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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Did you get to take home the seconds or out of date stock?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.
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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.
Typical boomers didn't have to work as young teens back in the day and now sitting on your property riches while the rest of us suffer.
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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.
Typical boomers didn't have to work as young teens back in the day and now sitting on your property riches while the rest of us suffer.
Probably truer than we would like.
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I've been working since I was knee high to a grasshopper, delivering local papers and circulars. Saved up enough to buy myself a fair amount of Lego, as well as my own TV to play Playstation so I didn't have to battle other family members when they wanted to watch their shows.
First actual job after that was check out bitch when I was 15 which I absolutely despised, it motivated me to actually work hard to ensure I didn't have to do a job like that for the rest of my life.
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My first job was mucking out our stables, but I just got our butler to do it. Father was pleased with my inate ability to delegate to lessors.
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Anyway, on topic, getting old is no fun. I’ve gone from having a phenomenal memory to remembering that I despise the Blues but not why. Things I can probably look forward to in the near future are being weak as piss, saggy skin, humongous sized ears, some form of cancer, dementia and a lingering death. Going on previous efforts I’ll probably never see the ABs win another World Cup. Thank fuck I’m not bald.
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Anyway, on topic, getting old is no fun. I’ve gone from having a phenomenal memory to remembering that I despise the Blues but not why. Things I can probably look forward to in the near future are being weak as piss, saggy skin, humongous sized ears, some form of cancer, dementia and a lingering death. Going on previous efforts I’ll probably never see the ABs win another World Cup. Thank fuck I’m not bald.
I now have more hair growing out my ears than on the top of my head
But in fairness baldness is no longer an issue, men finally figured out that the comb over didn't work and the shaved head is almost fashionable these days. -
