Having a cracker of a chat with Koop about first jobs... Reckon most folks would have a good story about the first time they went to work...
I first worked at the Cheesecake shop when I was 15. 12 hours per week at $4.50 an hour :o
Used to get to take home the cakes that didn't work out. Remember one day taking home 15 busted up mud cakes in a big white bucket. Feel nauseous now just thinking about the big mud cake feast I had that night ;D
Haha, my first job is my current one, the MIGHTY WOK IN A BOX! ;D I swear Im the only non-Asian working at a wok-in-a-box shop ANYWHERE, I get stares from all the asian customers, but I get free lunch on Saturdays, so its all good :)
10 hours a week (6 on a Sunday Morning, 1 each weeknight except tonight) @ 9.70 an hour. Not as much as Id like, but Im working with my best mate :)
Mine is my current job at Foodworks Supermarket as mainly a Shelf Stacker but also a Checkout Chick. Ive realised that working at a supermarket is more complicated than most people think! I earn 12.40 on weekdays and 18 on weekends :P
Pizza delivery driver. 15 months later was running the store ;)
My first and current job working at a family friend's restaurant. Earn $15 an hour plus tips which is sweet. Also get a free meal and free drinks during the night.
My first proper job was reviewing Nintendo Wii games for the Herald Sun. Let's just say that the "I'm working!" line, when playing video games, was the greatest feeling ever.
Quote from: Spite on August 22, 2012, 12:50:22 AM
My first proper job was reviewing Nintendo Wii games for the Herald Sun. Let's just say that the "I'm working!" line, when playing video games, was the greatest feeling ever.
Nice!
Quote from: Spite on August 22, 2012, 12:50:22 AM
My first proper job was reviewing Nintendo Wii games for the Herald Sun. Let's just say that the "I'm working!" line, when playing video games, was the greatest feeling ever.
What a rockin job! Were they paying you to do that?
I work in wardrobe at Victoria's Secret catwalk shows
Its a tough gig helping Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio get changed. But someone has to do it ;D
No... im really factory labourer :'(
if you dont count the one day i worked in a facotry, my first job is my current job doing the stats at the football on the weekend. Not bad getting paid to watch football.
Trolley boy ;D
Quote from: Spinking on August 22, 2012, 01:01:48 AM
Quote from: Spite on August 22, 2012, 12:50:22 AM
My first proper job was reviewing Nintendo Wii games for the Herald Sun. Let's just say that the "I'm working!" line, when playing video games, was the greatest feeling ever.
What a rockin job! Were they paying you to do that?
I got all the gear and games free, my name in the Herald Sun every week under my review, but unfortunately I didn't get paid in cash. It didn't matter too much to me though, at that stage I was just spending my money on video games but with the job I had so many I could trade in some to get any game I wanted. Still have like 40+ wii games packed away in a box somewhere haha
I even sometimes had to sign a N.D.A because I was reviewing games that hadn't hit Australia yet :D
I knew the story line of Kung Fu Panda about 2-3 weeks before the movie premier ;)
I did it for just under 2 years I think, it also looks awesome on my resume :)
Started a post VCE job in a hospital laundry back in the mid 70's. First fortnightly pay cheque of $78.00 for 80 hrs work and remember thinking how good I was going... :o
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 21, 2012, 11:54:59 PM
Haha, my first job is my current one, the MIGHTY WOK IN A BOX! ;D I swear Im the only non-Asian working at a wok-in-a-box shop ANYWHERE, I get stares from all the asian customers, but I get free lunch on Saturdays, so its all good :)
10 hours a week (6 on a Sunday Morning, 1 each weeknight except tonight) @ 9.70 an hour. Not as much as Id like, but Im working with my best mate :)
Screw working a one hour shift that would suck.
My first job was nightfill at big w, good times.
First and current job
Working at Rivers haha
Quote from: JBs-Hawks on August 22, 2012, 11:33:36 AM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 21, 2012, 11:54:59 PM
Haha, my first job is my current one, the MIGHTY WOK IN A BOX! ;D I swear Im the only non-Asian working at a wok-in-a-box shop ANYWHERE, I get stares from all the asian customers, but I get free lunch on Saturdays, so its all good :)
10 hours a week (6 on a Sunday Morning, 1 each weeknight except tonight) @ 9.70 an hour. Not as much as Id like, but Im working with my best mate :)
Screw working a one hour shift that would suck.
