Well, with hindsight, the one thing I would not like to do again is try to make a hobby adventure travel business a sustainable business during the year of a major event like the bicentennial or the limpdicks, etc. all the customers spend their money at the special event.
The dollar earnng jobs included;
a)Delivering phamplets, phone books and newspapers,
b)hanging skins at the abbattoir(sp?),
c)Killing and plucking chickens during Summer,
d)Building early Twainese kit furniture,
e)Totally screwing up a variety shop storeroom(+3 months; Now you tell me how it should be arranged),
f)Learning not to inhale solder fumes whilst training with PMG,
g)Riding my bicycle to my first EDP job at a car sales place. (a Datsun dealer),
h)Running vacation centres for kids for YMCA and working at government ones,
i)Running trips for adventure travel companies, and
j)a host of different IT jobs which are dead set boring unless you have been there.
The smartest thing I ever did was not to take the enormous amount of money that the building society wanted to give us for our first home; Naah, this little place is fine.
That really helps when the complete tool in charge decides he want to review your pay packet downwards because he fscked up the one and only part of the relocation planning that he did, or your are told to do a 9 week task in a fortnight(hahaha company died soon after), or your way out of their depth manager didn't have a telephone call to your home answered when you are off sick and definitely in bed(yeah, it folded soon too) and a few other things.
Other things I'd strongly recommend is further study, even if it is job hobby classes; offset printing, welding(stick, oxy, tig), bush regeneration, and the rest I forget.
Oooh, just remembered, one of the best jobs was being paid to walk around Barringtop tops measuring trees. Unfortunately boss was an academic and as bosses they are marginally better than accountants who think they can run a company and produce real goods.
