Third Time Lucky!

[Arthur Little]

:Hellooo: ... Myrna had a letter this forenoon from Perth & Kinross Council - inviting
her to serve as a Counting Assistant at the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary Elections on Thursday May 5th. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Having previously undertaken an identical role a couple of times in 2014 ... this one's her third! :smile:

[Arthur Little]

Funny now, though - looking back :icon_rolleyes: - to recall that the fee she'll receive for the 71/2-hours' overnight shift ... will be approximately equivalent to my net annual salary on starting work as an Insurance Clerk fifty~five years' ago! :cwm24:

[Michael Parnham]

Well done Myrna, I understand what your saying about your annual salary Arthur because when I started work my annual salary was £78, good old days :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[jonnijon]

Used to get £4/12/9 a week and 1/- income tax.:cwm23: When I left school. :icon_lol:

[Michael Parnham]

Used to get £4/12/9 a week and 1/- income tax.:cwm23: When I left school. :icon_lol:

Out of my £1 10s per week I had to give my Mum £1 for my board :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[jonnijon]

Out of my £1 10s per week I had to give my Mum £1 for my board :xxgrinning--00xx3:

You were lucky, mine only give me half crown.:cwm23:

[Michael Parnham]

You were lucky, mine only give me half crown.:cwm23:

Wow, I always remember my Grandpa used to say when he left school he worked for threepence a week :Erm:

[Arthur Little]

Wow, I always remember my *Grandpa used to say when he left school he worked for threepence a week :Erm:

Hmm, :icon_rolleyes: ... *mine [my Mum's father] started work as a brass finisher in 1895 - at the age of 13 - with Shanks's of Barrhead, with whom he remained until he was 73 - finally retiring in 1955 after sixty years' service.

However, unlike you, Michael ... :anerikke: ... I've no idea what his starting wage was - nor what he earned at the time of his retiral, :nono-1-1: ... but I'll bet the difference between the two - over the entire six decades of his working life - was nothing like the contrast over a corresponding length of time from the mid~1950s up till the present day.

[Michael Parnham]

Hmm, :icon_rolleyes: ... *mine [my Mum's father] started work as a brass finisher in 1895 - at the age of 13 - with Shanks's of Barrhead, with whom he remained until he was 73 - finally retiring in 1955 after sixty years' service.

However, unlike you, Michael ... :anerikke: ... I've no idea what his starting wage was - nor what he earned at the time of his retiral, :nono-1-1: ... but I'll bet the difference between the two - over the entire six decades of his working life - was nothing like the contrast over a corresponding length of time from the mid~1950s up till the present day.

Would be interesting to find out Arthur:Erm: