Grant Clifton

You got any jobs?

He said, yep.

And two weeks later, I was on an induction course for Westpac.

Oh, yeah.

So that was my first job in 1988 straight out of school as a 17-year-old, basically.

Yeah.

And I stayed in that industry pretty much all my life.

Yeah.

So up through the ranks of Westpac management, I went to another bank, Countrywide Bank and NZ, which became ANZ.

And then I got out of banking and became what we call them financial advisors in New Zealand, mortgage advisors.

Yeah.

um and then i had a real cool part of my life actually a short stint with a with a good um mate of mine uh who was a customer at westpac he started up a commercial fishing operation in the cook islands oh and he said uh hey i'll shut you and the missus up for a trip and um and when i was up there he put the hard word on me said yeah i need someone to run this place

And so he got us a house, got us a car, and I ran all of the office and everything.

So I used to go down and help unload all these bloody fish off the boats.

Oh, yeah.

Tuna.

And then I'd get on the phone and sell them to our markets in Japan and America.

We were catching tuna, swordfish, a lot of wahoo, mahi-mahi, that sort of stuff.

Yeah, awesome.

So I did that for nearly two years, but the wife got pregnant and she said, I'm not staying here to have the baby.