Great wages for little effort
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G'day all, I find it very interesting how we get remunerated for our efforts and how many people get paid very well for doing SFA. Thought this would be an interesting thread for people to share jobs they have/had which pay very well for little effort.
I currently work casually for the Government and do a handful of hours a week. But somehow, I get up to $200 an hour for simply talking. To be honest I feel guilty about how much I get for the effort I put in. I remember as a teenager working 40 hours a week manual labour in the outdoors and getting around $200.
I had a mate who got a firefighting job at the local Navy Base. They had an airstrip and needed firefighters on duty 24 hours a day. He turned up at 7pm, had his dinner, played cards/movies and then went to sleep. In all the years he worked there I'm not sure exactly how much firefighting he actually did. Sure he did training but effectively he got paid to sleep.
Please share your stories.
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@chimoaus GISSA JOB
When I was 18 I had a contract to clean a department store. Employed all my mates -was supplied free dinner and was pulling in about double the average full time wage for between 5-10 hrs/week. Meaning I could spend all afternoon at the pub. Life was easy.
It's been all downhill since
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@dogmeat said in Great wages for little effort:
It's been all downhill since
Funny how that works ay?
Not funny in the sense of haha fucking ha, either.
I'm not allowed to mention some of my previous jobs on here, but I did have one where I was able to lie on a bed, get bought caviar and other first class food by beautiful young women in uniform, watch a movie (whilst in bed) and have a nap for half of the time that I was being paid.
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@snowy said in Great wages for little effort:
@dogmeat said in Great wages for little effort:
It's been all downhill since
Funny how that works ay?
Not funny in the sense of haha fucking ha, either.
I'm not allowed to mention some of my previous jobs on here, but I did have one where I was able to lie on a bed, get bought caviar and other first class food by beautiful young women in uniform, watch a movie (whilst in bed) and have a nap for half of the time that I was being paid.
Sounds like one of those dreams with a happy ending
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@chimoaus said in Great wages for little effort:
@snowy said in Great wages for little effort:
@dogmeat said in Great wages for little effort:
It's been all downhill since
Funny how that works ay?
Not funny in the sense of haha fucking ha, either.
I'm not allowed to mention some of my previous jobs on here, but I did have one where I was able to lie on a bed, get bought caviar and other first class food by beautiful young women in uniform, watch a movie (whilst in bed) and have a nap for half of the time that I was being paid.
Sounds like one of those dreams with a happy ending
No comment.
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@dogmeat said in Great wages for little effort:
@snowy when I read @chimoaus original post I immediately thought of you and thought our resident serial killer will be all over this one
I was talking about being on the dole and the girls in my cellar.
Assume that's what you are alluding to?
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Current gig, when I’m allowed.
Teaching people to ski powder on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan.
Then joining them for dinner & drinks in the evening.
I work hard, and the days are often long.
But it’s no effort to get out of bed in the morning.
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I have a full-time job, but I also have a side hustle that I do for 8-10 hours a week. Not only does it pay well - and by the very nature of the work, I've managed to do it more quickly over the years thus increasing my "hourly rate" - but it is also a genuine help when I'm placing a bet on the horses.
The money earned is basically my holidays and house renos allowance.
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I do often ponder why one persons effort is worth so much compared to another, when they both in theory work as hard as each other. I guess it just shows how inequality and the lack of opportunity really penalises certain people. I think the key is to try and find a job that brings you joy regardless of the pay rate.
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@chimoaus said in Great wages for little effort:
I do often ponder why one persons effort is worth so much compared to another,
when they both in theory work as hard as each otherFootballers 😬
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Not proud of this - but when I was a student, I was employed at a fair around Newmarket in Auckland to conduct surveys on what everyone thought of the event. We were sent out for 6 hours with no supervision. As it was being explained, it twigged that they wouldn't know who filled in the surveys. My eyes scanned the group looking for the other person most likely to realize what I did. I found one guy and we promptly walked off out of the grounds, sat on a bench, hurriedly faked surveys and then went to KFC or the movies or both. This went on for five days. The pay was shit, but the "work" was non-existent.
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Best job I had in terms of doing SFA for an okay wage was as a student working on the port in Auckland. We were paid roughly double the minimum wage to drive cars off the car ships. Because the union was so strong, there were some great work conditions:
If we started a shift and the boat got finished at any time during the shift, that was it, we got paid until the end of the shift regardless.
We did two hours on, and then had a half hour break. Given it'd be 5 - 10 minutes each way to get back to the smoko room, you only worked about half a shift.
If we worked more than the eight hour shift, it was time and half, so we were effectively on triple the minimum wage for an unskilled job
We got to race brand new cars up and down the port under the guise of taking them to their parking spots.
If we worked a night shift, they rotated people in and out to have an hour nap in a car or van somewhere on the boat.
I've never met a lazier bunch of people in my life. The guys who were permanents there were pretty close to six figures, I understand, and that was circa 2002. Most had no education or skills training, they just stuck round long enough to climb the ranks.
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Flipping the thread around (fuck you, it's the Fern), what's the worst pay you had?
I used to work in the fish bay at Pak'n'Save for $3.63 /hr pre tax. I also delivered a Sunday paper that had to be finished by 6am, got $4 per week for that .
Funnily enough I loved that Pak'n'Save job, got to eat anything we wanted from the adjacent deli (fried chicken, mmm) in between serving people fish and pretending to know which one would be good in a curry . Was 15 at the time, a mate used to pick me up after a Friday shift and we would hit the parties. No amount of scrubbing would get the stench off my hands, I was not popular with the ladies (one of many reasons I guess)
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I was a kitchen hand at the local old folks care home when I was a teenager.
Still argue one of the best jobs I've ever had. Up to 4 of us in the kitchen, used to have a huge amount of fun whilst working & the oldies absolutely loved us. I think it taught me proper appreciation for elderly people too, something which is usually lacking in people of that age. Some of the shit we had to deal with when serving up in the dementia ward was pretty scary looking back.
Saturday morning shift was 5:30-1:30. So had all afternoon to do whatever. Brilliant.
No idea what I got paid. But I know when I started uni, I was pretty cash heavy compared to most. Well, except for those receiving student allowances (who generally had the wealthiest parents).
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@chimoaus said in Great wages for little effort:
@voodoo at 13 I rode 30 minutes to a cafe, washed the dishes, cleaned floors and tables for 2 hours and rode 30 minutes home. I got $5, but at the end of the week I had $25 which was a lot, plus I got leftovers which my mum loved.
See, you've earned every fucking bit of your current cruisy gig!!
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@chimoaus said in Great wages for little effort:
G'day all, I find it very interesting how we get remunerated for our efforts and how many people get paid very well for doing SFA.
At uni I worked as a storeman in a warehouse and decided to read the award we were working under. Apparently no one else had thought of doing that. Turns out if I worked late one Saturday evening and came in early the next day the penalties effectively made two days equivalent to a week's wages. The company put an end to that level of flexibility pretty soon thereafter.
@voodoo said in Great wages for little effort:
Flipping the thread around (fuck you, it's the Fern), what's the worst pay you had?
Staff (officer) cadet at RMC. Ludicrous hours and impost on my life for the princely sum of about $25k p.a. Graduation and the opportunities it provided to seriously misbehave and blow shit up slightly evened up the ledger.
