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Old 13-05-09, 08:48 PM   #21
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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
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Old 13-05-09, 08:51 PM   #22
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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.
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Old 13-05-09, 08:53 PM   #23
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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
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Old 13-05-09, 08:56 PM   #24
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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..
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Old 13-05-09, 09:00 PM   #25
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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
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Old 13-05-09, 09:02 PM   #26
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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...
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Old 13-05-09, 09:05 PM   #27
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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.
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Old 13-05-09, 09:06 PM   #28
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£90/day is always better than £0/day
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Old 13-05-09, 09:07 PM   #29
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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.
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Old 13-05-09, 09:09 PM   #30
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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.
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