[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

I see on FB that Somers Fishing Tackle shop in Aberdeen is advertising a job vacancy:

Job Vacancy - We are looking for a new member of staff. To work 4 or 5 days a week. Fishing experience is essential.
For more details please contact the shop on 01224 210008

[Rob Brownfield]

Could be a nice wee change for Ben

[Matt Henderson]

I thought you were the one that had just resigned Rob?

[Rob Brownfield]

I thought you were the one that had just resigned Rob?

Not sure I could survive on £3.50 and hour plus all the ragworm I could eat

To tell the truth, if I was semi retired, I would jump at the chance.

[Jim Eddie]

Not sure I could survive on £3.50 and hour plus all the ragworm I could eat

To tell the truth, if I was semi retired, I would jump at the chance.

Rob

They could not afford you 

 

Jim

[Mike Barrio]

Why doesn't a job like this appeal to people? It should do

Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

Why doesn't a job like this appeal to people? It should do

Cheers
Mike

Mike
Simply beacuse it will not pay enough money to maintain a decent standard of living. OK if you are retired or semi retired and just want an interest.

 

Jim

[Ben Dixon]

Mike
Simply beacuse it will not pay enough money to maintain a decent standard of living. OK if you are retired or semi retired and just want an interest.

 

Jim

You've nailed it Jim, not sure how much they are offering however I'm sure it will be competitive when measured against other retailers.  The money isn't there to pay really.

Cheers

Ben 

[Rob Brownfield]

...but you get all the ragworm you can eat!

[Mike Barrio]

Something very seriously wrong with this surely? ...... We all want to go into town and buy stuff in shops, but we wouldn't work there ourselves because the people serving us don't earn enough to maintain a decent standard of living?

Cheers
Mike

[Euan Innes]

Something very seriously wrong with this surely? ...... We all want to go into town and buy stuff in shops, but we wouldn't work there ourselves because the people serving us don't earn enough to maintain a decent standard of living? oh well

We don't all want to go to town Mike. I'll go to Banchory, but not Aberdeen.
I'll not go back into retail unless it is my own shop and I don't need the money. The best way to make a million out of a fishing tackle shop is to start with two.

Full time in a tackle shop in Aberdeen will probably only pay £16k MAX and that means, for me, no car, no nice house, and probably no fishing as all my money will be spent on just living. That would be like me and my wife living on just her wages and me having no income! 
At least when I worked in Banchory I was in subsidized housing and the free fishing was on my doorstep. I still had to do other work to make ends meet.

Retail has never been treated as a proper job and until it is the wages will suck, and at the end of the day it is all about the money. Sad but true...

 

[Mike Barrio]

Hi Euan,

Sorry, by "into town" I meant to the shops ........ city, town or village.

[Rob Brownfield]

I LOVE going to tackle shops.

I would be interested to see the throughput of a typical Scottish Game angling shop compared to that of a typical English Coarse shop.

[Mike Barrio]

I still think this is a great opportunity for a keen fisher, these jobs don't come up very often

Cheers
Mike

[Liam Stephen]

If I was back home I would jump at the opurtunity. Regardless of salary, I've always loved the idea of involving your passion with your work. I'm sure they'll find someone.

Cheers
Liam

[Jim Eddie]

Something very seriously wrong with this surely? ...... We all want to go into town and buy stuff in shops, but we wouldn't work there ourselves because the people serving us don't earn enough to maintain a decent standard of living?

Cheers
Mike

Mike the fact that as individuals we decide to go or not go into shops will not effect the average wage of retail workers in the UK I think that everyone should be entitled to a decent living wage. I think this is part of the greater problem where wages are so low that you are as well off on benifits.

 

Jim

[Matt Henderson]

Difficult one we all love a bargain. So people buy stuff from the interweb instead and even if people don't buy off the interweb they at the very least shop around a lot before they buy things. So as a retailer how do they hope to get a decent margin. They then cut the margin which has an impact on wage levels. It's a viscous circle. Low wages mean that people that are genuinely enthusiastic and knowledgable end up keeping it as a hobby rather than a job where they can pass on their knowledge and enthusiasm.

[Jim Eddie]

Difficult one we all love a bargain. So people buy stuff from the interweb instead and even if people don't buy off the interweb they at the very least shop around a lot before they buy things. So as a retailer how do they hope to get a decent margin. They then cut the margin which has an impact on wage levels. It's a viscous circle. Low wages mean that people that are genuinely enthusiastic and knowledgable end up keeping it as a hobby rather than a job where they can pass on their knowledge and enthusiasm.

I hear what you are saying, but retail wages have always been low, even in the glory days of the high street shop in the 50's and 60's long  before the out of town supermarkets or the interweb existed.

[Jim Eddie]

The average salary for a Retail manager (not assistant) in the UK is £25K which by coincidence is the average national salary in the UK. The average Oil Company salary in Aberdeen is £64K.

Not fair I know, but a fact of life.

http://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-retail-manager-salary