Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show podcast. What's your first
Speaker 1: job you ever had? For Will?
Speaker 2: It was collecting eggs and avoiding Randy Cockrels. I have
Speaker 2: contacted this guy. I'm gonna need more details.
Speaker 1: What Saturday job is.
Speaker 2: Collecting eggs and avoiding Randy cockrels? Who knew those cockrells
Speaker 2: and sow Randy christ My first Saturday job, this is
Speaker 2: from Sheila, was at a bookmakers. Do you remember the
Speaker 2: before it was an app on your phone, the old
Speaker 2: school bookies? Yeah, like the taba yeah, just the smoke
Speaker 2: in their very intimidating places to go into. This was
Speaker 2: Sheila's first job, pre computers, whiteboards, market pens by hand
Speaker 2: because she had neat handwriting. This is really taking back
Speaker 2: to my grandad, actually my Irish granddad. Twice a week,
Speaker 2: you being the local bookies, and only for like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, two or three bucks. Would he ever put
Speaker 2: a place about, right, He just did it for fun,
Speaker 2: but we would do it religiously twice a week. And
Speaker 2: I remember when he was dying, he was in hospital
Speaker 2: for about three months. I remember the owner of the
Speaker 2: local bookmakers.
Speaker 1: Would go and see him twice.
Speaker 2: A week because he was his regular customer, just to
Speaker 2: get a couple of dollars off him. Not then he
Speaker 2: wanted because he knew it meant. So he goes, this
Speaker 2: guy's been coming in for like thirty years. He would
Speaker 2: still go right up until I think it was about
Speaker 2: ten days before he passed away. He was still taking
Speaker 2: the little slip away and he brought the little you know,
Speaker 2: those little strange pens.
Speaker 1: They used to have in them as well that always
Speaker 1: used to run out and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's taking money out of your inheritance.
Speaker 2: There was no don't worry, Christi and I loved it.
Speaker 2: All the Steward's inquiries. The photo finishes amazing job.
Speaker 1: Christian. I worked in a chemist.
Speaker 2: This is from Peter sold condoms to relieved young men
Speaker 2: when they realized the one going to get served by
Speaker 2: a lady. Christian Daz worked in a fish and chip shop.
Speaker 2: He thinks he was the best potato peanut in Australia.
Speaker 2: I worked on the Woolli's Deli used to give free
Speaker 2: cheese to my mates. I was a cherry picker during
Speaker 2: the school holidays. After two days I had to retire
Speaker 2: from eating too many cherries.
Speaker 1: I felt sick.
Speaker 2: Working at Butcher's got the sack for eating too many
Speaker 2: pork scratching straight out of the big bag, stacking shells
Speaker 2: at the big w on weeknights after school. Took a
Speaker 2: long time a year to graduate to working on the
Speaker 2: checkouts at the weekends. Ooh, and John did another job
Speaker 2: that I know you did, Jackie Boy, cinema usher, because
Speaker 2: and I still reckon it was the best job I
Speaker 2: ever had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would recommend that to any young people thinking
Speaker 3: about a job. Better than working at a fast food,
Speaker 3: better than working at a supermarket. Working at the cinemas,
Speaker 3: we got to go see the movies for free, and
Speaker 3: then as soon as everyone's in the cinema, you got
Speaker 3: an hour to kill just walking around eating a popcorn.
Speaker 3: It was great fun.
Speaker 1: Nine four four one O four three. The first job
Speaker 1: you ever had? Tim? What was it for you? Mate?
Speaker 4: I worked at the Cuckoo Nest when I was about
Speaker 4: fifteen or sixteen years old. I was there for probably
Speaker 4: less first or second shift. I swapped the crab salad
Speaker 4: with the thief cellers and I mixed them over because
Speaker 4: my job was to replace the celder. And I got
Speaker 4: fired by a team leader who was fifteen year old.
Speaker 4: He was younger than me and just being made the
Speaker 4: team leader, and I think fifteen, how I might have
Speaker 4: got to his head.
Speaker 1: Running the buffey.
Speaker 2: Tell you what that zero tolerance he got that crab
Speaker 2: salad mixed up with the seafood salad.
Speaker 1: That is, we stand on this at the Cuckoo Nest.
Speaker 1: So he fired you on the spot.
