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Default OT Apprentices and wages

On 22/02/2015 21:51, Mr Pounder wrote:
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In 1966 this would have been unheard off. My father would/could not have
paid one old penny for my apprenticeship.
He was one of those silly people who did not live in a scum council house,
thus he never had much money.



My father didn't live in a Council house. That didn't stop him from
progressing from a skilled manual worker to Director of a company owned
by one of the multinationals.

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Colin Bignell