Patrick Moloney

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Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland · Family Flowers Only with Patrick Moloney · 24 May 2026 podcast

And without that paper, you're just going to be treated like just an average fella coming in with the skills to be able to do that.

Obviously, you have to learn what their materials are and work from those kind of situations as well.

But like the three years I was with that company, I was making nearly half what the qualified fellas were making there, which is fine because I'm treated like, because I don't have the paperwork.

And then it got to the end of that three years.

They had expanded into this big company because of the rebuild.

And as soon as the work started dissipating a small bit, they started cutting fellas off.

And I was one of the first fellas that they had mentioned after.

And then there was another company, contacted them, and was like, right, so come on away over.

Same thing again, because you don't have the proper paperwork.

We can't give you a...

And this thing was kind of grating me underneath.

New Zealand is different in relation to qualifications, plumbing, so you can have a tradesman license or a certified license.

And I explained it to the scenario, if you're going to go along and get your certified license, which means you can sign off buildings, you can sign off whatever,

you have to do like this these long extra courses you have to do a study for it and you qualify it and then like you're on a high wage bracket and all that kind of crap so

I was like, I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that, within all whatever I was doing to myself.

And so I went to the next company, same situation, wasn't working out, next company.

My wife at the time came pregnant and I had no job.

And then she had called a company down further south in a place called Pleasant Point.

So Pleasant Point would be, the best way to explain Pleasant Point is that there's a place that makes tackle for fishing and there's a corner shop with small bottles and it's just a drive-thru town and there's a pub and it's in the middle of nowhere, but it's like about two hours from Queenstown.

So your man said, great, no bother at all, take the job and

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