30th January 2009, 03:41 PM
Hi 1man1desk,
I do like your replies...
I do kmow of people digging in the 70s, on paltry amounts.
I started as a "doley digger" in 1985. There was s tiny amount of funding (sometimes) for the projects I was on, from the local council or due to the dig being a MSC project.
I was offered an a MSC place on long-running dig but TURNED IT DOWN.
The others got 90 per week as diggers, for four days per week.
I got 28.50 per week as a "doley volunteer" on site (but by not being MSC registered, I could also go to college for 12 hours a week - which MSC diggers could not do). I knew that none of us would get a permanent job from that site. It would still be DOLE for us all, at the end. At least I ended up with A levels.
(I even had a RESTART interviewer telling me to do this!)
But yes, 1man1desk, my "good old days" were better than some others.
As for the future?...........no idea
I do like your replies...
I do kmow of people digging in the 70s, on paltry amounts.
I started as a "doley digger" in 1985. There was s tiny amount of funding (sometimes) for the projects I was on, from the local council or due to the dig being a MSC project.
I was offered an a MSC place on long-running dig but TURNED IT DOWN.
The others got 90 per week as diggers, for four days per week.
I got 28.50 per week as a "doley volunteer" on site (but by not being MSC registered, I could also go to college for 12 hours a week - which MSC diggers could not do). I knew that none of us would get a permanent job from that site. It would still be DOLE for us all, at the end. At least I ended up with A levels.
(I even had a RESTART interviewer telling me to do this!)
But yes, 1man1desk, my "good old days" were better than some others.
As for the future?...........no idea