only getting £40 per day

[robertcrisp]

hi guys I'm doing the ND in arbor and part of my course i have to do 240HR of work experience, i have already got my cs30 and 31 so i got a upper hand on some of the others on my course but i got a work placement and he is only paying me £40 a day but i use my own saw and chain oil and petrol and costs me about £15 to get there and back every time i go. does anyone think this is ok or does anyone think i should be getting more???

[sean]

hi guys I'm doing the ND in arbor and part of my course i have to do 240HR of work experience, i have already got my cs30 and 31 so i got a upper hand on some of the others on my course but i got a work placement and he is only paying me £40 a day but i use my own saw and chain oil and petrol and costs me about £15 to get there and back every time i go. does anyone think this is ok or does anyone think i should be getting more???

 

depends what you are doing mate?

[Stephen Blair]

welcome to the real world:biggrin:

[liamjordan]

im doing ND Forestry and i need to do 240 hours work experience, i get paid £5 an hour which works out about £40 a day normally, so in the same boat, im doing what i love though so im not complaining at all, some people work for free to get there 240 hours.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i reckon you should be using his gear though!

[TreeSoloution]

What Shrek said !! We all started there... I was on 60.00 a week in 1994.

 

Companies do a favour to colleges offering places. Quite often they are not obliged to pay you anything.

[Tree Man Tom]

Most work placements through colleges dont pay at all, this is the case at my college anyway.

 

I think 40 is fine if your providing your own saw and travelling a fair distance, at least your covering costs.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

im doing ND Forestry and i need to do 240 hours work experience, i get paid £5 an hour which works out about £40 a day normally, so in the same boat, im doing what i love though so im not complaining at all, some people work for free to get there 240 hours.

 

Well that explains how such a skinny arb is holding such a whopping great bar! poser! lmao:lol:

 

couple of years in the game and youl "muscle up " lad!

[Rupe]

His fuel and oil at least! Thats just tight, its tax deductable and can't amount to much!

[shropshirestars]

i think you are overpaid

only joking just put up with it m8 for your training,you got to think how much your going to earn the guy,i'd just bite the bullet & think of the rewards when you pass,its not as if you are going to work for this guy fulltime

& think in the future you might be the one training guys would you pay top bucks to someone on work experience?

dont want to sound harsh but we've all been there,just make sure you do well all the best:thumbup: