What age were you when you first......

[A Mum]

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[hearts on fire]

It's all about stepping stones HOF.

Yes i understand i won't be able to get something i like and the pay will be sh1t but i still want something that is fun and will help me get a better job.

I'll get you a job washing the jockstraps at Collingwood HOF It will be fun and you can move up to water boy

I will never get a job at Collingwood, they are too much of a higher class, they wouldn't allow the scum like me to touch their beloved jockstraps.

[hearts on fire]

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[A Mum]

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I'm just being

I was counting you in HOF... I knew after Jimmy posted that you would post !!!

[JK]

It's all about stepping stones HOF.

Yes i understand i won't be able to get something i like and the pay will be sh1t but i still want something that is fun and will help me get a better job.

I'll get you a job washing the jockstraps at Collingwood HOF It will be fun and you can move up to water boy

I will never get a job at Collingwood, they are too much of a higher class, they wouldn't allow the scum like me to touch their beloved jockstraps.

Might get to touch a few at the Spearmint Rhino though

[hearts on fire]

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I'm just being

I was couting you in HOF... I knew after Jimmy posted that you would post !!!

i am lightning quick on the keyboard.

[Jimmy_041]

It's all about stepping stones HOF.

Yes i understand i won't be able to get something i like and the pay will be sh1t but i still want something that is fun and will help me get a better job.

I'll get you a job washing the jockstraps at Collingwood HOF It will be fun and you can move up to water boy

I will never get a job at Collingwood, they are too much of a higher class, they wouldn't allow the scum like me to touch their beloved jockstraps.

That was lucky - I was really going to drop you off at Salisbury and let you work your way up from there

[JK]

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I'm just being

I was couting you in HOF... I knew after Jimmy posted that you would post !!!

i am lightning quick on the keyboard.

Enjoy it mate, in 30 years time you'll say "I am lightning quick thats why Im back on the keyboard"

[Pseudo]

Was 14 when I landed my first job pushing trolleys around in the carpark at Marion Shops. In retrospect that job sucked. Supermarket management was full of @rseholes who were nobodies in all facets of their pitiful lives and would seek to give their petty existences meaning by lording it over the menial workers. Not that I realised this at the time. I was as happy as a pig in mud, I was getting four whole dollars an hour - and an extra dollar in penalties on weekends!

That first job lasted 7 months. In between that point and graduation from Uni, I made money via:
- various occasional stocktaking work
- selling my body to science. Mostly psychology research projects.
- grilling burgers at HJ's. That was an educational experience, for reasons which were completely tangential to the actual work.
- high school maths tuition
- Uni level computer science tuition. Had 3 regular gigs with proper employers over a 2 year period.

Got my first proper job after graduation at age 20. Began as a programmer, after some years ended up as a research worker.

[devilsadvocate]

Quit last year to be a stay at home dad. Have been working casual for Travelex the past 4 months......

Oh you lucky bastard. I need your missus to have a chat to my missus and convince her to let me be a stay at home dad when she pops one out.

[devilsadvocate]

I would always suggest supermarkets to fast food but each to their own

Yes, when i get my first job, i will NEVER work in a fast food place.

Supermarkets are not bad, it's pretty ideal for me because i live down the road from one.

I will just wait and see what happens.

It depends what you want to do later in life.

I started at 14 picking fruit.
I worked in a supermarket for 6 years while at school and university, which gave me great management experience (after 4 years) and references on my CV.

I wouldn't write off the fast food joints. I know it probably sucks working there when you start out, but they'll teach you the worlds best business systems. I'm currently researching and developing a business plan for an outlet that will require a flawless, efficient service system to be successful. Therefore, the supermarket experience can only really be applied to the ordering and inventory tracking side of my plan. However, if I'd had Maccas, HJ, KFC type experience, I'd have learned the worlds greatest fast food business system straight up, without now having to hang around these types of place looking like a dodgy stalker and take pics of the keys aspects of their system.

Jeez I'm a loser.

[Big Phil]

Got my first job at 16 working at the local Petrol Station for a couple of years while finishing High School.

Didn't get into the Uni course I wanted so I bummed around for 6 months then got a job doing gardening and maintenace for 6 months.

Then worked as a Fruit and Veg Assistant at Woolies Elizabeth before progressing to Assistant Produce Manager for a couple of years.

Then got an Admin Traineeship with an Aluminium Wholesaler called Ullrich Aluminium spending 7 years there working my way up to Sales Rep.

Am now an Account Manager for another Aluminium wholesaler and been so for the last 18 months but really wanting a change in career at the moment.

Would love to get into the Media full time or be a Sports Journalist but can't afford to do it financially or time wise in terms of study.

[bayman]

hof, if your up to it (this goes to any young blokes out there) i'd be looking at the mining industry & heading north or west & while it'd be a hard, tough job you could IF SENSIBLE go well on your way to setting yourself up for life

[bayman]

1, tobbaconist
2, drycleaner
3, still waiting to retire (that'll happen when there is no more school fees to worry about )

[hearts on fire]

hof, if your up to it (this goes to any young blokes out there) i'd be looking at the mining industry & heading north or west & while it'd be a hard, tough job you could IF SENSIBLE go well on your way to setting yourself up for life

yes, i have heard a bit from other people about the mining industry, but what i don't know is, how do you get into it? and this may sound like a dumb question, but what work do you do up there? obviously mining but what type of mining and that. By the sounds of things, it's pretty tough work, but the more you do it, the more you would be able to cope. Money is the main thing, if the money is good, i would have the hunger for it.

[JAS]

HoF, this is the link to the Wiki page on mining in Australia. You might find that some of the links to individual mining areas etc will give you some of the mining company websites and that might give you the info on the work involved and how to get into it. If nothing else it's a starting point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia

Regards
JAS

[rogernumber10]

15 years old, weekend nights working as a glass boy in a pub. Good money for a teenager and a great way to meet drunken 18-19 year old girls, albeit that I had no idea what to do with a drunken woman coming on to a teenager.
Uni - night cleaner at a school. Four hours of vacuuming. Mind numbing but very good pay as it paid for everything and left spending money still. Wish they had ipods back then though to fill in the time.

[bayman]

hof, if your up to it (this goes to any young blokes out there) i'd be looking at the mining industry & heading north or west & while it'd be a hard, tough job you could IF SENSIBLE go well on your way to setting yourself up for life

yes, i have heard a bit from other people about the mining industry, but what i don't know is, how do you get into it? and this may sound like a dumb question, but what work do you do up there? obviously mining but what type of mining and that. By the sounds of things, it's pretty tough work, but the more you do it, the more you would be able to cope. Money is the main thing, if the money is good, i would have the hunger for it.

i don't really know but i know there are different type of jobs up there including riggers, truck/cranes

how to get into it, this is only a suggestion but look it up on the net & go from there, i do know a bloke who has worked up there (both roxby & at kalgoorlie & some other place in western aust) i'll ask him tomorrow & let you know tomorrow night , the money is huge, if i was 20-25 years younger i'd be doing it

[Lunchcutter]

I worked as a casual cleaner with my ma and pa's commercial cleaning company from 12 years of age, also started at the local foodland from 15 and full time office/admin/local government from 18 .. and now coming 40 so 20 years of hard slog behind me and hopefully 20 years ahead!

[hearts on fire]

HoF, this is the link to the Wiki page on mining in Australia. You might find that some of the links to individual mining areas etc will give you some of the mining company websites and that might give you the info on the work involved and how to get into it. If nothing else it's a starting point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia

Regards
JAS

Thanks, this stuff could really come in handy, because school starts getting a bit more serious next year and i want to start having an idea of what i want to do and that.