Jobs we took on when we were young

A friend sent this to me. I think she was blogging about the jobs she did until now.
Below are 2 of them we did together.
Brings back the memories.....
We were so young and thought we were invincible.


Job 3: Factory worker
Nature: Holiday
Location: A factory somewhere in, perhaps, Clementi or Tuas. XL father's.
Age: 15/16?
Rate: $30 at end of day + very delicious bbqed meat rice for lunch.

XL's recommendation. We (YQ, WW, XL and myself) spent mornings and afternoons moving goods and pasting stickers on huge bottles of detergent. We were young and the bottles were heavy. So, the four of us developed muscles very quickly and easily. The lunch was great. It was funny. Kept listening to this song, "Pian Ti Ling Shang", by Gu Hao, since it was so popular then and the factory's radio was tuned to FM93.3. XL's father would come by in the evening and give us $30 each for our labour. It's funny thinking about it now :-), because after that we would walk happily into the sunset/home.

Job 4: Factory Worker (night shifts)
Nature: Holiday
Location: Woodlands, I think.
Age: 17 or maybe in Uni, I can't remember
Rate: $7.50/13 an hour.

It was tough. Mother kept saying my cousin earned tons of money from working nights at factories. Felt like she wanted me to do so too, hence I did. Well, I was curious too. I wanted to try, so I very nearly died. It was tiring, and so sad because I would come home at about 8am, shower, sleep until 6, wake up groggy, have a quick dinner and go downstairs to wait for a bus ... and basically have little contact with family/friends. Phwa. But, it was interesting too, queuing up with the rest of the ladies (many people in Sg work very hard to earn a living, and i mean the blue-collared. they put in many tough, monotonous hours...and..), having a break at 3am in the morning, seeing first-hand cleanrooms and the extremely high standards of cleanliness (staff were wrapped top to toe), doing monotonous stuff until I thought I would either fall asleep or just banged my head onto those micro pieces of things (i can't even remember what it was I did..haha..probably fitting in a screw here or there into chips and stuff) and trying to smile happily in the wee hours :-).

I was doing the test runs for the hard disks because I was tall and could reach the top shelves and change them....
I really find it hard to believe I actually endured all those midnight shifts for .... a month?