It took a few weeks I'm pretty sure. And unless your manager is a jerk they should still call you back (or at least contact you) if you don't get the job. I think mine was about 3 weeks, and orientation was another few weeks after that.
As for applying for other jobs, you could always apply...
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If you've got your licence pizza places like Dominos and Eagle Boys are always looking for delivery drivers. Apparently its not the best job but like everyone's been saying, you really need to take what you can get. In the end they will pick the 13 year old over you because they need to...
I work there and as a 17 y/o I get $11.83 per hour. When I was 16 and on training it was about $8/h. You spend 6 months on training before you get your pay rise, it just so happened that the end of my training happened right on my birthday, so I got both at once. Your pay goes up about $2/h...
Bio isnt that easy... And my girlfriend does business studies and its quite hard too. You should pick subjects that you enjoy, I picked ones to get into a course that I wanted to do but now Ive changed my mind (and probebly will a few more times) and ill have to do a bridging course at uni.
If...