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job: coffs fish co-op
wage:$10.31

refereeing basketball either
$12-$38.50 per game, depends what i ref
 

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I don't think >$30k is that impressive, >$40k perhaps, but wowing just doesn't happen for me at 30k.
 

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I'm owed for the last couple weeks. Found out today that it was more than $1300. Makes me very happy.
 

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job: waitress at restaurant and cafe
pay: $12/hr at both
hours: 4-5 at restaurant and 20> at cafe depends if 3 or 4 shifts
 

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hipsta_jess said:
I don't think >$30k is that impressive, >$40k perhaps, but wowing just doesn't happen for me at 30k.
(ROFL did you not get the hint that I purposely picked a number which was below the starting wage of most grads =P) - don't want anyone's feelings to get hurt!
 

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Job: Salesperson (yes it involves real customer contact, unlike sales assistant)
Age: 17 (18 in under a month)
Wage: $8.78 (jumps at 18 to $10 i think) + commission + spivs
Where: Harvey Norman Furniture
Hours: 8-6 mon-fri (only paid 9 - 5:30, it sucks to work for your dad)
8-4:30 sat and 9-4:30 sunday (I am there an hour before we open and on average half an hour after we close)

Started: Day after last exam (last thursday)

Previously: Casual sales person
 

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hipsta_jess said:
I don't think >$30k is that impressive, >$40k perhaps, but wowing just doesn't happen for me at 30k.
>$60k would make me go "ok you did well straight out of uni" of course that is without super (so add a few more %) maybe $70k package. You get a better than $70k package and i'd say you were good.

Most grads start off fairly low which is why they will often skip their first job after a short period of time once they get experience. One of my friends managed a $50k package and has just moved on to a $80k package. Another started on $55k package and is still around $65k at the moment because he likes the travelling :)
 

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natstar said:
Left right out- you have done marketing right? Did you do honours at all?
Nope, and I don't work in marketing other than teaching it, well I do consulting but I don't consider that working in marketing. We just had a huge final year real life market research project.
 

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Job: Archival Assistant
Age: 18
Wage: 14.5/hour (can work when i feel like it)

Job: Soccer Ref
Age: 18
Wage: between 12 and 150 dollars (sometimes cash in hand) depending on age group / league

Job: Cricket Umpire
Age: 18
Wage: $34 a game (lasts for 2 hours so 17 / hour)
 

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This thread is making me depressed like you wouldn't believe.

17, Oporto, $10.xx hr. Irregular hrs a week.

Anyone with a nice reception/library job mind sharing how they got it?
 

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woolworths supermarket
age: 18
rate: $10.87 hr

bastards made me part-time as soon as i turned 18, the casual rate was like $2 more and hr.
 

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woolies liquor
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grade 1 trainee whatever for the next 2 months @ $11.80

ive been getting heaps of hours, including some time and a half
 

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used to do 6 hours a week but now am picking up lots of shifts

yes its shit as money, but i get time and a quarter friday-sunday plus i've been getting a cash in hand bonus for working extra hours.
 

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_DeathlessOne_ said:
How much do mushroom pickers get paid? Theres always mushroom picking jobs advertised and it seems like a bludge :cool:
Mushroom picking is not a bludge its boring, repitive and back braking. Also its piecemeal so only the best pickers (eg done it for twenty years) get the $16-$18 p/h that a packer gets as their flat rate.
 

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