My first job was a paper boy. I had to get up early in the morning, be at work around 5am, and deliver the papers.
My first proper job was a farm hand which I enjoyed. It wasn't just milking, it was installing new fences, fixing water pipes and installing new troughs, and looking after the cows with feed etc. I enjoyed it but as a weedy 50kg slip of a a townie I wasn't really cut out for that sort of work.
From there I went and worked at the local meat works. I worked there for two reasons. As an ex-farmhand I wanted to see if the animals were killed humanely. They ARE. Also, for religious reasons I wanted to ensure the meat was properly bled. They ARE.
Most of my working career has been in IT with it totalling 18 years of my life until I realised that my desire to play with all the cool toys was being fulfilled by me buying the gear rather than working on it in my job. What I learned from 18 years of wasting my life is that corporations who would stand to gain by using the latest technology are too tight to spend money on it and therefore waste money by keeping old technology alive. God corporations are stupid.
Paper boy...a job that doesn't exist these days, at least in my location. Back in the day it was a thing though, I never did it though, as I just wrote in another comment on this post my first real job was in a supermarket.
Farm hand...that's some kinetic work (I'm from a small rural town originally), a good way to learn some life skills and build muscles that don't come from a gym.
It seems you had a pretty good work-life journey and as a person who shoots (and kills) animals I respect that you went to investigate what happens in a meatworks/abattoir. Many have baseless opinions on such things, yours is now more balanced.
Paper boy doesn't exist here in New Zealand either. A van comes along and just chucks it out the window and hopes it finds the house.
I find it sad that people don't know where their food comes from. I find it sad that they rail on cattle farmers and don't realise just how much worse for the environment crop harvesting actually is.
I have to admit, I'm someone who likes to learn how stuff works. It's way more interesting than just using something.
But I'm what is referred to as a Day Walker. As a late Gen-X I've walked the lack of technology path AND the technology path. I definitely prefer the latter though. God we wasted so much time doing stuff robots could do for us so much better.
Day walker...Ok, cool name, sort of like Blade in the movie of the same name, but different. Considering your age you may need to google that.
I respect people's opinion, it's polite and courteous, however I prefer them to be based on evidence, fact or at least some form of investigation; you seem to have done that so well done. As someone who has killed, and continues to do so, I get all sorts of comments about it, mostly negative and baseless, and the world cruel gets uttered which is people's prerogative...I know what I am and cruel is not it but I do not argue, I never have the conversation to be honest, there's no point.
As for the tech...I'm the guy that wants the power to go out for the next hundred years, that'll sort people out, a correction I feel is rewuired.
New Zealand huh? Love that place, want to return and considering its proximity to where I am it's sure to happen.
I'm 49 mate. No Googling for me. 🤣🤣🤣
You're in NZ's Western Island aren't you? I think we call it Australia. 😈😈😈
Lol...Ok, my mistake. Fucken hell, you're an old bastard! (I'm 53.5 so an even older one.)
Yeah, New Zealand's western province. (South Australia is where I am.)
I spent some time on the South Island of NZ, the less populated one on purpose) and loved it. Two weeks wasn't nearly enough but I got to see and do some amazing things so it was valuable.
Great hunting in SI. I've been twice but not really to do much, although I did check out the Burt Munro museum in Invercargill.
I'd like to do a hunt down there someday, I know a few who have done so and had a good experience. I'd tie it in with a general holiday around the place I guess, make best use of the time.