My First Job – Chip Boy

September 3rd, 2010 Filed under: Life, Work

My first real job was working at a Fish and Chip shop with my best friend Kalama. It was really only a job for 1 person, but Kalama and I talked the guy into hiring us both. We were the chip boys, which meant we would peal and cut up all the potatoes to make the chips.

Machines did most of the work. We had to; carry 20 kg bags of potatoes from storage to the back room, tip the bags into a pealer, empty the pealer and cut off and crappy bits before shoving them into a chopper.

We got paid $1 per bag and we would do between 4 – 6 bags after school every day. It took about 40 mins every day.

The pay was bad. We always stunk of fish and lard. But I got to work with my best friend and get pretty much all the free fish and chips I wanted, so I remember it fondly.

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