and i'm here with Narelle, my friend Narelle
who's been really great to come along
and have a chitchat. A chitchat session so
what are we talking about today? we're
just going to chat about our jobs haha
our first job and maybe our second job and
what that was like. So I think that's
something interesting to talk about - ok
so you might get that I'll get fish
alright so my first job um I was quite
young when I had my first job and I was
12 at that time so at the time i was i
was living in my home town port lincoln
and it's a small town in south australia
and i am I really wanted to save up some
money to get a stereo so I'm showing my
age of it yeah yeah yeahs tapes
beleaguered on tape cassettes we didn't
even have CD so yeah and i wanted i had
a little one but i wanted a bigger one
so um mom was like we'll get a job and
save up some money so I got a little job
delivering pamphlets bringing in
people's mailboxes yeah and so all these
foots sometimes well they're the smaller
ones but pamphlets are like a little
kind of booklets with that I used to
advertising and it has no sales and
discounts from shops and supermarkets so
we would get a big and I had a bicycle
so I would just go around my area and I
had a certain area that I had to cover
and I get a bunch of these pamphlets and
I put them on the back of my bike and
just take off so yeah so I did that for
about six months and you know we just
got like literally twelve dollars per
sack of bag pamphlets did you earn
enough for your stereo I did I did I'm
just yes I saved up and by Christmas I
had I think I one hundred and fifty
dollars to get crystarium fifty dollars
a lot of money back then
well it was yeah and then I continued
actually one side I'd reached my goal I
am I continued and then I wanted to go
to a concert in Adelaide so um and then
I just kept saving to go to that and
then after about I don't know maybe been
a year I was just bored bored with it
and and then school got busy so you know
had to kind of get focused on that and
yeah so that was my first job sounds
good how about yours ok I was 14 I
believe I'm one of my girlfriend's was
working down the road at a local war was
and a couple of positions came up so she
recruited myself and another friend from
school so I was like yeah sure I'll be
good to end my own money not have to
rely on my parents pocket money and yeah
I wasn't things yeah so yeah I was uh
well everything really i mean we're on
the full helping customers that mostly
what i did was a like a check out chick
which means i was like on the cashiers
Oh putting the sales trips very good at
it I'm really understand the concept of
credit cards information yeah wasn't
terribly good at the job yes however
working with my friends was fun so I
think I did that probably for about a
year how old r you 1414 live in your age
so I think I did that for a year I
remember the first time my very first
shift when i finished my mother father
and brother were outside of the store
waiting to me like oh you know it's just
a first job congratulations well done
could beat working girls yeah so yeah
but how did you feel about it did you
enjoy the did you hide it I found it
stressful to be honest I've you know
being a kind of I guess creatively
minded person it wasn't terribly good at
picking up things quickly like learning
how to use this their gums where you put
the you know that the price tag on
things you had to load them in
on that i found that complicated yeah
and yeah i didn't actually like working
on the cashiers when it would get the
lines with some a colander przemek
somebody to come help me on that on the
loudspeaker i would find that stressful
too I'm not traded technology and you
know a little too practical thank you
folks I enjoyed just like going around
the store like putting things back in
their place and cleaning like I was
flying with that I remember one
particularly fun job they gave me they
and I was like we're talking with a
really tall building my route they made
me get up on a ladder and dust the dust
off the fan imagine this probably some
kind of o.h ennis issue about that that
I shouldn't have been on it but anyway
well watching your kids in russell owner
looking yeah i'm going never having
climbed a ladder before so what would
the bosses hike and everything there is
it hmm i remember there being so there
was like a big boss but she wasn't
always there and she was actually the
mother of a girl I was taking drama
classes with at the time so I think they
may have helped my cause when I stuffed
up you know did the wrong thing um but
then the guy that was sort of next under
her i guess the assistant manager
whatever he was on the floor a lot and
yeah he was okay he lost patience with
me a time but you know it wasn't like
any kind of bad situation where there
was bullying or whatever okay it was my
first job and I didn't really have much
to compare it to but I thought they were
from yeah so you're going to put off you
know doing that will you put on I think
there yeah the next year I got it and my
