which was great, because I could still go dancing on my nights off, can't remember how much the pay was though. Kaye

Hi Kaye. I remember most of those places. I was born in Richmond -Collingwood area of Melbourne late 40s ( mum was a Tiger fan, and dad was a Magpie Supporter ) Go the Pies!! Used to go Ballroom dancing at Legget's in Prahran, also Collingwood town Hall, and Moorabbin Town Hall. ( Actually married my dancing Instructor. ) lol Those were good days. Cheers. Tony.

My first job was in the Post Office at Frinton-on-Sea in 1945, a few days after the war ended. I was 17 and my wages were 38 shillings. I've just realised I haven't got the pound sign on the computer, probably because I am in Australia. Sylvia in Perth Western Australia

My Dad and Brother were fanatical Tiger supporters..brother still is...I've seen quite a few games too! I used to go dancing at Glen Iris, Coburg and Brunswick town hall, that was a big problem getting home to Bentleigh, everything stopped at midnight. Sundays I used to go to Mornington to rock and roll..on my boyfriends motorbike, pillion..my dad would have killed me if he had ever found out lol. Kaye

Hi Tony My first job was office junior in 1966 for a Chartered Accountants Sherwood Cohen Fine and Partners I remember the boss, Mr Sherwood when he went on holiday he sent me a postcard saying 'he had'nt felt so cut off, since l f***** up the switchboard' l thought it was brilliant, my mum and dad were'nt too impressed tho'. I was paid £5.00 per week, then straight to Bobby cousins or Richards shops to buy skinny rib jumper and short skirt for under 17s 6d each lol