My first job was nightfill at big w, good times.
Is it even legal to schedule people on for 1 hour shifts? I thought they had to work at least 2 hours per shift...
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 22, 2012, 12:14:59 PM
Quote from: JBs-Hawks on August 22, 2012, 11:33:36 AM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 21, 2012, 11:54:59 PM
Haha, my first job is my current one, the MIGHTY WOK IN A BOX! ;D I swear Im the only non-Asian working at a wok-in-a-box shop ANYWHERE, I get stares from all the asian customers, but I get free lunch on Saturdays, so its all good :)
10 hours a week (6 on a Sunday Morning, 1 each weeknight except tonight) @ 9.70 an hour. Not as much as Id like, but Im working with my best mate :)
Screw working a one hour shift that would suck.
My first job was nightfill at big w, good times.
Is it even legal to schedule people on for 1 hour shifts? I thought they had to work at least 2 hours per shift...
Meh, I dunno, but I work for Asians, so all the rules are bent. :P
In 1979 a Food Wholesale firm wanted to go computerized and got me for $60 a week. Back up disc's were as big as my cars wheels and the program ran off a magnetic spiel. My rent was $35, petrol for my Torana was $5 and I took $5 out on Saturday night and blew it on 20c beers!!!!
Working at a bakery....Then got fired a month later. :P
Probably for sticking my finger in some guys coffee. 8)
Hungry Jacks at like 14... :X
Quote from: Windigo on August 22, 2012, 05:22:34 PM
Working at a bakery....Then got fired a month later. :P
Probably for sticking my finger in some guys coffee. 8)
this remind you of anyone pyro? lolololol
my first jobs all happened at roughly the same time, where I worked for the NSW state election at like 20+/hr, worked as a dishpig/ waiter for 19/hr, then as a full time temporary receptionist for 16/hr
Subway when I was 13 :D
around 12 an hour
Apprentice Jockey, riding horses on the beach!
My first job was at the local fruit and veg shop in Keiraville (suburb of the Gong) packing potatoes and onions into 1,2 and 4 kilo bags in a tin shed twice a week 3 hrs a day. I think i stated @ $3.80 an hour and 4 years later left on $5 an hour
I still haven't got one. :-[
I'm waiting for Year 12 to finish (I've got like 2 months left roughly) and then I'll be looking.
While I'm on the topic, any recommendations?
Quote from: NigeyS on September 09, 2012, 03:24:12 PM
I still haven't got one. :-[
I'm waiting for Year 12 to finish (I've got like 2 months left roughly) and then I'll be looking.
While I'm on the topic, any recommendations?
Supermarkets, Restaurants, Pubs?
Good for getting your foot in the door.
1st job in 1977 was concreting-and in 2012 still concreting geez my back hurts
Quote from: Dudge on September 09, 2012, 09:03:25 PM
1st job in 1977 was concreting-and in 2012 still concreting geez my back hurts
When I saw your post I started to get back pain!!! Man when I see you guys come in and concrete gee you finish it quickly ...... obviously because of the concrete drying but gee it must be a tough gig.
Quote from: fidou on September 09, 2012, 10:11:11 PM
Quote from: Dudge on September 09, 2012, 09:03:25 PM
1st job in 1977 was concreting-and in 2012 still concreting geez my back hurts
When I saw your post I started to get back pain!!! Man when I see you guys come in and concrete gee you finish it quickly ...... obviously because of the concrete drying but gee it must be a tough gig.
Yeah mate, the actual concrete dictates our day. the exact same amount of meterage on the ground, from day to day depends on, no. 1 the batcher, no.2 the weather, no.3 the prep (ground base) . Some days we'll sit there and wait for the concrete to dry, and other days we can't stop for a pi$$. But yeah ,beleive me it's a physically hard gig. I'm now finding out it takes it's toll on the old body
My first job was cutting and stacking timber off cuts at a sawmill at the great rate of $1.25 an hour. (Remember my age).