Minimum amount worth working for

[syl]

What's the minimum amount that you'd consider working to earn?

I recently got a new job and moved house. Fortunately, I get paid reasonably well. My wife has had to give up her job and is looking around for something else.

She was offered a job the other day, in her regular line of work. But:

It's at a lower rate of pay than she's used to.
It's a 100 mile round trip cross country (and 3 hours) or 150 miles on the motorway (and 2 hours).
It's only for 6 1/2 hours per day.
It's the week before Christmas (so we'd have to pay for child care).

It's a no brainer and she's going to have to say no (she would actually loose money).

But I wondered, after tax and expenses, what's the minimum you'd consider doing a days work for?
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[california_rookie]

I've no limit. Whatever it takes to make ends meet. If I was unemployed and needed a job, I'd take pretty much anything. If pressed, I suppose I'd have to say $2.00/hr?
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[TUG]

£1
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seriously, in life you wont get an easy ride, you have to work hard for everything. i'm looking for work and can say i'd have anything with long hours.
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[Ariel Badger]

£20K.
I need that to live.
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[TheDonUK]

I would say for 5 days of my hard work, at the minimum 250 after tax, reallistically it needs to be 400-500+

Anything after the 250 is for enjoying life and having spare to cover unforseen costs...

[Ariel Badger]

[stinkwheel]

All depends on the circumstances.

I could forsee the circumstance where I'd do a days work for a meal and space in a dry barn to sleep in.
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[TheDonUK]

Around that, Realistically to "Live" somewhat, rather than just sustain existance 20k +

[tatters]

don't get out of bed for less than £30,000 per year which is about £13-14 per hour
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[yzf750r]

Im on £12 p/h and dont think I would work for any less now!

Luckily my job, is a job for life as long as I dont fuck up.
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[TheShaggyDA]

If I went without the luxuries (cat, vehicles, broadband, tv, mobile phones, insurance, takeouts etc.) then £15k would be enough for the two of us. To add those luxuries, it has to go up to £20k. If I wanted to move and also pay into a pension, It would go up to £35k.

If I were single, I could live quite frugaly though. As Stink said, if the conditions warranted it, I'd work for a bed and a meal. A homeless guy I was chatting to a couple of months ago does a few hours work a day at a pig farm. He has a the use of the showers there, a clean change of clothes, money for food and kips in a hostel. This keeps him above the level of sleeping in piss soaked doorways. You do what you have to do.
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[JonB]

No less than 20k.


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[feef]

Assuming it's to survive, without being extravagent, then I'd not get out of be for less than £40k pa

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[NSR Mick]

I've survived ok on less than 10k, would get really hard with anything less than 20k these days though.
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[Jaloopa]

Any profit, or failing that something to reduce costs in other areas (free meal/accomidation) would be better than nothing. I've done work when I was out of the house for 11 hours a day, and paid £10 a day. At the time that was cool (first ever job).

My living costs at the moment are about £8 a day rent, usually less than a fiver a day for food, plus luxuries like phone, broadband, TV licence etc. Overall I reckon I could survive on £20 per day if I had to, after travelling expenses etc.
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[Keir]

I currently work part time for about £1 - £2 an hour (it varies) but this is a volenteer job which pays me £10 each time i go in regardless of how long i spend there.
I make enough money from my day job to live so with the part time job im looking for satifaction not money.
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[MoshizZ]

Stop moaning about being on less than £10! Id do anything for £6 a hour!

I work part time in a pub as a glass collector/waiter, bare in mind im 17 and minimum wage is a disgraceful £3.30, i work for £3.60, it sucks and i want a better job, i do a poor ammount of hours, dont get taxed though.

What you guys get taxed a week is probably twice what i earn!

Rate of pay is stupid.

Its now against the law to have age discrimination, yet we still have minimum wage for under 18's, anyone else think this is ironic?
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Even being a student i wouldn't bother for less than a fiver an hour.
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