[Closed] Nice job op if any of you can ride and write...

I think those 2 requirements pretty much rule out most of this forum!

if you are successful mention me and I think I get a bonus off them.

What happens we are bloody awful and mention you?

£24,000 per year

Either they're looking to exploit a school leaver, or it's part time. 😆

Either they’re looking to exploit a school leaver, or it’s part time

28 days including bank holidays leave, most places give you 28 days plus bank holidays!

Either they’re looking to exploit a school leaver, or it’s part time.

For basically a mountain biker with tech knowledge, who can read and write - £24k with 28 days hol is pretty good tbh. Was expecting 20k max.

Either they’re looking to exploit a school leaver, or it’s part time. 😆

Hardly a high stress/high skill position...

Yeah, but £24K - that's like a nurse's salary! Or one from the 90s.

“Yeah, but £24K – that’s like a nurse’s salary! Or one from the 90s.”

Do you know anyone under 40?

Yeah, but £24K – that’s like a nurse’s salary! Or one from the 90s.

Don't look at wages for a bike mechanic, or retail, or customer services. They dream of 24k a year.

28 days including bank holidays leave, most places give you 28 days plus bank holidays!

no they dont

Christ where do you lot all work? 24K would be better than I earn and most people I know get 28days including bank hols.

The privileged earners are out today...

I've never earned that much.

I get a bonus off them

Shouldn't it be "I get a bonus from them"?

I'm not a great writer and my riding is even worse.

Ahh, 28 including bank holidays. That's pretty crap, what's that 21 days then?

Normally it's 25 + Bank Holidays, that's what I'd expect at most places.

Or a fabrication job up North, I was offered a starting wage of £9.50 p/h with the promise it would soon be £10something if I was up to scratch.

So about £20k pa.

Yep, a huge percentage of the population live on, or just above, minimum wage.

This is why I tell people to think long and hard if they say they want to be a writer. Even if you're good, it's not easy to make good money from it.

Combine that with bike industry stingy wages and it's a double whammy.

Still three times my starting salary on a local rag in the 90s though.

Similar to what I do now, but I sure as hell don't get £24k a year! Holidays are what they are, its average and nothing better. Wages in the industry are low, but the discount you get kind of goes someway to make up the difference.

28 days including bank holidays leave, most places give you 28 days plus bank holidays!

Do they?

Yep, a huge percentage of the population live on, or below, minimum wage.

FTFY.

When I landed back in a bike mechanic job at the age of 35 I would have killed for 24 grand a year. Some lucky people never have to realise how many millions of people live on much less than that.

Anyway, this sounds like a good job for someone. Can someone find me something similar? I want to travel the world sampling all the different guiding companies, covering events and finding an excuse to visit Whistler every summer. I'd love to write about stuff like that. Sitting in my spare room trying to regurgitate a press release about a turbo trainer sounds like a nightmare.

Wages in the industry are low, but the discount you get kind of goes someway to make up the difference.

That's literally the only thing I miss. Paying RRP for tyres is an absolute gut-punch.

I was once offered a job at a major bike distributors.got the job and they offered me something like 14k.so for the bike industry that looks good.

Anyway, this sounds like a good job for someone. Can someone find me something similar? I want to travel the world sampling all the different guiding companies, covering events and finding an excuse to visit Whistler every summer. I’d love to write about stuff like that.

Literally none of that.

Sitting in my spare room trying to regurgitate a press release about a turbo trainer sounds like a nightmare.

Literally all of this. Believe me.

Unless they spread the love to other "lesser" folks, the only people that travel in the industry are the full-on journo's or the people who do the buying and hold the cheque book. Sounds like a good job all the same, but if you want to travel the world and get free stuff to test rather than just testing what you buy, you'd need to get a job a mag/online news/review site.

Not far off the average wage, pretty good for an EO in the civil service

I am sure you would get the stuff given to you.not so sure if you would have to give it back.

I am sure you would get the stuff given to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">you.not</span> so sure if you would have to give it back.

As journo, yes. For this, probably not.

Not wanting to put the job down, as I say I do something similar myself and it's OK, just don't apply expecting to be thrown the latest and greatest parts to go out and "test"!

Sounds like you'll most likely be writing the bumf underneath the image on the product page of the stuff they sell from how I read it.

Sounds like you’ll most likely be writing the bumf underneath the image on the product page of the stuff they sell from how I read it.

100% this.

I don’t know, but don’t expect trade price for stuff you buy. I know some bigger shops don’t allow staff that, just a flat 25% off RRP, so that would be worth checking at interview.

Anyone else wondering what @dezb earns?

£24,500?

