Third Time Lucky!

[Arthur Little]

... 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.

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

[Arthur Little]

Funny now, though - looking back - 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!

[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

[jonnijon]

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

[Michael Parnham]

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

Out of my £1 10s per week I had to give my Mum £1 for my board

[jonnijon]

Out of my £1 10s per week I had to give my Mum £1 for my board

You were lucky, mine only give me half crown.

[Michael Parnham]

You were lucky, mine only give me half crown.

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

[Arthur Little]

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

Hmm, ... *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 ... ... I've no idea what his starting wage was - nor what he earned at the time of his retiral, ... 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.