Speaker 4: You fired me on the spot.
Speaker 2: No right, because you're fifteen. I haven't been sacked my
Speaker 2: fifteen year old.
Speaker 4: But he said I didn't have what it takes and
Speaker 4: what thing at an early age. I did. I did
Speaker 4: get reinstated a week later because he wasn't actually allowed
Speaker 4: to bite me.
Speaker 5: Didn't have that.
Speaker 1: I didn't have that.
Speaker 2: This crab salad bar incredible, Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Cool, have a good day, thanks to calling the show mate.
Speaker 1: Now it's take care Jesse. How a ma, I'm good Jesse.
Speaker 1: All right, Jesse, what was your first job?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 7: I was a spooker and obviously a salesman down at
Speaker 7: the queen Bee Market of your fine fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 1: I bet that was great fun, right.
Speaker 7: It actually was. I was really nervous at the start.
Speaker 7: I started with my older brother who was back at
Speaker 7: the job. We'd all run through it at some point
Speaker 7: in time, and I was really nervous to scream and
Speaker 7: spruk on the bananas and the mangoes. But eventually I
Speaker 7: built up the confidence and started screwming and selling bananas
Speaker 7: and mangoes, and turned off fifty planets of strawberries, and
Speaker 7: we had the best beans in town. Everyone new to
Speaker 7: come to offen the beans.
Speaker 2: I love the sound of those people doing that. They've
Speaker 2: all got there's a rhythm in that to it, isn't there?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 7: They have good fun.
Speaker 1: I would have loved Jesse.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to see you in the early
Speaker 3: days when you were nervous and shy.
Speaker 1: Mangoes. That's only if you want to his.
Speaker 2: Voice breaking as well, because quite hit Pubert. Can you
Speaker 2: still remember the pattern?
Speaker 1: Now? Can you do a bit spooking on the line to.
Speaker 7: Get something going on? We got a dollar heady on
Speaker 7: the bananas.
Speaker 6: Now, the beautiful bananas North Queen's laying bananas. You got
Speaker 6: two dollars a punt of the strawberry, best beautiful sweet strawberries.
Speaker 6: What a banner for you today? We got four dollars
Speaker 6: on the banners. Now come down and get them from up.
Speaker 6: You're the best in town and you won't find any
Speaker 6: better around the market.
Speaker 7: No, you won't come get them.
Speaker 5: Want a mango?
Speaker 7: Where the mango?
Speaker 6: The women follow? Get the beautiful mango.
Speaker 1: You still.
Speaker 7: Like that?
Speaker 2: I'm going a couple of bunches, baby, and those mangoes.
Speaker 2: You still got the magic? Jesse was send your prize.
Speaker 2: That was awesome, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got John Andline. John. Were you also
Speaker 1: a spruker?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh the spruker? I reckon. I almost worked on the
Speaker 5: same store as Jessey.
Speaker 1: That is it? Because so are you at the vic
Speaker 1: Market as well?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: All was at the vic Market.
Speaker 1: We're reuniting the sprekers.
Speaker 7: I worked in a shed with Rocky Panuccio.
Speaker 1: All right, and have you still got some of your spill?
Speaker 1: Can you do some now? If you go?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Paper, we got a banana what lover banana.
Speaker 2: Fresh quality tape tape tape, Penny, what lover of the
Speaker 2: Muscia room.
Speaker 7: Musia room?
Speaker 1: Yours is more?
Speaker 5: Just?
Speaker 1: Yet? He is a bullying us as adviser. To stop
Speaker 1: the noise.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Christian O Carl's Show podcast sworn
Speaker 2: and then we're taking your calls, your stories about the
Speaker 2: very first job you ever had.
Speaker 1: That's your love.
Speaker 2: This So both the Ruby and lois both my daughters
Speaker 2: at the moment applying for Saturday jobs. Ruby is seventeen
Speaker 2: and next year big yive here she at the end
Speaker 2: of the year she goes into year twelve, So massive
Speaker 2: year next year. And a big thing is when she
Speaker 2: turns eighteen next year in July. She is saying to
Speaker 2: me that she would like a car, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, good luck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't worry about eight years before I got
Speaker 2: a car. Don't automatics get a car. It's not like
Speaker 2: a birth right that you just get a car. And
Speaker 2: also she was like looking at Carls as well. She
Speaker 2: showed me a laptop with a load of light super rus.
