What was your first ever job?
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Topic: What was your first ever job?
Posted By: Maya
Subject: What was your first ever job?
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:36pm
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Mona (DSD) wants to get a job at Countdown, and it got Willie and I reminiscing about our first jobs.
His was during the school holidays cleaning up at the forestry where his Dad worked for $1 an hour. Mine was a local paper run at $3 a week. Then I worked at New World for $5.15 an hour. What was yours? -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: thunderwolves
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:37pm
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I did the paper run thing when I was about 11, my first real job would have been when I was 15 or so, I worked in a rest home as their evening cleaner...
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:41pm
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I worked for my mothers company helping out in the office I think I got something like $8 an hour. That was in the school holidays etc. My first proper job was a nanny in Baltimore Maryland, I was 17, I looked after a 4, 5 and 3mth old I got $110 a week. It was a great job, I got to travel around the East Coast of the States. Then I moved to Kansas City and did housesitting for 3 months. When I got home I was nearly 19 and I worked at Quality Inn Rosepark in Parnell, I worked as a housemaid and also helped with conferences. I got $12 an hour. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:41pm
Office junior in a law firm for $5 per hour. I got paid fortnightly and did 2 hours a day so by my calculations I was to get a full $100 every fortnight!!!!!!! Ah those were the days lol. And then I found out about PAYE   ------------- |
Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:41pm
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I grew and sold parsley to local greengrocer for $1.50 a bunch. Well actually dad grew it and i sold it, I was about 10.
I served at a fish and chip shop. Think I got about $5 an hour, I was 14. When I was 16 I stared working at Kmart as a check out chick. -------------   
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:43pm
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Cleaner for my grandparents and then working in Pharmacy 277 + front desk at a motel. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:44pm
| Working on the farm during summer doing hay. $20 an hour cash in the hand .. I wish I could do that again! |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:44pm
| Worked at a dairy/Lotto outlet when I was in high school. |
Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:44pm
My first job started when I was 8, working for my dad cleaning his factory, sweeping it up for .50c! I did that once a week. .50c was heaps back then (1988), I could get a HUGE bag of lollies!!
Then I upgraded to a paperun once a week, but can't remember how much I got paid as my sister & I shared the run so split the earnings. It wasn't much though. But what I would call my first PROPER job, was at Countdown, Bayfair! As a checkout chick when I was 15, working after school and on Saturdays. Got paid something like $6 something an hour.... I think. ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:47pm
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Foodtown Deli -------------  
 
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:51pm
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Toyworld!
I used to put the bicycles together, stock the shelves and do the till! That was when I was 15 i think ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:51pm
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When I was about 10 I worked for my dad in the holidays doing car inspections.. I'd help check the lights, indicators and turn the car over (wouldn't start) so dad could do the compression check and I got $1 per car and he did 7 cars per day so I got a good haul in a short period
When I was 13 I did a paper and leaflet run and earned about $20 per fortnight At 15 I worked at Kids N Action (anyone remember them?) as a Party 'Consultant' LOL and got about $7 per hour -------------  
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:52pm
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Excluding occasionally helping my mum and dad at their businesses my first job was when I was 17, I worked for NZ Natural Icecream as the weekend supervisor. I don't have a clue what I was paid.. about $7.50/$8.00ish. -------------  
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:52pm
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Paper round, then I worked for my parents in their shop (if sleeping off a hangover in the stock room every saturday morning counts as working). First real job though was working in a change booth at an amusement arcade. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:57pm
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I used to do stuff around the farm like grubbing thistles in the holidays, or helping dad with the shearing. But first proper job was working in a cafe from the age of 13 - got $4.75/hr to start with. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: emachan
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:05pm
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I used to do lots of babysitting when I was younger for friends of the family - loved it! Plus it was about $20 a night which was pretty good for just sitting down watchin TV!
I also worked once a week at our soccer clubrooms cooking the hot chips and running the food bar selling lollies etc. My first 'proper' job was at Big Fresh/Woolworths, where I worked for under a year and moved to McDonalds where I got paid way more than I was getting at Big Fresh at the time! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD#1 Sept 08 DD#2 Oct 09 |
Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:25pm
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Milking cows, can't remember when my parents starting paying me though?!
Waitressing, then more farm work.  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:28pm
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I was a McDonalds girl. Started in 1997 and was getting 8.80 an hour - that was a lot for someone my age at the time. I was 16 when I first strated there. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:03pm
| Delivery the Herald when I was 12 got a huge $27 a week that was a lot of money in 1982. Got first adult job when I turned 15 and became a packer at Woolworths St Lukes on a whole $3 an hour. There was no Sunday trading back then only worked late night Thurs and Sat. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:06pm
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I did the local paper delivery thing too, and then moved on up to babysitting for $5 an hour. I was 15 and thought my $20 a week was SO much money! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:13pm
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Hey Becks did you work in the McDs in the square? I did lots of babysitting, for about $20 a night, used to think it was easy cash back then! I used to clean the local diary when I was 14 and think I got about $1.50 an hour cash in hand. Used to hate it - the guy was a sleaze and it was a really grubby job!!
