To think it's really not worth me working for £9.90 an hour

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I've been offered a role as a Care Assistant in admittedly a very nice home. Also, only doing care whereas many homes also require you to work in the kitchen, laundry etc. As well as doing the care.
However, I've seen that Aldi offer a starting salary of £10.50 an hour. Not saying Aldi is an easy job, but feel like 9.90 is just too low really.

The wages in care are ridiculous. They should be at least 12/13 pounds an hour
or higher. It’s actually disgusting

Care work can be terribly paid but with experience you can go self employed with a few choice clients.
My friend ex teacher does that and earns more than teaching.

That is shockingly low pay for care work. Have you asked if they would offer more? Always try and negotiate.

Has Aldi even offered you a job? If you have a job offer and need the money then I’d take it then look for other better paid ones after. If you don’t need to work or prefer to claim benefits then don’t take it.

I actually encouraged my dc to take a lower paid care job (than the supermarket job they were doing) because its the long term goals I encouraged them to look at. Currently working in nhs as band 2 which is appalling pay but the long term view is dc wants a job in health care so it will be worth it. Nhs also provide better holiday, pension and sickness benefits than where they were working. However if dc had said 'I'd be happy just working in minimum wage jobs all my life' I'd have encouraged them to stay put because my dc has seen about 3 deaths a week for the last year, been hit, spat and sworn at. Got covid and every other bug going. Worked more hours than they should have because of staff shortages.
So it basically depends on people's individual perspective, great if your using it as a stepping stone and you can see the short term loss will enable long term gain. Have you thought about an nhs job (they might help with courses to progress if that's what you want to do)?

Couldn’t pay me enough to do either, but then again I haven’t been paid less than £10 an hour since 18.

You’d be silly to turn down the job if you haven’t even got an offer from Aldi. But you wouldn’t be unreasonable to apply whilst starting in the new role.

This is why I work in a warehouse/ factory. Easy job. No stress. Decent pay (more than aldi).

Take the Aldi job. You won’t have back problems and unsociable hours, unlike the care sector . Until care workers are paid better they will struggle to recruit. Share holders in care sector continue to make millions of course. A lot of care homes are owned by huge companies.

I work in support and that can be better pay. Depending on how challenging. Plus get paid to sleep. We get extra per hour for overtime too.

What are your goals ? My niece was a care assistant. She qualified as a nurse last year after then moving on to work as a HCA in a hospital. She absolutely loves her job and she is mid thirties with two children.

In care the amount of responsibility you have vs your salary is ridiculous. It depends on your longer term goals because arguably there are more transferable skills in care than in a supermarket. Care work is soul destroying. The hours and challenges can become unwieldy. There's very good reason why the care sector has very high turn over rates and struggles to recruit and retain.

YANBU. It's fucking disgusting what carers are paid.

YABU.
Three years ago I took a temporary job working in a call centre for £9.50 an hour, which admittedly was above the minimum wage of £8.72 at that time, after a period out of work. I am a former primary teacher with a postgraduate level of education. I was one of at least eight or nine primaey or secondary teachers working there. And I had an hour bus ride with a half hour walk at the end of it to get there.

So no, I don't understand your attitude to work at all.

The pp who said you wouldn’t end up with a bad back or working in social working at aldi- has never worked in retail!
The work is heavy, continuous and often cold- unloading a delivery of frozen food and racking it in a walk in freezer, even with ppe on us brutal! It is definitely really physical work and only for those with no pre-existing back problems or similar.
Unsocial hours- you could be working well after store closure Christmas Eve preparing for sale, early on Boxing Day to get replenished (I’ve done 4am starts on Boxing Day albeit at a different retailer) I also used to work such long hours on Christmas week I would stay in a hotel near the store despite only working 20 miles from where I lived. There is so much preconceived ideas about retail work being an easy option but it’s very fast paced, as everyone wants their pound of flesh. Im so glad to be out of it.

Um, care work isn't relaxed or all about sitting playing games or having tea with the residents. It's absolutely non stop. It's physically and mentally demanding and you get constant stick from senior staff, visitors, residents and fellow care workers (if you don't work fast enough). You have to constantly cut corners and don't have time for proper breaks. Shifts are usually 12 hours as well. Home managers are either evil or totally disengaged - sometimes both - and the residents and visitors make up lies about workers to get them into trouble.

Have you been offered a job in Aldi?
If not, what's the relevance?

What about other supermarkets? Tesco, Asda and M&S seem to have employees who stay until retirement, a very good sign.
In my few local Aldis' there seems to be a high staff turnover 🤔

In terms if pay its not much difference.
Working in care takes a special person and could be very rewarding for you.
Is it money that will swing it for you.
I know I couldn't do the job and I'd be off to aldi.

That's an extreamly low pay for care. I'm in care and we get 11 an hour in the week and 12 at a weekend.

Yanbu the pay for carers is appalling, no wonder you can't get decent staff and hear all the horror stories.
I'd start the job anyway but perhaps look around and apply while you work.
Personally I'm all for the nice cushy jobs, data entry is decent pay and you don't have to put up with as much bullshit.

Article in FT (Which it doesn't want me to share) suggests employers can employ migrants but there's a floor of £10.10 on the wage.

So why shouldn't they offer UK people more?

So you’ve interview and received an offer on a job the was advertised as competitive but it £9.70 an hour. Why dont you negotiate? Tell them supermarkets are offering more for a less skilled role, and that you were expecting at least £11 ph. Point out your skills and experience in your email to them

Unfortunately, that’s the wage in care. You could have looked that up before. There’s a lot of places who offer a higher wage. Not just Aldi

there are a lot of jobs advertised in care without putting the wage, or they put between this and that, but then you find out its lower. Not putting the wage is frustrating as how would people know what is going to suit their pocket ?

Holiday express are paying £11.50 for housekeeping and some catering firms are paying £12.95 per hour for staff. £9.90 is a very low wage

I’d choose to work for Aldi but then I’m not a very caring person!

I do have children but caring for anyone else wouldn’t work for me.

Ive worked in shops before and found it’s at least sociable and “in the real world” so I’d go for that esp for more money