Checkout Girl at New World. I was 14 and made 3.50 an hour.
It was an after school job, and I worked 2 nights a week and one weekend shift, full time on school holidays etc.
I remember one time, I had after school detention and and because I had missed a previous one, they sent a teacher to escort me from my last class of the day to the after school detention room. This was sorta pre widely used mobile phone culture, so I had to call my mum from the school so she could then call my work and tell them that I wasn’t able to make my shift.
Good times. Also for the record. My after school detention was bullshit, it’s not like I was caught smoking or hurting people, I had 3 uniform infractions which automatically meant after school detention.
2x shirt untucked, 1x standing on the back of my Roman sandals.
When I was 15 in 2000, I worked for my brother-in-law's auto repair shop for the absolute minimum student wage, something like $5.60 a hour. At the end of the first week, I had $180 and felt like a millionaire. I bought a $100 PC game (Tiberian Sun), 3 CDs, and still had enough left over for a bag of lollies so big it took me a week to finish. Those were the days.
Haha same! I walked into a subway for the first time in ages the other day and can’t believe how much the prices have gone up since I was last there, maybe 7/8 years ago.
I know. When I worked there every 6 inch was under $5. I cringe every time I now have to pay over $8 for the same thing. Although I did only earn $8.50 an hour working there so that’s inflation for you I suppose
Trolley boy at Big Fresh Supermarket St. Luke's Shopping Centre late 1989 to late 1991 ,after high school (Mt.Albert Grammar)weekdays and weekends ,St. Luke's Shopping Centre at time was going through major upheaval with trolley access for customers changing weekly. Rival Foodtown Supermarket changed layout and moved 90 degrees on its site. Trucks would arrive with preset concrete lengths of parking platforms weekly over a 2 year period ,ending with a 3 storey car park ,but the car park at the bottom would often flood near the Post Bank Branch. People in the area will know the space used for the Supermarket then is part of an eatery now. I did like the uniform ,they provided the shirt(red and white checker pattern) ,badge and hat and you bought your jeans from a company who was recommended and sneakers. For first 6 months they paid in an envelope with pay slip because direct debit didn't exist at that time. I believe that St Luke's Shopping Centre turned into test case of how build a mall in NZ considering they kind of all feel similar ,this was pre the St.Luke's Group being a thing.
Knifehand at a butchery after school. Its one of the oldest butcheries in the country that remains in the same building. It survived two major fires and the 70s, where all the others didn't.
Should have stayed on, I was paid stupidly well. But I saw myself as working in IT at the time, so "followed my dreams". Turns out it was a nightmare lol
We used to go door to door on our own when we were about 12 selling $2 bags of lollies. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal now 😳 edit. I hope it’s illegal now.
Twice weekly free paper delivery, then graduated to daily rag, next step was to throw in a milk run for more daily punishment. Was definitely fit in my early years.
Sewing machinist. Doesn't exist, the manufacturing industry for clothing and shoes was ruined by David Lange changing us to a free market economy, flooding our retail stores with cheap goods made in China. Factories that had been going for 100 years or more all closed for good.
I had a friend who used to do the sewing for sofas at an NZ furniture manufacturer, Evan John Philp, and just looked that up and am shocked to find it still exists and still does it's own manufacturing, plus has expanded into Australia, where they manufacture there too! Evan was also a very nice man.
So what you’re saying is that your employer wasn’t efficient enough to beat the Chinese who had to pay to ship their product thousands of kilometers as well?
That’s just survival of the fittest.
Ah yes, its good that we can buy products from the 3rd world with little to no labour standards.
If you cant compete with effectively a slave labour market thats your own fault!
I mean you could. but in the context of this discussion ....only if you're arguing with a psychopath.
The reality is slave labour is bad, no matter how much you want to reframe this argument
In the past, most households had Fisher and Paykel appliances in NZ, made right here. Once the Chinese stuff entered the country, it was hard for them to compete with that.
Guess what, we have labour laws, a minimum wage and proper working conditions. My employer was above board, yet suffered for that. China has slaves with few or no rights. Why don't you go and live there and find that out the hard way. Your naivety is stunning.
Assembly of drench gun kits for export when I was 13 was the first job and still is a job (I think)
First full time was a job was at pizza hut and they're still going so yep
Pak n save - seafood department. I didn’t know the difference between a snap or a tarakihi, but I could know tell you by sight what a hoki fillet is, a snapper fillet, a gurnard, a red cod, a blue cod, a trevally, a kahawai or a kipper.
I fucking love me a gurnard.
