Babysitting at 12, then sandwich bar at 14 & 9mo

17 waitress in Chinese restuarant. Fun times, but it was cash and the boss paid you according to how much he liked you that week 😡
If only i wasn't so naive back then! There were so many dodgy things he could have been reported for!

I was a checkout chick at woolies when I was 15. Best fun ever. Mind you, that was before scanners and conveyer belts

15 and worked at Coles - back in the 80’s when shops closed at midday on Saturdays and there was no Sunday shopping. I worked every Saturday morning - keying in each price from price stickers (no scanning!)...it seems absolutely prehistoric when I think about it!

14 - Shell Roadhouse

25 when my kids were 8,6,4
Worked at maccas

18 (unless you count all the free farm labour I did at home lol)- worked at a petrol station that did a bit of groceries and takeaway too. No training whatsoever- I cooked a piece of fish for someone and they brought it back because it was still frozen in the middle 😂😂😂😂

14, Maccas.. for three days after quitting lol

14 fruit and vegetable shop, my parents were migrants and migrants were running the shop. I desperately wanted to work in a pharmacy. I discovered I really loved working with fresh food and they gave me some to take home every week which I used to cook with my mum.

14 at woolies

13 in a truck stop kitchen, waitress and dishwashing. I lied about my age, I was not old enough to get a job so they paid me cash until I was old enough to work above board.
School holidays were so busy there and I loved that I was ‘rolling in cash’ by the end of the holidays. I worked weekends sometimes as well.
Didn’t get enough weekend work for my liking so I worked Saturday mornings from 14 and a half in a clothing store on the fabric counter , I loved cutting fabric off the rolls and writing handwritten dockets.
Sometimes doing a Saturday afternoon shift a the truck stop.
The good old days when your whole pay could go into savings or on a want not a need.

14, worked in a chicken shop after school

14, Hungry Jacks

I was 17. I started my nursing diploma back
In the day when nursing training was hospital based and you worked and studied and made up staff numbers. Very tough, such an eye opener for a very green schooler leaver.

I was 18years and worked as a personal care attendant. I worked with elderly and disabled people in their own homes, and did anything from assisting with showering to taking them on outings.