MM 331 - What Was Your First Job? How Much Did You Get Paid?
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Generate is supporting my vision to improve the financial literacy of a hundred thousand Kiwis by sponsoring Keep the Change. Cheers Generate. Head to generateKiwisaver.co dot nz forward slash change to find out more. Lifetime I've gone from earning the minimum wage to now earning over $400,000 in a year. And to say that I have bowen what I once thought was possible out of the water would be an understatement. So I thought what we could do is dig into the archives of some of the jobs that I did and ways that I found to increase my income whilst being at those jobs and then through the last 10 years of my income data. And I'd love to know from you what your first job was and how Much you were getting paid to do it.
Welcome in. You are listening to another episode of KeepTheChange.co.nz Money Mail. And this is a video that I recorded recently and it's a bit of a banger actually. I think it's nearly done 30,000 views. It's called How I Went From that's on YouTube, which is quite tricky to do. How we went from minimum wage to 400k a year in New Zealand. Um I went to step through all of my jobs and also some of my income levels. I thought it could be quite fun to do. Part of it was uh off the back of When I was doing a podcast of Leighton from Sheesy's, he's like, Do you tell people about what you earn? I don't know if he put it into the podcast. I think maybe he did. And I was like, oh, like, yeah, I do. And then I'm like, oh, people don't really ask to be honest.
But then I'm like, maybe I should go through and do like a breakdown of the different jobs I've had and shit. It could be quite fun. Uh so that's basically what I did. Uh, but I do think, you know, you've got to be a little bit careful talking about your income. Not everybody likes it, right? Like people are gonna judge you, people have got biased, they've got assumptions, and you you will get people will think about you in a different way 'cause Yeah, it's sort of hard to articulate, but If you you know, if some people don't think that's possible and then you're saying it is, then you're testing their belief system. You've then got do you deserve it? Don't you? Like all and everyone puts their shit on you and you're just saying, Oh, this is what I get paid.
And then people put their shit on you. It's the same thing, you know, if they put um CEO pays and stuff like that into the uh media, like you you see it play out on there. So, you know, just because you're not a CEO doesn't mean you won't face that. So it's a little bit uh bold doing a video like that, but I try to lean into being bold and thinking about the good things that'll come of it, but I am not uh foolish enough to accept that that video will piss some people off, it will have them judge me, it will conjure up all sorts of different shit um for people to think about because they've got their own stuff going on. And What I did to sort of soften it and what I want to do today with with you guys is think about what was your first job and how much did you get paid.
And there's there's a reason for doing this and we'll get to that at the end. But I remember my first job, I was about 12 years old riding around on a one-speed BMX, I think it's a GT, I think that's what it's called. Delivering junk mail. So that was me. That was that was what got me getting a bit of cash in. Now New World Coupon Book Week. Oh, that was always a banger. Uh, because those mother Man, you know how heavy those things were? When you're trying to carry around a couple of streets worth in your bag, in the backpack, whilst riding a one speed BMX. Now, I had to figure out how many of those things I could hold before I had to go home and and and reload. I don't think they do the old coupon books anymore.
But I think you had to do a second run because you'd have to do the coupon books separately. But I think you got paid more for doing the coupon books. No, I had to ask Mum because I can't remember what I got paid for doing this. I think it was paid based on the number of things that you delivered.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–9:27
2
What is the host’s first job and how much did he earn delivering junk mail?
9:27–17:11
3
What lessons did listeners share about their first jobs and wages?
17:11–22:07
4
How did the host’s early earnings compare to today’s minimum wage rates?
22:07–31:04
5
Why does gaining a forklift licence boost earning potential?
31:04–33:23
Speakers
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