Less than £2 p/h putting cars through the car wash. Started in November 98. Freezing. More or less broke even by lunchtime after a McDonald's, the afternoon was pure profit...
I got paid about £4 an hour at Argos in Birmingham. A bloke came in once and threatened to burn the store to the ground because we'd run out of Clairol foot spas. Foot spas were all the rage then. Don't hear of them now of course - not since the great foot spa fire of 1998 🧐