how much would you want for a days work

Originally Posted by gid

8 -4 with an hour for lunch.
Although I normally only take 30 mins

I work 7-3's and 3-11's
the 7-3's im up at 5.15 to walk to work as i have no bus to get there :/
on my lates by the time im home i get 4 hours sleep and im up again....sucks!
and i have no lunchbreak..i eat food and carry on with my work

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by saoralba

Never been on more than £5 per hour.
But its different for you, presuming you have house + debt + kids + wife ect.

Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.

Originally Posted by gid

I have been self employed for the last 22 years and usually get paid a good fee per day.
Because I work in construction the trade is dead at the mo.
I have been offered £90 a day plus fuel for the next 6 months(I can still do my own work if it comes in)
Ok its not a fortune to some people ,but how much would you take to keep busy?

£450 a week.

i would jump at it

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.

I agree with you there, i do the exactly the same amount of work, sometimes more as the other people who do reception work too - yet there on more than me...it isnt fair..

because I have been self employed for over 20 yrs ,I know that time is ££££££££
and you just have to get on with it.
looks like Ive dropped in lucky at the mo then

[fizzwheel]

If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.

My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.

My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...

only when you havn't got any.

£90/day is always better than £0/day

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.

My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...

Pfft... When I did a brief stint of contracting I was on £250/day... It might not be the be all and end all but it sure makes more stuff possible.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.

Between 16-18 is around £4.35 p/h.
18-21 is 4.75 p/h.

Thats what I got when working at McDonalds.
And some of the shifts were terrible.
Minimum of a 8 hour shift.

0515 after a 15mile commute, which meant getting up around 4-430AM, and the wage doesn't change.
The shift was 0530 to 1500.
9 and a half hour shift, with £4.35 per hour, and a maximum of 45 minute break the whole day, and the break can't be split up.