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Do you remember your very first job in the workfor
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Theresa | Report | 29 Dec 2004 05:38 |
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 |
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TonyOz | Report | 29 Dec 2004 05:25 |
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 |
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Theresa | Report | 29 Dec 2004 05:07 |
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 |
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Bec | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:37 |
I was 16 and I got a job as a silver service waiteress. I was paid £4.50 an hour (1998) becx |
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TonyOz | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:31 |
G'day Theresa. Myer Eastland. You must be a Victorian? :>) $14.90..do you remember the year? Tony Oz |
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Theresa | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:23 |
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 |
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TonyOz | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:19 |
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 |
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Pat | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:14 |
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 |
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Unknown | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:08 |
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. |
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Caroline | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:06 |
My first job was in a Solicitors Office as a Office Junior and I got £6 per week that was in 1971 |
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Gypsy | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:05 |
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 |
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Mags | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:04 |
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 |
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Nicola | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:03 |
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 |
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PennyDainty | Report | 29 Dec 2004 00:02 |
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 |
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TonyOz | Report | 28 Dec 2004 23:59 |
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 |
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