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Bartender, £3.01 an hour for a 65 hour week (but it included live-in accommodation. Well, a single bed in a cupboard on the fifth floor)
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Not what I've earnt but bad paying jobs I have once done are,
1. Pot washer at hotel : £2.25 an month
2. Farm hand moving pooh : £2.00 an month
3. Shelf stacker at Co-op: £2:75 an month
4. Waiter : £3 an month
5. Factory worker, packing light bulbs : £90 a year
6. Paper round : £7 a quarter !
AtW
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Ive done a bit of retailing, cleaning buses, office cleaner, storeman etc.
Anything to get by. Sign on!!! Never NEVER!!!
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Not what I've earnt but bad paying jobs I have once done are,
1. Pot washer at hotel : £2.25 an hour
2. Farm hand moving pooh : £2.00 an hour
3. Shelf stacker at Co-op: £2:75 an hour
4. Waiter : £3 an hour
5. Factory worker, packing light bulbs : £90 a week
6. Paper round : £7 a week !
First proper job £10.5k in 1998.
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I've averaged 63K a year over 17 years contracting. I've probably had the equivalent of 3 full years off work during that time, almost all of it in the last five years.
My worst year as a contractor was 1991, when I earned 24K, and my best was 2001, when I earned 108K.
Add in estimates of pre-contracting salary during nearly three years of permiedom takes my life-time earnings to just over 1100K over 20 years, bring my career average down to 56K.
(Edited to take out unnecessary VAT adjustments - it turns out all my records exclude VAT by default.)Last edited by IR35 Avoider; 18 October 2006, 09:37.
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Fair enough AtW, I will give you that one, thought you would have a better understanding of real poverty than any of the pampered souls on here.
So it looks like people don't know (how can you not keep track ?) or it is less than you expect (easier to think about current/best paid job, forget crap ones + gaps) or don't want to say, which is fair enough !
Point is, it's possible but not easy to sustain big bucks for ya common or garden contractor over a 40yr career, that's why I think a credible plan B needs to be a priority when the money is rolling in.
Your reasonably bright permie in another business area (i.e. not IT) can expect a gradual but consistent climb up wage/benefit scales and over a career come out just as well overall. This isn't always the case of course but looks to be for many of the people I know.
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Gentlemen,
this thread is in bad taste, I suggest to edit the posts to contain different content.
Fools.
Milan.
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You forgot to adjust for inflation. I started on 15k 11 years ago, which is probably ~24k in today's money. Which means, adjusting for inflation, I'll pass the cool mill mark sometime next year. Yet my net worth is nowhere near that amount.
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How much have I earnt? About a tenner. How much have I been paid, rather more.
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In the 12 years I have worked. I would assume its close to 750k/800k, including a few years on crap money.
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I can't be arsed to work it all out. But, my first proper job (permie) paid £7,500 a year. Three years ago I made that with an extra 0 on the end.
The last 2 years have not been as profitable but they have been invested in my get out of working plan.
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Don't know. Spent it all on wine and women (not much into songs). The rest I wasted.
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Originally posted by AtWDon't be a pig luke - a lot of people in this country barely earn enough to go on holidays once a year, no need to flash your big money earnings.
Don't know if this was a joke or serious post, but it made me laugh!
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