The worse money you have worked for?

[panicoll]

What is the worse rate you have worked for ph?

Mines is £12ph starting monday, Testing and inspecting and providing my own transport working for the council through a agency.

Gutt'd

 

[marcshaw]

Thats not good mate, But I have recently been working on price, 2 and a half hours a day travel, 9 hours on site and just making £100 a day! Prices were so so tight!!! And now I am fighting for my crap money!!

 

[Jonesy83]

well ive just finished my apprentiship instead of my money going up its gone trades gown down hill but nevermind lads keep working hard people on welfare depend on us

 

[panicoll]

Thats not good mate, But I have recently been working on price, 2 and a half hours a day travel, 9 hours on site and just making £100 a day! Prices were so so tight!!! And now I am fighting for my crap money!!

unreal!

what crap money?

 

[marcshaw]

The crap money is £100 a day, and now I am having to fight for it, as contractor is saying work is sub standard, when we have been on site for 10 weeks with no problems, and surprise surprise, its payment time!

 

[panicoll]

Well they know If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!

So next week there will be no G-wobing! for me

dont think the council will be expecting much anyway.

 

[marcshaw]

The fact is, that the installs I done were 100%, couple of untidy cables clipped to a ceiling slab of a 3mtr run, hardly enough to hold 10 weeks money for

 

[KWCFC]

1st year apprentice. £4.24 an hour. I think its gone up though since the JIB rates went up.

Doesnt bother me. No mortgage or bills to pay. Just the beer at weekends!

 

[SirKit Breaker]

1st year apprentice. £4.24 an hour. I think its gone up though since the JIB rates went up.

Doesnt bother me. No mortgage or bills to pay. Just the beer at weekends!

I take my hat off to you mate. Not many people got the get up and go to work for that sort of money. Most people would just scrounge off the state. I guess you are young and still at home with parents etc.Make the best of it while you can.

 

[Adam W]

Would that be the worst rate in the electrical trade, or overall?
I worked for £7.50 ph (before tax) as a mate until a couple of years ago.

Before that, when I was 19 (late 90s) I worked as a bar manager taking home just over £200 a week for 70 hours; that's around £3.45 per hour before tax, while the bar staff were on £4.50 p/h. I made up the money by DJing at weekends, but then they wanted me to play for FREE so I left.

 

[DurhamSparky]

beat this!!!

£20k a year on top
or
£1667 month
or
£416 a week
or
£83 a day working 12 hours+

Thats £6.91 per hour before TAX!!!!!!!!!!!! (£5.38 after)

it was salary based and NO OVERTIME / NO CALL OUT FEE !!!! like it or lump it...!! i lasted 3 days and told him were to stick it!! go old MR YEEE HAAAA!!!

that nearly as low as an apprentice or even less in some case...!!!

 

[blackiel]

Worked as a toilet attendant once.........Pony a day...in the hand!!!! Crap Job!!!!

 

[martysparky]

money by DJing at weekends, but then they wanted me to play for FREE so I left.

the wors money I worked for was DJing on a radio station and after club party. My sl1210s were stolen and the station went bust.

 

[Adam W]

My sl1210s were stolen and the station went bust.

... So £700 or so out of pocket then.

I felt DJing was going downhill a few years ago, which was why I gave it up - I started in 1996 during the Britpop era when guitars were all the rage and everyone wanted to be in a band. Back then DJs were paid around £100 a night for a 4 hour set, but then everyone wanted to be a DJ - 'bedroom DJs' were desperate to get on the scene and offered to play for free, which sucked all the money out of it; apart from the price, bar and club owners couldn't seem to distinguish between a professional DJ charging £20 per hour and an amateur willing to call himself a DJ, but for free.

Then came the smoking ban (so you couldn't smoke while DJing) and 24 hour drinking, so DJs were expected to play for 8-10 hours (continuously) on the same money and be grateful for it.

I can see the electrical trade going the same way - there are plenty of 6 week wannabes willing to work as mates for free for the experience; after they have driven down the average price and realised there's no money in the trade they'll just go back to IT.

 

[blackiel]

Need a proper governing body,Novus,one that wont get corrupted,.......There goes that idea!!!