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Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:15pm
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I worked at Foodtown back in the day when they only had one late night and were only open until 12 on Saturday morning....god I'm soooo old. I used to pack the bags at the check out ( they don't have separate people for that now!!!).
Then moved into the bakery. That was great fun I was there by myself in the afternoon from 4pm and all the butchers would come and pinch the biscuits. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:23pm
| LOL Shaz, I remember those days, I was a checkout chick at Foodtown St Lukes until I got a full time job. I remember when Sunday trading started and everyone fought over those shifts cause you got paid double time. |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:25pm
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haha , ahh my first job was babysitting i guess, then i was a BK girl for about two weeks.
When people went through drive through we had two buttons, one that we could talk to the customer making the order ,and one they couldnt hear us on while we told the other staff etc what they wanted. One night i pressed the wrong button and the lady drove up to the window looking verrrrry unimpressed, dont blame her ,she had just heard me say "hurry up and order you stupid cow " ....yeah , didnt last much longer after that ...
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:26pm
Bakery assistant at Foodtown Hunters Plaza I think I got $5.25 an hour  ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:35pm
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My first job was going to the shop getting the paper for our elderly neighbour everyday after school and she paid me $1.50 per week and then when I was a teen I babysat for a friend of the family for $20 per night. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:36pm
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Nope Sam I was a Feilding girl, left soon after Paddy brought Feilding - couldn't stand him or who he beought over to manage our store. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:38pm
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I was a waitress at Pizza Hut (the red roof restaurant before it was shut down) ...I was on $5.60 an hour and 15 at the time. Absolutely loved it and stayed there for two years part-time and then moved onto Hell Pizza ....
Fast food places are skanky though, both pizza places were as bad as each other and the girls were catty as hell. Made a few really good friends though. ------------- Single Mum to a darling wee boy of 3 years :) |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:38pm
Pamphlet run for my Mums work- we got paid next to nothing! I loved it though- felt so grown up  I did it with my friend and we were 12. My first proper job was babysitting $3.20 per hour minimum wage at the time and I was taxed on top of it too!  ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:41pm
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I did the paper run thing...
First proper part time job though was working at Craig Adair Cycles when I was 17. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:45pm
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Mickey D's for me too.
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:49pm
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babysitting was my pay packet in teenage years for $10 a night.
Then when I was 17 I went to Uk and worked in a hairdressers for 35 pounds a weeks - rip off - so went and worked in a factory sewing mens dress trousers for British airways and marks and spencers for 135 pounds a week. doesn;t seem much but back then for me to funded my partying ways ------------- Ann 
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Posted By: gemsmum
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:07am
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Oooh, another paper round girl here. I was 12 and got paid next to nothing. I delivered the Auckland Star (anyone remember it???) and my sister delivered the Herald. She also got the cushy job going into the Officers Mess on the Whenuapai Airforce Base and sitting selling Heralds to the officers coming in for breakfast.
I also did lots of babysitting - I was only 13 (eeek - wouldn't leave my kids with a 13 year old!! ). Then I worked in the local dairy. When I was 16 they went away for a week during the school hols and left me in charge - I thought I was sooo grown up, but now I realise it was cos they only had to pay me minimum wage while their adult workers were better paid.
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:14am
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delivery person here too:) then maccas at 16 (later on did PH,BK and Rattrays as well) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: AngieBabe
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:30am
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Hehe, another paper round here... a once a week jobbie delivering the "Weekender" around Hamilton - can't remember how much it paid exactly but recall thinking it wasn't enough, I hated it! Then I moved on to babysitting for $20 a night and as a packer , then deli-assistant then the bigtime check-out chick at New World Heaphy Terrace. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:44am
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I worked at price chopper lol. $7.13 an hour ppfffft what crap money! I thought it was heaps then, i was 14 ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 9:22am
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I worked at Muffin Break for $5 an hour before tax. I was about 16-17, I think.
Awful early starts, no scheduled breaks and no rostered finish time! My start time was about 7am, and I could be working right up until 4pm. I told my boss I thought I was worth more than $5 per hour, and she said she'd consider giving me a payrise IF I got faster at putting the garnishes on top of the muffins. I never did get a payrise, and I think I quit shortly after that!
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 9:26am
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I worked at Wendys Supa Sundaes when I was 15. I LOVED it. Such a cool job. I can't remember my exact pay but after tax I got paid $19.27 or something for working 4 hours a week. Then I did 27 hours one week and got a pay of something like $120 and I was stoked! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 9:26am
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Kitchen hand. I was getting $5 p/hr & was 14 at the time ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 9:31am
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I used to babysit every Wednesday and Saturday night for the same family from age 14-16. $100 per week.
