Lisa recalls having to find a job when a winery went out of businerss owing them a great deal of money....short delay for audio
Jill begins a two part story about colleagues and favourite times during my working years..... short delay before audio begins
Bill never planned to be a butcher but in 1933 (during the Great Depression) you took what was you could get..
Ruth recalls her different neighbours in St Peters, an Adelaide suburb. Audio begins after a short delay.
Margaret recalls her first real paid job - at the age of 48!
Lisa recalls her first experience with the Australian health care system - just after her family arrived in Australia.
Pat recalls her time as a swimming instructor..
Judith recalls her early working life..including changing 17,000 paybooks into decimal currency.
Joyce recalls her early jobs in typing and retail - including walking around Adelaide wearing expensive jewellery..
Graham recalls the career advice he got from his father and his first job.
Bill talks about the importance of railways in South Australia before the Second World War. He recalls all the different types of trains that passed through Tarlee and Hamley Bridge in the days before road transport took over.
Annette tells the story of her parents in law and how they survived the Second World War in Germany...(5 second delay at beginning)
Alice remembers Isabel, her best and dearest friend for 20 years...
Cynthia continues her story about her day as a garbage collector - March 02 1984.
Still on the subject of work Ruth recalls some co-workers and colleagues when she worked in the typing pool of a government department.
Seventy years on Shirley remembers finishing her job at Myer and having to do war work in a munitions factory..
Margaret talks about her first job in the 1940's.
Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.
There was a time when jobs were easy to get. Pat recalls those days in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
