Unfortunately I've had to abandon it after 6 weeks. £5 an hour. An hours travel to site and over an hour back due to rush hour, unpaid. If my colleague had holiday or was ill I would have to stay away from site so wouldn't get paid. The van broke down the other week so couldn't get to site, another unpaid day. Basically if anything stopped me working I wouldn't be paid, regardless of if I was at fault or not. Worked out at 40 quid a day. Basically labouring all day, moving tools, cable, etc etc. I feel I was being taken advantage of. Any of you agree? Having not been a regular in the trade I have no idea what's fair, but others I've spoken to within building trades have said I was being taken advantage of. Just interested what you guys think? What would you pay a trainee? Am I right to think it was totally unfair?