Speaker 1: I went, you're on that kind of car.
Speaker 2: Wow, you really surprising me at super rudent burnouts.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was you.
Speaker 2: I said, look, we can talk about that, but I said,
Speaker 2: you need to contribute towards it. You absolutely have to
Speaker 2: get a job and start to chip in towards it.
Speaker 2: And so and she was going, I said how much
Speaker 2: you think you could chip in? So say, this is
Speaker 2: roughly what you might get if you worked like a
Speaker 2: couple of hours during the week, and she was going,
Speaker 2: I think I could probably give you like twenty to
Speaker 2: thirty dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Oh so much? Did you hear eighteen in July?
Speaker 8: Let's do the match we're in October. You're going to
Speaker 8: present to me with a check right, undred bar? I
Speaker 8: mean you barely get a wing mirror, So am I
Speaker 8: gonna pay for ninety nine per car? So much to
Speaker 8: learn about that big old world out there?
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, lucky you.
Speaker 3: They're all the spending money coming in under the government.
Speaker 2: You wait, the calories time with these kids out working,
Speaker 2: You're gonna see a very different me.
Speaker 1: I'll be handing out.
Speaker 9: Honey's on a Friday to you and the team, oh
Speaker 9: three hundred dollars towards a super room, go bosk racing
Speaker 9: the police at the weekend.
Speaker 1: Shibby and Patsy's News.
Speaker 2: On a Monday, the air wing was called stingers out.
Speaker 1: Rubio kinda was back ound that super wo on Saturday nights.
Speaker 1: All right, what scenes one?
Speaker 2: O four three? What was your very first job? Let's
Speaker 2: go to Brett. Good morning Brett.
Speaker 5: Can any guys, how are you going, We're good.
Speaker 1: Brett, welcome to the show. What was it for you?
Speaker 1: What was the first job Brett had?
Speaker 5: Well, I used to work at a obviously you might
Speaker 5: know or not know, Jack Wood.
Speaker 6: It was our.
Speaker 5: AFL park Wavery Park before over and went on to
Speaker 5: Road and Mulgrave and I was doing basically he just
Speaker 5: selling the cold drinks and the chips and or sometimes
Speaker 5: he went out and sold pies and so forth. And
Speaker 5: oh yeah, it wasn't it wasn't too bad. I didn't
Speaker 5: pay much anyway, But a lot of the times I
Speaker 5: spent a lot of my time sneaking around the ground
Speaker 5: before the game started, because I don't know if anyone
Speaker 5: knows if a path was full of a lot of
Speaker 5: secret little places you could get into the place where
Speaker 5: I used to use to my advantage to get into
Speaker 5: later on to get because if you got in early
Speaker 5: in the day, you got the better stand and the
Speaker 5: better stall the workout.
Speaker 3: And how did you need to sneak into the ground
Speaker 3: if you were working.
Speaker 5: There, Because if you're working there, what happened was if
Speaker 5: you earlier, you got there front of the que or
Speaker 5: the where the kids coming to work, you've got a
Speaker 5: better store. So then I'd get into the front, very front,
Speaker 5: and always getting good the door.
Speaker 2: But the thing was, we're dining with a young Danny
Speaker 2: Ocean here on the line right now, Brett Ocean.
Speaker 5: Just don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1: We'll keep it quice. I'll give it your real name.
Speaker 5: Do you guys? I'm not sure. I who remember the
Speaker 5: blue coats back at the park and they were like
Speaker 5: your security guards basically, and they basically spent their time
Speaker 5: just patrolling. But the last time they spent their time
Speaker 5: game in the pub sneaking a.
Speaker 1: Few beers once again.
Speaker 2: And they are the more we leaving about the runnings
Speaker 2: of security systems in Australia, the more i'm their gods,
Speaker 2: the laxness, most of the time.
Speaker 8: In the pubs in a blue coat, so everyone knows
Speaker 8: what they're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 5: There was a classic though, getting ticed by these guys.
Speaker 5: They're so unfit.
Speaker 2: There a stomach full of a couple of paints in them,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to run you guys down.
Speaker 1: That's brilliant, Brett. Thank you very much. You cool. Have
Speaker 1: a good day. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast