Whilst awaiting a letter /call from the MoD, in 1963, I got me a job with the NCB at £5.2.0 a week , with a free 6 mile bus trip to work at 5.15 every morning- my first real job, and real wage.
It was worth it though as the girl who paid me my wages every Friday, became my wife of 53 years , and is still going strong!
My first income was 18 shillings a day picking veg on a farm outside Cardiff, in the school holidays.