On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:19:05 GMT, "." [email protected] wrote:

the pilot wrote:
No. There are no fixed rates for any employment and skill - apart
from possibly in local government, etc. But few councils have staff
in this sort of area anymore - they use contractors.

I've managed to find that an unskilled 'adult general operative' is
paid £6.42/hr minimum, and a 'skilled craftsman' is paid £8.38
minimum. Plus mileage, OT etc.

But what typically would an employed skilled bricklayer be paid, and
what would it be if self employed ???

I'm trying to do a comparison with say a architecural designer, who
can start at £25000

clean hands, fixed hours, suite & tie, company car, a few years at uni
(with opportunity to learn second/third language & shag all the girls)
starting /salary/ of £25k, excellent prospects, possibility of global
placements with the right firm, especially if you've chosen the right
language ... one of the Chinese languages would be a good move ;-)

OR

dirty hands, dirty clothes, oiks for workmates, outdoors in all weathers,
fixed payscale, /wages/, building site politics, years of crap pay and
long hours until he can start out on his own by which time he could
have earned up to a 1/4 million in salary ....

for a young lad just starting out it's a no brainer.


YMMWV




A few things don't seem quite right he

- Fixed hours for case 1

- Suit and tie are an advantage?

- Politics only for case 2?

- Shagging all the girls only available for case 1?


Apart from that, case 1 would appear to be the more attractive of the
two.


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..andy