addjunkie
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This is quite common or was.In his twenties my grandad worked at Lloyds, I don't know exactly what he did but he wasn't on much at the time though apparently he would have worked up to a pretty decent wage had he stuck with it. His mates were all on more than him working at a paint factory so he quit.
I used to work along side a guy offshore, he had started out as a graduate recruit with RBS...going places etc etc.....his father in law worked at Grangemouth, got him astart as a shift operator, coz it paid far more. Some 30 years later he was still a shift operator but then offshore, most lazy person I everworked with, had brains, should have gone places, but never did.
Other case was a lad I was at school with started aprenticeship at Parsons, quit to work in the local concrete works as it paid almost 4 times what the apprentice was on.....last I saw him was in the local doctors when I took my old man who still lived in the same village, at 55 he was knackered after working in the concrete works since. Didnt recognise him he looked about 75.
Now the real jobs that once were, skilled paid a decent living wage, seem to have slipped back towards minimum wage as hands on skills seem to have been devalued.