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17-12-10, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
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i was a yts engineer on ?30 a week in 1999 then went to work for my uncle as a labourer while looking for a proper job then went to s.w. Durham training to learn to be a proper engineer then on to work in an ice cream factory got bored and joined the RAF as an Armourer in 2002 and have never looked back its awsome.
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17-12-10, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: perth, SCOTLAND
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Well first job was at the local football ground selling pies for 17.50 a game
Then I got promoted to being in charge of the folk selling the then a extra fiver a game for that
Got my motor apprentership in 2009 and then got a job at aviva in 2010 and its all good
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17-12-10, 01:23 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Preston
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Saturday job ata gearbox reconditioners, steam cleaning 'em at the age of 12. then started a valeting business when i was 13 from home, cards in newsagents windows, got quite a bit of business as i recall. Hmmmm might be worth looking at again - getting sick of teaching little chavs!
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TF135 cams, 52mm throttle body, PECO SS catback, K&N Apollo, PAYEN headgasket, Tinted rear lenses, HID 6000k headlights, 100w mains, citroen washers, grooved discs with Mintex redbox pads, Sony Xplod + USB + 10 disc changer, sub + amp, one off alloy bonnet badge, rear headrests and the beat goes on...
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17-12-10, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The Shire
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first job i got was working for my dad for the company he was in charge of.
Periodically they would get me in to rebuild the PC's from the hardware to OS rebuilds, or test some of the software from a 'unknown monkey hits random buttons approach' he told me years later it was exactly what the American's they had to rain would do, so they had to test that scenario :S
Can't remember what i was paid, but i think it was about ?20 a day; not bad i thought seeing as i was only 13 at the time 
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17-12-10, 02:22 PM
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Senior Pant Sniffer
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: staffordshire
Posts: 4,771
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Kitchen Porter for a shitty resteraunt at 16 earning ?100 a week whilst at college
hated every day of the job was so happy when i left
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17-12-10, 02:27 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Waterlooville, Hants
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First job was a 4 year mechanical engineering apprenticeship for Marconi Space & Defence Systems, pay was around ?35 per week back in '81.
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17-12-10, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Sheffield/Rotherham
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?80 a week in 2006 i was 16 apprentice mechanic
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17-12-10, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Scottish borders
Posts: 11,538
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1st job - ?27 a week as a shop assistant on YTS in 1987.
2nd job - Started at ?263 per month in 1988 - Still doing it - albeit for a bit more money !
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17-12-10, 04:03 PM
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technically an expertish
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Clydebank, Glasgow
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was working for myself when i was 14 doing gardening, did everything and was making really good money from it, bought all my own equipment ect, but when i started my apprenticeship back in 2006 i had to give it up due to lack of time, still working as a mechanic now
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17-12-10, 04:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Rainham
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apprenticeship at a papermill on roughly ?220 a week, still there now but fully qualified
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