the original is at Steve's parents place...
O.K. – time for some shameless nostalgia. What was your first job? (not Mum telling you to clean your room but cash in hand etc)
1973. I was a broom boy in a shearing shed.
What about you? (All you lurkers out there who have just been reading – speak up & be heard!)
November 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm
My parents have that painting in their house!
My first job was as a soccer referee – 14 years old earning $48 on a Saturday. Those were the days…
November 27, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I sold icecreams on commission at the Simon & Garfunkle concert at what is now the Sydney Football Stadium in Feb 1983. I earnt $20 than sat down to watch the show. I was 12.
November 27, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Steve – so soccer reffing pays better than MTS, keeps you fitter than MTS, & if you get any grief or complaints, then unlike MTS – you just red card them!
Robyn – I think that will trump everyone!
I can feel another nostalgia post coming – first concert…
November 27, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Steve
I’ve captioned the picture
November 27, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I was a dog, in a manger.
Not really, but for some reason the idea popped into my head.
November 27, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Wow, they get ‘em out young in the bush.
What’s the going rate for a five-year-old broom boy??!!
I delayed my entrance into the workforce until I was more sure of the direction I wanted to take. First job was as a shelf-stacker in a car parts cash n carry. 100 pounds a week – honest pay for an honest week’s work.
November 27, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I auditioned for a play at Marion St Theatre in Killara. Instead of a part I got a job cleaning the toilets. It was pretty much the end of my dramatic career.
November 27, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Gordon
‘Your life as a dog’ sounds half sweedish?
November 27, 2008 at 10:06 pm
George
that is v funny… did they send you straight from audition…?
Conor
don’t remember the rate but it was all hands on deck come shearing season – hence the pay. THe normal jobs around the farm – pigs, chooks etc weren’t paid and were much mroe fun
November 28, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I would like to preface this comment by saying I have changed since my first job.
My 1st job was when I was 14 with a mate delivering papers to the local neighbourhood but he never helped. So I had all these papers to deliver and not enough time so I ditched a whole weeks worth of papers in the local bush! Needless to say the job didn’t last long and neither did the pay!
December 1, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Mine was a milkrun.
$15 a night – $16.50 actually because I knew both sides of the “run”.
Great for exercise, and for freaking out my mum by hanging off the back of a truck doing 80kph – obviously this was back in the ol’ days before OH&S took the fun out of everything…
December 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm
14 years old.
Kitchen hand in a retirement village – sat and sun from 4:30-7 once a fortnight, paid heaps! (and got to eat dinner). Paid for everything I needed through high school, and had an on/off job for uni hols, moving into personal care position. Great pay, lovely workplace, humbling environment.
December 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Jen
my mum had a job like that & once decided it would be more efficient to gather all the teeth into the one sink to wash – rather than do them individually. Worked really well until she had to put them back…
December 4, 2008 at 7:48 pm