Straight from school

jackslad

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These days kids leaving school dont have very good job prospects, some stay in education into their mid 20s, some even leave pregnant,I left at 15 in 1972 and went straight to work on the cumbrian farm where i had been working part time, £11 take home pay...How about you..
 
I left school at easter 1965 signed on with the coal board, and there was an explosion on one of the coal faces at the colliery where I was going to work. 15 years old £5 per week underground.

Working in a coal mine going down, down.


John.
 
Eight pounds a week as an apprentice (slave) for Plymouth Corporation.....and had to give a fiver of that to me mum for board and lodgings. Out of the three quid I had left you could have a skinful on Friday AND Saturday night, go to the pictures, ten fags,fish n chips and still have enough to get a taxi home.....eeee....them were the days!
Best thing I ever did though...having a skill enables me to taste the freedom that I have today!
 
I left school in 1972 at 15 started work as an apprentice joiner got £6 wage for 48 hour week.
The new houses I was working on were 4 bed detached with large gardens and cost £7000.
 
Left school at 18, stamped fishing licences for a year to fund 5 years at Uni, worked in East Sussex, then moved to the Wye Valley for a promotion before being made redundant....
 
runnach said:
I'm now back at college passing my skills onto our next generation, there are still a good few lads and lassies out there and, it very difficult for them out there!!
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I do feel very sorry for the young people today, Employment market, and housing ladder as examples are but two challenges they face.

I am of the opinion each young generation are the future prosperity of our little island.

I wholeheartedly agree, I think it is tough for the young,and they face challenges and technology that we didnt have to cope with.

At least in Scotland further education seems available to those from a less modest background.....As regards England I think we have shot ourselves seriously in the foot in respect of tuition fees.


Channa
 
April 1959 apprentice electrician £1.17/6 for a 44 hour week. However due to family circumstances it did not last long.

Dezi :pc:
 
I am glad I'm not a youngster now, I was lucky enough to have a grant to go to college,walked straight into a job and when I felt like it changed with no bother, got tax relief when we got married and bought a new house for £7500. The kids of today are virtually forced to go into debt to do a degree with not much of a chance of using the skills they have learned, and the chance of getting on the housing ladder for average young couple is negligible. Their endeth my moan of the day.
 
i managed to stay at school till i was just 17 and got chucked out got a plumbing apprentiship and more or less done that ever since first wage was £13.33p
problem with every where now is there isnt any work building trades have been simplified so that they can be carried out by the cheapest of labourers when ever possible anything skilled is carried out in a factory for cheap wages (if in this country it will be somewhere with cheap labour)and brought to site ready made
with computer tracking of every single part in the supply chain "wastage " is now a thing of the past and there are no bunts to jobs now years ago if you worked in a resturant it was a given you got a dinner now staff are not allowed to eat at their place of work
weve become a three teir society the rich ,the worker and the never worked unfortunately its the workers now who are facing a shrinking work place and very little reward for there labours
weve also seen the loss of career paths very few going up the ladder now we dont need line managers and foremen when theres a computer counting your work rate or a camera watching
we were promised that technology would give us all lots of leisure time no one told us only the chosen few would have the money to enjoy it
 
I went to Uni at 18 in London for 3 years (Imperial College). Did a Civil Engineering degree, then went to work for John Laing Construction (now Laing O'Rourke) doing setting out of buildings, interpretation of drawings, site surveys, quality control, and site management. Then after 4 years of that I went into the design of buildings and civil works (calculations/computer modeling etc). Seeing how things are built in the real world is the only way to go if you want your designs to be useful... well that's what worked for me anyway! The degree was very theoretical

My starting salary with John Laing in 1985 was £5200 a year + lodging allowance for working on a site distant from home.
 
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