Got a job at last

wantalc · Post: # 57750Post **wantalc** Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:22 pm

hi all well today i finally got myself a job

after being out of work for 10 months.. its subbying ime not to happy about that but hey ho its work..my hourly rate is Â£ 15.75 and i have to pay my own digs out of that...i have been on the books for the last 15 years so i am not to sure if that hourly rate is about right for a subby groundworker? oh the job is at the olympic village...any one know of some cheap digs in that area
....cheers

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:26 pm

the best place for digs in london is on the gumtree website .

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:29 pm

15 QUID is a good rate for london at the moment .are you starting for bam .

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:33 pm

congrats by the way too.if you need to know about areas to stay in east london pm me and i will let you know best ones for access to stratford etc . i have the pleasure of being an adopted west hammer.

digerjones · Post: # 57756Post **digerjones** Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:12 pm

well done mate. shame you got to get digs out of that but you should be kept busy till 2012

mickg · Post: # 57757Post **mickg** Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:15 pm

well done on finally getting a job, I am pleased for you........but why has it taken 10 months ?

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:25 pm

hes just got out of nick (only joking)

Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:49 pm

well done JJ
i fear that digs could be expensive in london
all the best
LLL

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:59 pm

look on gumtree . barking is a good base for olympics .overhead one stop to west ham . one stop tube to stratford . cheap digs a plenty .

wantalc · Post: # 57762Post **wantalc** Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:57 am

mickg wrote:well done on finally getting a job, I am pleased for you........but why has it taken 10 months ?

mickg tbh the first couple of months of being out of work i treated it as a holiday..then my redundancy money turned up so the holiday continued but i was looking for work on the books...i thought getting work on the books would be easy (wrong) thats why i have gone back to subbying...the last time i was a subby years ago i was on a 715 lol the good old days

i bet some of you chaps have good memories of the 715 voucher days ......cheers

Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:09 pm

showing your age there JJ
i remember lads selling their 715s in the pub and storing up a whole heap of trouble down the line,
they were the good old days when "bubbles" the landlord of "the melson arms" would cash lads cheques for 3 %
LLL

wantalc · Post: # 57781Post **wantalc** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:15 pm

i can remember blank vouchers changing hands for big money..and your right lll lads did get in big trouble abusing the 715 system....cheers

Post: # 57796Post **Tony McC** Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:57 am

There were as bent as a nine-pound note, the 715s, but life was so much simpler then. As an old contractor mate of mine used to say, with the 715s, you worked out how much tax you could afford to pay, and filled them in accordingly.

wantalc · Post: # 57809Post **wantalc** Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:11 pm

what i do remember about the 715 days was how you could literally pick and choose what site you wanted to work on..
finnish a job friday walk into a new one monday...oh how things have changed

mickavalon · Post: # 57810Post **mickavalon** Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:13 pm

The new CIS system ain't much better, not if your a contractor anyway, all the stress has been put on us, I now get fined each time I'm late with even a nil return, plus getting blokes to go and register is a nightmare. Most lads still see tax responsibilities as something to be avoided, fine for them, not so for the contractor