second job which was quite different
again I was that I was a dental
assistant yeah well that is quite
differently is quite different so and
that involves even more technical things
that stress in our life making moulder
people's teeth and developing x-rays in
like you know sauce and I be in there in
the dark room that is banging on the
door going hurry up hurry up we have the
patients waiting so it like like yeah
yeah yeah
it was all I can be done very quickly
because you know I guess more patients
waiting in the waiting room you know
don't just wants to keep on top of it
all so so these like dental molds for
dentures or ya know mostly to braces
right oh yeah great it Wow so that was a
couple of years and then and then you
kind of went on from there well yeah I
think like sort of as other time that
came to like your 11 or 12 I was more
interested in concentrating on my
studies I was academic and I wanted to
get into University so I think my
parents were fine with me not having a
job then yeah well I actually you went
straight into another job but I didn't
actually work after about 13 until 18
well you're basically the rest of your
high school years yeah might see in here
I didn't I mean a couple of little
things here and there but I just you
know we just went to school and I've got
involved in all the things that I wanted
to do like acting activities and and
then it got busy with school so and then
then I really wanted to get one of
course once i finish school I really
wanted to get a job and get some
experience before I moved away from it
to Adelaide because I lived in a small
town so okay so um so yeah I started
with what did i do first my next job was
in a cinema dancer the movie love affair
yeah yeah so what I did was I did some
work experience at a few places and I
was just wanted to get into the
workforce a bit and get some experience
and I what did I do I yeah I volunteered
to do three days worth the experience of
this cinema I'm just trying to get my
resume up you know and they said yeah
okay so long and that was fun i enjoyed
it and then they offered me work so
through the summer the whole for about
three months I got work there and and
the people were great I got on really
well with the boss the bosses and yeah
so so I just was an ugly ass like a good
job yeah I was in uh sure so I was
helping young so people to this
it and check the checking the tickets
and I also worked at the candy bar as we
called it the kid yeah I think it still
called a candy bar and they didn't have
cash registers now I must sound like
cardless living the stick which I
practically was and it was with the
mid-nineties by then so and but it was a
small cinema and I didn't at that time
they didn't have a cash register so we
had to add everything up in our hair
door I didn't think Carol at that yeah
and I was always nervous handling money
but it was a good challenge because I
yeah yeah and I didn't really use
because they've got you know when it got
really dizzy you know people piling in
morning popcorn and coke and everything
I'll have this ice cream and that and
you don't really have time almost two
years to come to that computer
calculator so I was pretty much adding
it up in my head and I've worked out a
system actually went home and kind of
worked out and practice and practice how
to do it but I know I made many mistakes
like I overcharged and under challenge
and people just mostly didn't notice no
I think they just accept that somebody
else is doing the thinking for them so
there we go and so what would you say is
your the worst job you've ever had one
of those 10 was it one of those ones no
I don't think it was one of those ones I
think I think later on when i got into
sort of the real corporate workforce and
it was like you know just lots of hours
and late night to the office and gesture
stress and pressure and you just ended
up your whole life became work you're
all benign and the night was partly my
doing you know i'm letting things slide
and not doing any extracurricular
outside of work thing eventually just
yeah i might help actually started to
suffer with that so yeah cuz you can get
really swamped ya doing that working it
takes over your life a bit you forget to
have a lot better yes and the mentality
of that particular sort of office
culture wars to get through lots of
young people in
then you know grind them to the ground
work they're really hard and then you
know you eventually leave due to
exhaustion or whatever actually I think
after that yeah any job I took with them
quite different a little bit more sort
of so you got clearer about what you
want yeah and remind me 20s which I'm
kind of grateful for because lots of
people don't get clear about that too
much later sure yeah it's good those
experiences I guess help you realize
what you want to do but you know the 20s
are often about finding what you want to
do are they in experimenting in the chat
trying thing so great alright so there
we go
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