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Yeah, but £24K – that’s like a nurse’s salary!

But a nurse deserves to be paid more than someone sat on their arse writing selling points for bike bits.

Are you required to do both at the same time? Could be tricky.

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Anyone else wondering what @dezb earns?

That pic was me 10 years ago before I got made redundant. I can't boast of a big packet these days (fnaar).
Seriously though, my perspective is from being on £18K in 1988, in my first (very unskilled) job... dunno what the inflation rate would put that up to now! I would think more than £24000. How can you buy a house (or even rent one) on that sort of money?

But where are all the people who buy £160 sunglasses and Loake shoes on this thread?!

But a nurse deserves to be paid more than someone sat on their arse writing selling points for bike bits.

Couldn't ****ing agree more.

A quick google suggests that average salary in 1986 was £3.87 per hour which, assuming a 37.5 hour working week, is around £7,500 a year. You were on £18,000. Average salary now is 29-30k a year. Do let me know where is offering unskilled jobs, paying £70k. (Apart from 'Memeber of Parliament')

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/09/wage-gap-rich-poor-widens-25-years-data

Nice job op if any of you can ride and write…

where is offering unskilled jobs, paying £70k. (Apart from ‘Memeber of Parliament’)

Delicious irony.

Wait til you guys here about zero hour contracts.

dunno what the inflation rate would put that up to now! I would think more than £24000. 

Do you think wages have been adjusted for inflation? How quaint.

How can you buy a house (or even rent one) on that sort of money?

Is that a giant penny about to drop? Do you even live in the UK? Have you seen what's going on out there?

I want to travel the world sampling all the different guiding companies, covering events and finding an excuse to visit Whistler every summer.

What you need is a time machine. I did the windsurf/kitesurf equivalent early 80s to early 2000s. That was working for a magazine when they were a big money making industry.
And that would be about 20 weeks a year on beaches plus good money. Try to explain to your partner though that your 4th Caribbean trip during the summer is work and No! she can’t come as we can’t afford it. And judging bikini contests is part of the job. Stress I tell you.

Seriously though, my perspective is from being on £18K in 1988, in my first (very unskilled) job…

What were you doing? (Genuine question!) I was earning much less than that as a cancer research technician in central London in 1989, including London weighting.

Back when Dirt still existed, I'd have copychecked them for free just to stop the magazine from hurting my soul.

Do you think wages have been adjusted for inflation? How quaint.

Well, if you were as much of smart guy as you're making out, you'd realise I [i]know[/i] that they haven't. And that's kind of my point.

What was I doing for £18K in '88 - I found a job working for a Microfilm company, taking photos of technical drawings in '87 and got promoted to office supervisor in '88. It's been downhill all the way since then.
Anyway, £24K is still shit money, whatever way you look at it (or me).

I used to work in a similar (non bike) role, a few years back. I was mostly taking the photos, but I wrote a bit of copy too. Wasn't the worst job, and most of the bad was the company - so if Sigma are decent to work for then it might not be too bad.

I'd echo what's been said about freebies and cheap stuff though - I think we got a flat 15% off full price stuff. I didn't want to buy any of it though, so that was fine.

I (and the full time copywriter) was on a LOT less than 24k, for that role I reckon it's a pretty decent wage. Especially given the current state of affairs. And I think the holiday allowance is the legal minimum, which is pretty crap but common.

I'm now earning a smidge over average wage (I think 28k?) and in a much nicer job, thanks for asking.

Well, if you were as much of smart guy as you’re making out

I think you've got the wrong person. I've gone about life arse over tit and done everything wrong at least once. I certainly haven't earned the right to act smart.

I'd happily leave my teaching job for that. Will apply this evening.

24k does not seem especially low to me and in any event they're hardly going to offer a crazy high salary for a job that many people would love to do.

I earn £24k (FTE, I'm actually 0.8PT), it's classed as a graduate level job where I am (HE sector), but I also get awesome holidays and a great renumeration package, I made the choice to earn "less" to get the benefits.

I left a similar job to this one in the bike industry, on lower wages and statutory benefits, such as 28 days leave inc BH, statutory sick pay (funnily enough no-one was ever off sick, even the feller who broke his leg came in to do paperwork in the stores!) and Govt pension scheme through Nest.

If I'd stayed in teaching I'd be doing better now but I didn't. Thankfully Mr Kip has so we can pay our mortgage, bills, eat and live pretty well albeit not as nicely as others. Thems the choices we make, wouldn't change it (for the most part!).

But where are all the people who buy £160 sunglasses and Loake shoes on this thread?!

They're too busy being captains of industry (whilst looking nervously over their shoulders at the impending brexyviral doom).