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@Crucial Yeah, That's a Morrisons. I've never darkened its door. @Hooroo is dead to me.
Is that better or worse the Lidl/Iceland?? On Par?
It was the only one I noticed until I actually walked to the station.
My Bro lives near there. Quite a cool little area that I was unaware of when I lived in Chislehurst
To be fair it's better than Lidl or Iceland. Iceland is just unspeakably sad.
I lived in Chigwell then Wanstead for many years. Essex gets a bad rap.
...and people have the gall to criticise the Hutt?
The talent that is in Essex by capita/total/factor of ten, far outweighs the Hutt dross.
That Essex girl look of big lips/eyelashes/fake tan/fake boobs and three inch long nails do it for you then?
Each to their own I guess.
Over Pencil thin lips, tats, ghostly white complex and Hutt saggers? Yes, yes on all counts
😆 not sure there is a Hutt “type” but that does describe some.
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@Hooroo Try the Kings Head in North Weald Bassett. Great pub. It is built out of ships timbers from the 1500s. Back in WW2 it was the local for the aircrews from North Weald, which is how I heard about it, as it was home to RNZAF 486 squadron for a while. A chappie at the airfield museum told us that the Luftwaffe used to strafe the nearby pub where the off duty airmen used to relax between sorties, so I had to take a look. If I recall correctly they flew Hurricanes and Typhoons.
The Duke of Wellington up by High Beech golf course is a tremendous little pub too.
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@Hooroo Try the Kings Head in North Weald Bassett. Great pub. It is built out of ships timbers from the 1500s. Back in WW2 it was the local for the aircrews from North Weald, which is how I heard about it, as it was home to RNZAF 486 squadron for a while. A chappie at the airfield museum told us that the Luftwaffe used to strafe the nearby pub where the off duty airmen used to relax between sorties, so I had to take a look. If I recall correctly they flew Hurricanes and Typhoons.
The Duke of Wellington up by High Beech golf course is a tremendous little pub too.
Bit of a commute from Matamata, but sure, I'm always keen to find a new beer place!
Next time I am over there though, I will certainly hunt them down
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@Crucial Yeah, That's a Morrisons. I've never darkened its door. @Hooroo is dead to me.
Is that better or worse the Lidl/Iceland?? On Par?
It was the only one I noticed until I actually walked to the station.
My Bro lives near there. Quite a cool little area that I was unaware of when I lived in Chislehurst
To be fair it's better than Lidl or Iceland. Iceland is just unspeakably sad.
I lived in Chigwell then Wanstead for many years. Essex gets a bad rap.
...and people have the gall to criticise the Hutt?
The talent that is in Essex by capita/total/factor of ten, far outweighs the Hutt dross.
That Essex girl look of big lips/eyelashes/fake tan/fake boobs and three inch long nails do it for you then?
Each to their own I guess.
I love me a good stereotype.
TBH though, Essex is as diverse as any place else, as you'd expect given its population is about the same size as Auckland's.
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The wife and I go grocery shopping at 7am in the morning, no kids, very few people and just isles of stocked food waiting for us. In and out real quick, seems to be how the wife likes it.
The wife always likes to comment that when she was a checkout chick she had to memorise thousands of codes and can still remember some of them. Chicks these days just touch a screen.
Also why the fuck do they let young boys operate a checkout, they are so fucken slow, I'm all for equal rights but it is rare to find a male that is any good.
What was your first job and what did it pay? I used to mow the lawns of the single ladies in my village, I think I got $2.50 a lawn.
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The wife and I go grocery shopping at 7am in the morning, no kids, very few people and just isles of stocked food waiting for us. In and out real quick, seems to be how the wife likes it.
The wife always likes to comment that when she was a checkout chick she had to memorise thousands of codes and can still remember some of them. Chicks these days just touch a screen.
Also why the fuck do they let young boys operate a checkout, they are so fucken slow, I'm all for equal rights but it is rare to find a male that is any good.
What was your first job and what did it pay? I used to mow the lawns of the single ladies in my village, I think I got $2.50 a lawn.
Lovely euphemism.
I would have done that for free at that age.
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What was your first job and what did it pay? I used to mow the lawns of the single ladies in my village, I think I got $2.50 a lawn.
Holiday job in between high school and uni so summer of 1977-78, survey draughtsman for the North Auckland Electric Power Board. $63 per week after tax full time. After I paid my board to my Mum I had $53 left. At the end of 3 months I had saved zero bucks for Uni.
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I used to work after school at the local Four Square on market days to unload the truck of all the fruit and veg and stack it in the chiller/storeroom. Wouldn't have a clue what I got paid. Probably about $20 a week max
Did you get to take home the seconds or out of date stock? I think there was a rule in the supermarket I was in that if it wasn't in saleable condition we got it for free. At easter time a few employees may have damaged a few eggs on purpose from memory. I think we got $3 bucks an hour or similar.
