![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-went-from-minimum-wage-to-earning-40k-in-a-fast-food-job-everyone-looks-down-on-i-even-get-paid-to-do-a-degree/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TOB-op-KFC-v2.jpg&description=FAST CASH I went from minimum wage to earning £40k in a fast food job everyone looks down on – I even get paid to do a degree MOST people think starting at the bottom and working your way through the ranks of a company can take years, if not decades. But Shahid Aslam, 40, started working in a minimum wage job at KFC after moving to the UK from Pakistan in 2014. 2 Shahid with his team at KFC 2 Shadid started as a team member in KFC before working his way up the ranks And within four months he had been promoted to assistant manager earning £18,000. The dad of three briefly took a job working at a well-known pub chain. However, in 2016 he decided to come back to KFC into his role as assistant manager. By 2020, he had moved up to the role of restaurant manager. In that job he now earns £35,000, but including bonuses his annual salary comes in at around £39-40,000. 'Loads of people have the impression it's just chicken and chips – it's a lot more than that,' Shahid says. There is a big emphasis in the company on development, explains the dad based in Dudley. He adds: 'It's a proper career – loads of KFC staff end up becoming restaurant managers within two years.' Last year he started studying a business management degree, sponsored by the company. It is arranged that he takes a couple of days out of work each month to attend classes. With three young children under nine, he said he wouldn't have been able to study if it hadn't been for KFC. 'It was a brilliant opportunity,' he says. The course is spread over three and a half years and by the end of it he'll have a degree without any of the debt that most students end up with. Shahid says: 'When I first started [at KFC] it was just a normal job, there was no career plan, but suddenly after six or seven years I'm in a position where now there is a plan, my kids see me and feel proud. 'I never thought KFC would offer a degree." He added: "I've started from nothing... It's been an amazing journey for me.' Shahid has an espec){kind=link}
MOST people think starting at the bottom and working your way through the ranks of a company can take years, if not decades.
But Shahid Aslam, 40, started working in a minimum wage job at KFC after moving to the UK from Pakistan in 2014.
And within four months he had been promoted to assistant manager earning £18,000.
The dad of three briefly took a job working at a well-known pub chain.
However, in 2016 he decided to come back to KFC into his role as assistant manager.