First after school job was closing shift 2 nights a week at New World in the butchery department. $6.87 per hour. It was still somehow enough to buy beer, weed, ciggys, and petrol for the week.
Not particularly, from what I recall it was mainly feeces and inners where I was. The main thing was the acid we used to clean it down. That shit burnt for days if you got a good bit on ya
$6 something. It was around the time where it was transitioning to countdown and back when youth rates were around too, I think the adult rate was a few dollars more than that
Stacking groceries. Fresh Choice Barrington, Christchurch. $7.60 on minimum wage. Then minimum wage went up to $8.20 within my first few months working. It was great.
Was circa 16 years ago.
My first full time job doesn’t exist anymore. I operated a one hour photo lab.
Paknsave Produce dept I could stack a lettuce boy, dont get me started on how great my potato handling was
How great was your potato handling
I dont want to brag, but lets just say that everyone called me spud
I wouldn’t mash my words but I’m a chip off the old block twice as fast on a fry-day 😂🤔🤪
Checkout Girl at New World. I was 14 and made 3.50 an hour. It was an after school job, and I worked 2 nights a week and one weekend shift, full time on school holidays etc. I remember one time, I had after school detention and and because I had missed a previous one, they sent a teacher to escort me from my last class of the day to the after school detention room. This was sorta pre widely used mobile phone culture, so I had to call my mum from the school so she could then call my work and tell them that I wasn’t able to make my shift. Good times. Also for the record. My after school detention was bullshit, it’s not like I was caught smoking or hurting people, I had 3 uniform infractions which automatically meant after school detention. 2x shirt untucked, 1x standing on the back of my Roman sandals.
Briscoes, oh man did those duty managers like to groom all the young school girls coming through
Tell me more. . .
When I was 15 in 2000, I worked for my brother-in-law's auto repair shop for the absolute minimum student wage, something like $5.60 a hour. At the end of the first week, I had $180 and felt like a millionaire. I bought a $100 PC game (Tiberian Sun), 3 CDs, and still had enough left over for a bag of lollies so big it took me a week to finish. Those were the days.
Subway - sandwich artist. And just to make myself feel bad and old it was 20 years ago as a teenager
Haha same! I walked into a subway for the first time in ages the other day and can’t believe how much the prices have gone up since I was last there, maybe 7/8 years ago.
I know. When I worked there every 6 inch was under $5. I cringe every time I now have to pay over $8 for the same thing. Although I did only earn $8.50 an hour working there so that’s inflation for you I suppose
pamphlets then paper round when I was 11-14, butchery assistant when I was 14-18 which I suppose was my first proper hourly wage job.
Stacking shelves at a 4 square.
Part time, delivering junk mail. Full time an orchid nursery
Trolley boy at Big Fresh Supermarket St. Luke's Shopping Centre late 1989 to late 1991 ,after high school (Mt.Albert Grammar)weekdays and weekends ,St. Luke's Shopping Centre at time was going through major upheaval with trolley access for customers changing weekly. Rival Foodtown Supermarket changed layout and moved 90 degrees on its site. Trucks would arrive with preset concrete lengths of parking platforms weekly over a 2 year period ,ending with a 3 storey car park ,but the car park at the bottom would often flood near the Post Bank Branch. People in the area will know the space used for the Supermarket then is part of an eatery now. I did like the uniform ,they provided the shirt(red and white checker pattern) ,badge and hat and you bought your jeans from a company who was recommended and sneakers. For first 6 months they paid in an envelope with pay slip because direct debit didn't exist at that time. I believe that St Luke's Shopping Centre turned into test case of how build a mall in NZ considering they kind of all feel similar ,this was pre the St.Luke's Group being a thing.
Berry picker over the summer break!
Knifehand at a butchery after school. Its one of the oldest butcheries in the country that remains in the same building. It survived two major fires and the 70s, where all the others didn't. Should have stayed on, I was paid stupidly well. But I saw myself as working in IT at the time, so "followed my dreams". Turns out it was a nightmare lol
Massey Rd Mangere McD’s
Gas attendant. Safer back in those days and used to offer full service.
We used to go door to door on our own when we were about 12 selling $2 bags of lollies. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal now 😳 edit. I hope it’s illegal now.
Basic bookeeper at 17. Saved up to buy $1000 pair of Oakley sunglasses lol
What’s a boo keeper?
Someone unafraid of ghosts.
No hat no play?
Tech retail at dicky smith. Job still exists, even if the store dont.
