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Interesting to see that bin men can expect their pay to start at £17k PA while landscapers can only expect to earn £15k!
Must be skilled work dragging a bin over to a lorry and pressing a button.
Bin work is council employment and there are shifts involved. A new landscaper working for a small business won't get that much we all know.
Nursery workers, Growers no mention?
In September 1980 when I started Nursery work, it paid £1 per hour. So I worked 80 hours a week to double my income.
Nearly 32 years later working in Horticulture, I still work 60-70 hours a week. Why? Well for the simple reason that plants do not work a basic 5 day week.
In 30 years time, which I still intend to be around for, and still working, I expect that nothing will really change.
When I began my career in Horticulture back in 1980, I was told by a fellow work mate, "If you follow this career, you will never be rich, but, you will be happy"
Guess they were right.
Our reward is far greater than being just another Office bod!
You don't even have to press a button chris!
My bin men will only take the one bin.
So I waited for them to empty it, then I refilled it, took it to the back off the lorry, hooked it up, put my thumb up from behind the lorry to the driver, job done.
That took me three days of health and safety training, 2 weeks shadowing a senior waste control officer. O wait no it didn’t.
And yes it was the recycling waste.
PS.
Some years ago a programme called common as muck was on telly, that made me want to be a bin man.