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National Insurance Card help?
Okay so im 15 and my ni card came in the post the other day.
my birthday isn't until november but i'd like to know if i can get a saturday job now while im 15 instead of waiting til im 16 because i have the card. Can anybody help me out as im kind of confused, thankyou! :) x
my birthday isn't until november but i'd like to know if i can get a saturday job now while im 15 instead of waiting til im 16 because i have the card. Can anybody help me out as im kind of confused, thankyou! :) x
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It is not really a national insurance "card" anymore it is just a statement of what your NI number is, ( It may be on a card, but a card was only used, when there was a physical stamp stuck on, to indicate that NI had been paid in any week, now it is done by bank payment to the tax man, ( the Department of Works and Pensions ),and yes, you can get work, but as a 15 year old you will be restricted as to the hours you can work in total, in a week ( usually 20 hours max, including theatre work if you do acting ), and will not be permitted to work nights, most 15 year olds, get work stacking supermarket shelves or as Saturday assistants, in Chemists these are not generally advertised, just ask any store if they need one as a part time worker, after a few tries some one always says yes, just stick to the process, you will get there. That is how the winners in life behave, they get out there, and knock on doors, do auditions, ask around all the time, and do it again and again, sooner or later you are the one in the right place, at the right time, that is not luck, it is not chance, if you want a life and a career, that is how it gets done !!!
And keep records of starting dates and wage slips ( you have no idea how much of a problem you will have if you lose these , one last thing , when you keep these wage slips write down the cost of a gallon of petrol (or a litre), and a loaf of bread, or a dozen eggs, on the back, and in the years to come, you can see whether your life has increased in value, or whether your bosses are screwing you as time goes by, and if your life has actually been an upward climb or a downward slope.
Because all money loses value as time goes by, usually, even now, at the rate of 2.5% a year, so your life should increase in value at least at the rate of inflation annually, or you are going backward and being cheated by an employer, if it does not, and he is making an increased profit for himself, if he does this to your wage.
Then get up and leave, after you have found another better job, having many jobs does not stop someone employing you, but being stuck in one for decades will tell a possible boss that you are not someone considered as worthy of promotion, by your employers, so if you are still in the same position after 2 years, then it is time to look around for something better, you, like everyone else, only have so many working years coming to you, be ambitious, or you will lose out on too much, and trust me on this one nothing will chain you so much in old age as poverty...
Want a real scare ? then get an Argos catalogue and sit down with a pen and paper, and just add up from the prices, what it will cost during your life, to pay for home furnishing and carpets, wallpaper, washing machine, hoover, painting, tools and garden tools, seats settee, beds, cooker, fridge/ freezers, for a three bedroom house , and then realise that either age or fashion will mean that none of this will last more than five years, if you are lucky, before you have to replace it.
This does not include a house, that even at current rates, will cost three and a half times, it's original agreed purchase price, to pay off a 25 year mortgage, and then add a decent car, ( every five years, if you can look after the one you got, or even can, afford a garage or the tools ), and the cost of life, and contents, and car insurance, for you and a partner, and now think of kids and clothing and feeding and schooling if you want them to have a chance of a decent life .
Then realise, that that no one can actually afford to follow any path in life, that does not give a fair return for the hours of your life, do all you can not to get stuck in a low paid position and if you do, then get out and move on, that means putting a plan in place, and following it, set your time limits for staying in one place, two years at most, after that all the little lies told about you, by those around you, will start affecting your career, in some cases even where people will say that you told them that you were not interested in promotions or a raise ! believe me people do this cr@p, all the time, at work, and it can hurt even when you do not know about it, but if you move on, the damage ends there....
And keep records of starting dates and wage slips ( you have no idea how much of a problem you will have if you lose these , one last thing , when you keep these wage slips write down the cost of a gallon of petrol (or a litre), and a loaf of bread, or a dozen eggs, on the back, and in the years to come, you can see whether your life has increased in value, or whether your bosses are screwing you as time goes by, and if your life has actually been an upward climb or a downward slope.
Because all money loses value as time goes by, usually, even now, at the rate of 2.5% a year, so your life should increase in value at least at the rate of inflation annually, or you are going backward and being cheated by an employer, if it does not, and he is making an increased profit for himself, if he does this to your wage.
Then get up and leave, after you have found another better job, having many jobs does not stop someone employing you, but being stuck in one for decades will tell a possible boss that you are not someone considered as worthy of promotion, by your employers, so if you are still in the same position after 2 years, then it is time to look around for something better, you, like everyone else, only have so many working years coming to you, be ambitious, or you will lose out on too much, and trust me on this one nothing will chain you so much in old age as poverty...
Want a real scare ? then get an Argos catalogue and sit down with a pen and paper, and just add up from the prices, what it will cost during your life, to pay for home furnishing and carpets, wallpaper, washing machine, hoover, painting, tools and garden tools, seats settee, beds, cooker, fridge/ freezers, for a three bedroom house , and then realise that either age or fashion will mean that none of this will last more than five years, if you are lucky, before you have to replace it.
This does not include a house, that even at current rates, will cost three and a half times, it's original agreed purchase price, to pay off a 25 year mortgage, and then add a decent car, ( every five years, if you can look after the one you got, or even can, afford a garage or the tools ), and the cost of life, and contents, and car insurance, for you and a partner, and now think of kids and clothing and feeding and schooling if you want them to have a chance of a decent life .
Then realise, that that no one can actually afford to follow any path in life, that does not give a fair return for the hours of your life, do all you can not to get stuck in a low paid position and if you do, then get out and move on, that means putting a plan in place, and following it, set your time limits for staying in one place, two years at most, after that all the little lies told about you, by those around you, will start affecting your career, in some cases even where people will say that you told them that you were not interested in promotions or a raise ! believe me people do this cr@p, all the time, at work, and it can hurt even when you do not know about it, but if you move on, the damage ends there....
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- You can with permission from your school, but remember most places and i mean most places now don't hire people of school age. Places like supermarkets don't hire until you have officially left compulsory education. i know Morrison's just upted there minimum wage to 17. McDonald's/Burger King/KFC don't accept under 16s due to insurance rules and regs and high street stores such as Topshop/river island also followed the band wagon of not hiring until you have passed compulsory school age. So your going to find it difficult finding someone to take you on at your age, especially with the lack of jobs for everybody.
- I employed youngsters from the age of 14 on saturdays. All properly legal in the UK.