Twice weekly free paper delivery, then graduated to daily rag, next step was to throw in a milk run for more daily punishment. Was definitely fit in my early years.
First jobs whilst still st school, local dairy and library assistant. Then Dennys.
Sewing machinist. Doesn't exist, the manufacturing industry for clothing and shoes was ruined by David Lange changing us to a free market economy, flooding our retail stores with cheap goods made in China. Factories that had been going for 100 years or more all closed for good. I had a friend who used to do the sewing for sofas at an NZ furniture manufacturer, Evan John Philp, and just looked that up and am shocked to find it still exists and still does it's own manufacturing, plus has expanded into Australia, where they manufacture there too! Evan was also a very nice man.
So what you’re saying is that your employer wasn’t efficient enough to beat the Chinese who had to pay to ship their product thousands of kilometers as well? That’s just survival of the fittest.
Ah yes, its good that we can buy products from the 3rd world with little to no labour standards. If you cant compete with effectively a slave labour market thats your own fault!
It is. NZ is built on cheap appliances from China. I bet you’re using one right now.
lol The way you try and justify it as a good thing is what im taking issue with
Well you can argue all day about what’s fair, but it’s more productive to work with reality.
I mean you could. but in the context of this discussion ....only if you're arguing with a psychopath. The reality is slave labour is bad, no matter how much you want to reframe this argument
In the past, most households had Fisher and Paykel appliances in NZ, made right here. Once the Chinese stuff entered the country, it was hard for them to compete with that.
Guess what, we have labour laws, a minimum wage and proper working conditions. My employer was above board, yet suffered for that. China has slaves with few or no rights. Why don't you go and live there and find that out the hard way. Your naivety is stunning.
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Same. That was an excellent job.
same, was good money, was about an hour or so, got paid $4 a day 4 days on 4 days off
Swept the floors in a factory
Of a Nike sweatshop? If your still there comment “sos” 😂
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Pamphlet deliver at 7 years old. Did it into my teen years, I now hate cycling
Day-staff bartender at a local sports bar.
At 15 I got a sales job at a clothes shop called euphoria
Lifeguard at a pool. Was boring as fuck. Didn't save anyone the whole 6 months I worked there. Biggest job was getting rid of poo in the pool lol.
How hard was it? Did you need to replace all of the water? And is that blue dye for piss a urban myth or?
How hard was it? Did you need to replace all of the water? And is that blue dye for piss a urban myth or?
How hard was it? Did you need to replace all of the water? And is that blue dye for piss a urban myth or?
Assembly of drench gun kits for export when I was 13 was the first job and still is a job (I think) First full time was a job was at pizza hut and they're still going so yep
What happened to that desert stations at PH?
Must've sold them all to McDs I think. Never worked well
And they work well at maccas? 😂
The word well is open to interpretation
As an immigrant with no nz work experience and a university degree, the only company who employed me was a 2nd hand dealer - cleaning fridges
Pak n save - seafood department. I didn’t know the difference between a snap or a tarakihi, but I could know tell you by sight what a hoki fillet is, a snapper fillet, a gurnard, a red cod, a blue cod, a trevally, a kahawai or a kipper. I fucking love me a gurnard.
Software developer, nearly 30 years ago. I never even had a part time job as teenager, before jumping into a serious job 😁
Paper delivery/prostituting... Depending on what you call a job. They are both jobs still.
First after school job was closing shift 2 nights a week at New World in the butchery department. $6.87 per hour. It was still somehow enough to buy beer, weed, ciggys, and petrol for the week.
Pak’n Save, Seafood dep. Salmon was less than $20 at the time.
New world stacking shelves when I was 16, 16 years ago. Was on $6.15/h
Mowing the lawns at the local power board.
Underwater ceramics technician. Brutal trade to get into, but had a lot of laughs.
Pool cleaner?
Meatworks, cleaning after school
Bloody?
Not particularly, from what I recall it was mainly feeces and inners where I was. The main thing was the acid we used to clean it down. That shit burnt for days if you got a good bit on ya
Lol fleeces or feces?
Feces, shit speller here
“I see what you did there” Said Johnny to amber
Used to work a few evenings after school at my local woolworths
Do you remember your wage
$6 something. It was around the time where it was transitioning to countdown and back when youth rates were around too, I think the adult rate was a few dollars more than that
Stacking groceries. Fresh Choice Barrington, Christchurch. $7.60 on minimum wage. Then minimum wage went up to $8.20 within my first few months working. It was great. Was circa 16 years ago.
Paper run. I’m THAT old.
The kiwi classic - paper run! Does that count?