Since I'm trying to write the impossible resume for a new job this weekend, I thought I would reflect on some of the jobs I've had.
My first job was an offsider for a carpet layer at the princely sum of $20pw. This led to being a carpet salesman..oh joy. Then a factory hand at Gibsons flour mill, which afforded me my first trip to QLD. There, I had my shortest job..a tailor-out in a bench mill...I didn't go back after lunch ! Back in those days, before computers, I just went to another dole office and gave a different set of job qualifications...this time as a fully qualified cabinet maker (at 17 years..lol) I worked there 3 months before coming back to Tassie.
Back on home soil, I became a delivery driver for Canes, before heading off to the Territory, where I had one of the best jobs working at the Alice Springs Hospital, as orderly, ambulance driver, morgue attendant and security guard..it was great ! Then on to Adelaide, offsider to a lift mechanic, then darkroom assistant, processing film.
Back to Hobart, professional photographer with TVT6, decky (shark, blue-eye and cray), taxi driver, service station manager and a few more in between, which brings me up to the present years of mentoring "at-risk" youth..
In all these jobs, the hardest and yet most rewarding job I've had...was and is, ...being a parent !!
Now...to the resume..!...I've never had to fill one out....the times, they are a changing :)
