Mad Moe
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Plumbers can easily take home well over 26k a year btw, and nearly double.
I work in the building trade and know very few plumbers anywhere near the £50K mark
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John
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Plumbers can easily take home well over 26k a year btw, and nearly double.
not in the current climate, maybe 3 years ago.
( my dad and uncle are plumbers - uncle is on dole because of no work )
They can in the current climate, I know one that take home well over that.
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Markus
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Originally posted by Markus
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Originally posted by John
Plumbers can easily take home well over 26k a year btw, and nearly double.
not in the current climate, maybe 3 years ago.
( my dad and uncle are plumbers - uncle is on dole because of no work )
They can in the current climate, I know one that take home well over that.
wish my uncle can, hes been unemployed for months now my dad has to go back to hgv driving
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John
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This one has got that much work he can't fit it all in, he works at least 6 days a week every week.
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Markus
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This one has got that much work he can't fit it all in, he works at least 6 days a week every week.
which part of the country are you from ?
theres no jobs what so ever down here
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John
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Glasgow
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Mad Moe
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Is he self employed?
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Markus
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must be alot more work there down here there isnt anything, the closet job i can get in what im qualified in is 120 mile away
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John
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Originally posted by Mad Moe
Is he self employed?
I'm not sure what way he does it but yes.
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Mad Moe
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I could understand him earning that sort of money being self employed but a plumber working for a company would be pushing £30K-£35K absolute max
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mjw_2k2
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trust me lads the money is not that good when your low down in the ranks with not alot of experience, the lads on the ground need and deserve alot more money than they are actually getting, ive been out there 6 times in the last 4 years and only got about £10 extra a day, which is nothing really for the shit ive been through!
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John
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What did you expect when you joined the army?
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mjw_2k2
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my cpl who had done 6 years was on 26k out there, ive done 4 years and still only on 20k, a private of 2 years on the ground will only be on about 15k which is just rubbish for what we have to do
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mjw_2k2
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Im in the RAF but its the same pay scales
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John
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Are the pay scales and the fact you have to go to war not well known before you join?
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Markus
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Are the pay scales and the fact you have to go to war not well known before you join?
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Ojc
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This has always been the case for the army though, you have the aristocratic cunts in charge up top earning hundreds of thousands prancing around Whitehall and attending tea parties with the Queen, while the real grafters are getting blow to pieces riding around in inadequate APC's with inadequate equipment.
You join the Army expecting to be supported by the Government and paid a decent wage.
You could earn more at McDonalds (no offence to those that work there) FFS which to me is an absolute disgrace.
Some lads just want to join the army to have the comradeship, the chance to restart their lives and bring some meaning to everything.
Policeman and such like get paid more than the basic infantry soldier, and that is wrong. Policeman are lazy, moaning useless twats who aren't being attacked on a daily basis by an enemy brandishing AK47 and RPGs that you couldn't distinguish from a citizen of Bradford.
I'm ranting.
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John
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Are the pay scales and the fact you have to go to war not well known before you join?
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Ojc
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That isn't the point at all. In relation to what a Police officer earns and to some extent Fireman, an Infantry soliders pay is disgusting.
For some people the army is the only route to a decent career, not paying them a decent wage is another way of preventing the average citizen from moving up from the council estates of Britain.
I sound like a fucking Liberal now 
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John
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I want to be a fighter pilot, apart from getting to fly fancy planes you get a 60k licence for free, while getting paid.
I know I'd have to sign my life away for 7 years though and get shot by guys with rpgs though so I don't apply.
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MarkM
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Ojc has a point.
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Ojc
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But you have that option avaliable to you.
I suspect you have been educated to some degree, I suspect that the average Infantry solider would have prefered to be attending Top Gun, but due to their upbringing and lack of education they are limited to being Infantry soldiers. Does that make them less worthy of a decent wage?
To me that makes them MORE worthy of a decent wage.
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John
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You can't start rewarding lack of education, then the whole place falls apart even more than it is already.
It's an unskilled job for unskilled people that by your own admission won't get a job anywhere else, I don't see how that means they should be paid anymore.
The smart option is not to go somewhere you'll get shot at imo.
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mjw_2k2
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Are the pay scales and the fact you have to go to war not well known before you join?
are they hell!!! i just got a paragraph description of my job which is nothing like what im doing and then got given the papers lol, alot of people dont know what theyre signing up for!!
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John
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Without doing any research at all I know that you get about 16k, get shot at and people are always moaning about the sub-standard equipment, surely everybody with a TV knows that.
They even talk about it in The Sun so there's no excuse for not knowing.
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