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Bunny04

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Age: 20
Job: MEGT Apprentiship Trainning Processing and Call Centre.
(inlcudes: Filing, data entry, calling up apprentices and their employers, claims and so on)
Pay rate: 18.20 per hour.
Max hours a week work: 8 hours a day, 5 days a week during Uni holidays only.
 

Kwayera

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Jachie said:
Sanity used to be a place I really wanted to work at. Then JB HIFI opened at my local mall. :p

Age: 16
Job: Greater Union Usher
Pay rate: $11.41 an hour
Hours per week: Varies. This week I got 14 hours. I had to work Christmas Eve and today, but I got double time, so.....whooo!

Dude. You're 16 and you get paid more than me. Not cool.


Age: 18
Job: Casual retail...person at Victoria's Basement. Includes stocking, tending the register and dealing with idiot customers.
Pay rate: $10.50 per hour.
Hours per week: average 30; been more recently with the extended xmas trading hours.

Okay, my employer is actually not legally paying me enough. Only get $2.10 casual loading; no holiday casual loading; no saturday 4+ hour allowance and no time and a half on sundays (which I do work). Which means when I shove the legislation in their faces and claim for retrospective pay I'll probably lose said job. Oh well.
 

kaiser_iqbal

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Damn you guys earn quite a bit.

Age: 17
Job: Kmart
Pay Rate: $10.28 but i usually work sundays, so time and half
hours: around 10 hours a week.

Shit thing is that the kmart i work at is closing down and i wont have a job no more.
 

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Age: 18
Job: Junior receptionist at a doctors surgery
Pay: $10.85...What a load of bullshit!! That better just be my training rate :mad1:
 
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BlackDragon

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purplemonkey said:
Age: 18
Job: Junior receptionist at a doctors surgery
Pay: No bloody idea! Only started there on Tuesday :p
?
It should be in the contract you signed upon accepting employment at that business.
 

BlackDragon

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kaiser_iqbal said:
Damn you guys earn quite a bit.

Age: 17
Job: Kmart
Pay Rate: $10.28 but i usually work sundays, so time and half
hours: around 10 hours a week.

Shit thing is that the kmart i work at is closing down and i wont have a job no more.
bummer.
all kmarts are changing to "Coles Selection" anyway. or that's what a little bird told me.
 

kylie_robbo

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BlackDragon said:
?
It should be in the contract you signed upon accepting employment at that business.
Nup... I have been at a Dr's surgery as a receptionist for 5 months now, and I haven't signed anything with a surgery letterhead except the privacy contract.

I'm 19 and get 8.94/hr, but that is according to the clerical and administration state award, not the trainee award.
 

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Toys R Us

Age: 18

$12-13 I forgot. Time to look for a new job as the shifts are shit after xmas/ny.
 

Reshie

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$15-16(not worth the pay people)

Different hospitals
Age:21
 

lexie85

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so any hints about data entry jobs ? i've gone through a bunch of online ads and they all want either experienced ppl or something like 70wpm :(
 

Nakashima

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Pharmacy Assistant
$14.50/hr

EB Games
$17.50/hr

Age: 19
 

Nakashima

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Riviet said:
Wow! =O Which EB? I'ver never seen women work in EB to be honest.
Rhodes. :)

Yeah most of the staff are male. They hired two girls at the end of last year.
 

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I've done a few odd jobs:

Casual market research interviewing: $17 - $19/hr
Tutoring: $20 - $25/hr
Student marketing: $14/hr on a short term project, but it was alot of fun!

I really feel for you guys working is retail and hospitality especially. Being paid based on age really is a disincentive. If you have the opportunity, have a look jobs in the services sector. Casual ones are flexible and you get a higher rate.
 

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lexie85 said:
so any hints about data entry jobs ? i've gone through a bunch of online ads and they all want either experienced ppl or something like 70wpm :(
Mate, I won't bother about Data Entry job unless I stumble across it.
I can actually type something in the vicinity of 50-60 wpm and applied for just about every administration positions that I could find before Christmas period, but got nothing apart from a couple of phone interviews. Don't go for it unless you find some desperate employer or you study some sort of computing/administration course at TAFE or Uni.
Got another job, though I don't know if I am to last in it for a long time.
 

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Kwayera said:
Age: 18
Job: Casual retail...person at Victoria's Basement. Includes stocking, tending the register and dealing with idiot customers.
Pay rate: $10.50 per hour.
Hours per week: average 30; been more recently with the extended xmas trading hours.

Okay, my employer is actually not legally paying me enough. Only get $2.10 casual loading; no holiday casual loading; no saturday 4+ hour allowance and no time and a half on sundays (which I do work). Which means when I shove the legislation in their faces and claim for retrospective pay I'll probably lose said job. Oh well.
What exactly are you going to do about it?
 

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Bah, I don't turn 18 till May. I think I'll just stick it out jobless till I do. Anyway, I'll make sure I enjoy these holidays not working seeing as they'll be the last major ones before I do turn 18 and find a job.
 

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i been through a fair few pages but no person has mentioned about the pay at DICK SMITH.

so wat would the pay be for 18yr old casual/part time job?


thx :)
 

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