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I used to work after school at the local Four Square on market days to unload the truck of all the fruit and veg and stack it in the chiller/storeroom. Wouldn't have a clue what I got paid. Probably about $20 a week max
Did you get to take home the seconds or out of date stock? I think there was a rule in the supermarket I was in that if it wasn't in saleable condition we got it for free. At easter time a few employees may have damaged a few eggs on purpose from memory.
Hell no. This was one of those Chinese mafia shops. Tight as. If anything was damaged you got the blame and an earful, not a freebie.
They were hardly going to give me anything for free to take home considering my mother used to buy things in there. That would be really counterintuitive.
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What was your first job and what did it pay? I used to mow the lawns of the single ladies in my village, I think I got $2.50 a lawn.
Holiday job in between high school and uni so summer of 1977-78, survey draughtsman for the North Auckland Electric Power Board. $63 per week after tax full time. After I paid my board to my Mum I had $53 left. At the end of 3 months I had saved zero bucks for Uni.
You didn't have your first job until 17/18?
I used to be a cleaner at Dress for Less when I was 13-15, Would bike to the spacies parlour, then bike to the store, clean and then bike home again at 5:30pm. I hated it in winter as I had to cross the entire length of Hastings to get home.
My favourite kind of job though was my Dad used to give me $5 on a Sunday to get the Sunday News and Sunday Star Times on my BMX. I was allowed to spend the change on lollies ... the papers were about $1.50 for both and lollies were a cent or less then. No wonder I was such a chubster.
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Oh, and me and my mates used to 'bob a job' around the neighbourhood. Just knock on doors and ask if there were any odd jobs we could do. Pay what you think it is worth. If they were stingy you just didn't go back.
My grandmother used to give me and my sister a list of jobs like polishing her brass etc, think we worked a few hours and got 50 cents. We then walked for half an hour to the nearest dairy and got a lots of 1 and 2 cent lollies. "Ill have 1 of those, and 2 of those and 3 of those, lol" Come to think of it, it was genius of my Grandma to get jobs done and keep us busy for hours.
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I worked with my father in the school holidays in my first couple of years of high school. Often that meant working away in the Auckland or BOP regions or long drives to and from dairy factories. We'd always stop somewhere for a beer on the way home so drank at a few dodgy pubs in the Eastern BOP. I remember earning $3/hour.
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I used to be a cleaner at Dress for Less when I was 13-15, Would bike to the spacies parlour, then bike to the store, clean and then bike home again at 5:30pm. I hated it in winter as I had to cross the entire length of Hastings to get home.
Sounds very similar to me, I used to cycle 30 minutes after school into a Cafe in town, I would wash dishes and clean the floors and tables. Took me 2 hours and I got $5. But I did get to take home food which was a bonus. But at the end of the week I had $25 and I could get a small pack of smokes for $2.70
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I used to be a cleaner at Dress for Less when I was 13-15, Would bike to the spacies parlour, then bike to the store, clean and then bike home again at 5:30pm. I hated it in winter as I had to cross the entire length of Hastings to get home.
Sounds very similar to me, I used to cycle 30 minutes after school into a Cafe in town, I would wash dishes and clean the floors and tables. Took me 2 hours and I got $5. But I did get to take home food which was a bonus. But at the end of the week I had $25 and I could get a small pack of smokes for $2.70
I have no idea what I get paid - I know I didn't spend it on cancer sticks though - probably roughly the same though. When I stopped working for "School C" study I think my parents just gave me a similar amount of money so can't have been too much.
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@Machpants said in Aging:
Growing up on a farm means no chance to ever get part time money. Too far from everywhere and too much to do.
You didn't get paid per litre milked or how many bales of hay you picked up? Sounds like you should have been in a union.
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my first job was a paper run, delivering free papers and advertising material to houses, and where we lived was ficking hilly, I reckon a good month would be about $120...
For some of the advertising mailers, if we got a big lot on a friday, i'd have to do some on Saturday there were that many...or, I'd accidentally throw a whole heap down a steep banks where the chances of them being found were minimal.
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What was your first job and what did it pay? I used to mow the lawns of the single ladies in my village, I think I got $2.50 a lawn.
Holiday job in between high school and uni so summer of 1977-78, survey draughtsman for the North Auckland Electric Power Board. $63 per week after tax full time. After I paid my board to my Mum I had $53 left. At the end of 3 months I had saved zero bucks for Uni.
You didn't have your first job until 17/18?
- Born in 61, so definitely a Boomer. if you mean no job until after I left school, yep, guilty.