I also did 90mins every day after school and every saturday 8:30-2:30 in a bakery @ $6 per hour initially. Went up to $15 per hour by the time I left at 19 (where I was working semi-full time while studying). ------------- 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 10:38am
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant in Levin, 3 or 4 nights a week, getting about $9 an hour which was fantastic in 1991!
Becks - I used to go out with one of Paddy's sons for about 4 years! |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 11:16am
| I worked as a Fuel Transfer Technician (aka pump girl) for a small BP petrol station, got $6.25ph, worked about 18 hours a weekend and had a tab which meant a lot of my pay went on paying that....then it was to New World as a bakery assistant for $5.41ph... |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 12:21pm
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My first job was at Pak n Save at delikitchen (I use to smell like ham after that...)
I use to get $7.50 and hour...I think!! This was in 1996?! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 12:29pm
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my frist job was babysitter and that was free as it was my brothers and sisters then when i left school i went taxi depacthing that was 10 per hour ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Rachel75
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 12:45pm
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I had a paper run then worked at Hannahs for $5 p/h
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Posted By: almostthere
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:30pm
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My first ever job was cleaning a church for $20.
Then in an ice cream parlour, i got $6 an hour! It was great fun!!! ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2128f6"> 
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Posted By: MorgansMum
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:32pm
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Mine was at pokeno takeaways making the HUGE icecreams that they sell then later on cooking the fish and chips I think I got around $7.00 per hour ------------- Morgan, Libby http://www.TickerFactory.com/"> 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:49pm
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I was a letter-stuffer for $5 an hour (I was 10 so it was pretty good, and not taxed so even better!), sorted archived files out for $10 an hour (involved working in a shed covered in pigeon poo ) all for the same company I now work for in the evenings (better job and better pay though lol!)
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 2:38pm
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I worked at a bakehouse, I think it was about $3 something an hour (in 1989). Kaye Kake Kitchen, my dad worked there and hooked me up. I worked there fulltime weh I left school, I think I was on about $5 something an hour? ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 3:53pm
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my first job was in nelson at an ice cream parlour....think i got about $5.50/hr and ALOT of free icecreams ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: KABJ99
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:45pm
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My first job was at 7 years old working in my parents bookshop on a Saturday morning. Think I got $2 for the day and the rest ($10.00) was put in a special jar for holidays, special trips, buying gifts for peoples birthdays, christmas etc. Was always great fun at holiday times or Christmas as Mum would give you the money and you got to go shopping and had to work out what you were going to buy people for christmas etc or spend your money on when holiday .
Next main job was berry picking from the summer I was 10. Earn't about $10.00 on the first day and my big sister and i went and got our ears pierced with it. Then from 12 had a phamplet delivery run and used this money to buy and keep a pony. Used to get up at 5am and do my phamplet run, see to my pony, go to school (or netball on the weekend), and then spend all of the rest of my free time with my pony. Definitely taught my older sister and the value of money and budgeting and working for what you want. (Unfortunately my parents slipped up when it came to my younger sister who expects everything to be handed to her on a plate). Edited as spelling is terrible today ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:57pm
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I worked at the Agrodome as a "stage girl" which in reality was picking up sheep crap and dealing with some seriously stubborn rams for 14 hour shifts for $6.50 an hour
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 6:39pm
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I think my first "real" job would have been at BK, lasted maybe four months or so until my granddad died. After that I worked at Paper Plus, which rocked! Did a bit of babysitting on and off though too, right through high school and uni. ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 11:56pm
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Lucky you Claire. I really disliked Paddy, he just thought of us in Feilding as money and didn't actually care about us. We did make things a bit difficult for him thou ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
.Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 29 May 2008 at 10:06am
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Yeah lucky me. He was a di*k, can't believe I went out with him for so long!
And I pretty much felt the same as you do about Paddy Without the just being money bit though.
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 29 May 2008 at 10:21am
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i took horse treks on the weekends & holidays & got $7.00ph and worked at bigfresh 3 afternoons a week i think thaT was $7.20
and i babysitted for ALL the neighbours too, and with the price of childcare theese days they got a dam good bargan LOL
one of my mates worked for her dads company and she used to walk along the highway between rotorua and taupo and wipe down the reflective match stick things on the side of the road, she got paid $12.00ph which in 96-99 was lots, we all wanted to do it lol ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: MelanieAndBree
Date Posted: 29 May 2008 at 10:34am
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I worked at new world in the deli for $6.30 an hour. Fun times. ------------- Melanie. Mum to Briahna Robyn, 3yrs |