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PasturesNew wrote: »Many jobs I did 20-25 years ago are still paying the same rate, for various reasons I won't go into except to say: PCs/technology and WTC.
For many roles there's been 0 wage inflation since the late 80s - and the number of those jobs has dropped by about 80% too.
There may be a few select industries and roles where this might be the case (I think we've said before, for example, that typists aren't as valued today as they were in 1980), but it isn't true for the majority of roles.
Average wage twenty years ago in 1990 was £13,760 (source), whereas isn't it about £24,000 now? So the average job today pays around 75% more than it did in 1990.0 -
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Sjay, you need to think laterally.
Have you family you can embarass into coughing up a few grand?
Is one of you in a key industry?
What about right-to-buy? Find a junkie living in a decent area and buy their rent book.
More than one way to skin a cat girlRetail is the only therapy that works0 -
This is more my styleSjay, you need to think laterally.
Have you family you can embarass into coughing up a few grand?
Is one of you in a key industry?
What about right-to-buy? Find a junkie living in a decent area and buy their rent book.
More than one way to skin a cat girl
Tom, how about internet lurve? This forum alone is full of several very clever and hundreds of very stupid women
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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