Meet some working Australians. They're going to tell us about their jobs.


SARAH: OK. I just work in retail as a customer service I guess at a little $2 shop called Cheap as Chips and yeah. So basically it's just working at the counter, putting stock out, keeping the shop floor tidy, obviously being - yeah, customer service to customers, showing them where things are and stuff like that, yeah.

I firstly just started when I was starting University down here, so I just handed my résumé around at any other shop that I could find and then I just got a phone call from them asking to come in for an interview and they just asked questions such as, what was my prior experience, what sort of qualities I could bring to the job

PETER: Yes certainly. I've been working for Telstra virtually since I left school, so it's 37 years ago now. But in various forms I went through and did a lot of technical training and then with the change in the workforce and changing technology, they didn't require the physical work to be done any more so I eventually went to a couple of different positions and then finally finished up transferring to the area I'm in now which is effectively, as I say, it's desk-bound most of the time, so I'm sitting in front of the computer looking at financial type things. But it's using a lot of the experience I gained through the years and the technical side initially, but it's been now about 5 years since I had any technical work, but that laid the foundation to get the job I'm working on now.

IAN: A normal day at my job's in the night. Actually I work night shift and I'm a nurse, an enrolled nurse at a War Veterans' Home. I now work in the hostel section of it and look after 70 residents ex war veterans, mostly from World War II now but we've got one or two Korean War Vets and Vietnam War Vets as well, and I sort of look after them during the night. Most of them I don't even see really because they sleep well and no problems, but I just sort of oversee the 70 residents, yeah.