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  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 15y 2m 15d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Burwood, NSW
Posted

900/week is pretty standard/average wage for a fully qualified sparky. Few more qualifications (Level 2 etc.) and you could land a job that pays a fair bit more than that. Hell, Integral 3rd year apprentices get 25/hour, nearly the base tradesman rate at my employment.

Makes me wish I went through that massive process to apply for an apprenticeship there. Doh.

900 p/w?

and here I am just a lowly forklift driver on 80k+ a year.

something is not right in all of this.

you guys would be better off not getting a trade and just go be sh*t kickers in a warehouse!

or you could always go work with daz for 180k a year! :ph34r:

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  • 777
  • Member
  • Member For: 17y 5m 29d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Neutral Bay. Born and Bred in the RSA
Posted

Morning fellas!

The loooong weekend is almost upon us!

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  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 15y 7m 3d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805
Posted

Im paying 2 contractors $45p/h today on site and charging them out at $70 each.

Im making $50ph to stay in bed.

Brought home $165 per week as a first year. I miss $21 slabs.

  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 18y 4m 22d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Brisbane
Posted

Morning all.

Never did a trade but first job at woolies was $6.something p/h, 10 hours a week haha.

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  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 15y 7m 3d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805
Posted

$5.75ph. As first year. Back when bus tickets were 45c for 3hr. That was good cause I used to catch 2 buses and a train to get to work by 6am. Also had 1km walk in between.

Funny now seein housemates daughter complain cause she has a 30 min train ride to her $24ph child care job. By funny I mean I want to punch her in the face.

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  • I <3 Floods
  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 14y 11m 29d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: South West QLD
Posted

It's funny isn't it... And these days apprentices get their wages subsidized by the government to 3rd year equivalent anyways.. I started at 118 in my pocket a week.. Would work Sundays for extra cash.. But somehow always managed to afford my two bottle of Jim beam a week.. Admittedly I did drive a sh*tbox satria..

  • Sucker
  • Moderating Team
  • Member For: 22y 3m 5d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Brisbane
Posted

Back in my day... :blaah:

You know you're getting old when you start reminiscing.

  • 777
  • Member
  • Member For: 17y 5m 29d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Neutral Bay. Born and Bred in the RSA
Posted

Big bosses are in the office today. Great!

  • Turboless
  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 15y 5m 3d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Geelong, Victoria
Posted
By funny I mean I want to punch her in the face.

Lol. Tbh I don't find melb transport that bad. The times I've been up there to use it. Trams, trains. All fine. Tell her to pull her head in

  • Thooperrrrrrr
  • Legacy Donating Member
  • Member For: 15y 28d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: NOR, Western Australia
Posted

I started at Maccas when I was 15 on $5.49/ph. Was loving it when it increased after 6 months to $6.06

Worked my way up to crew trainer and was getting $13.90/ph, then went further up to assistant manager and was on salary which was paying about $14.10/ph. Neeedless to say after 3 months of that I went back to crew.. not worth the extra pressure and unpaid hours for another 20c... SInce then it's changed though, they get min of $24 an hour as shift assistant/assistant manager I believe.

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