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My first real job, when I left university (the first time), was teaching science and mathematics in a Catholic high school in Perth. Shortly after taking up this position, I came to a slightly shocking revelation: I was making more money than my dad, a man who had been working full-time in a variety of jobs since he left school, when he was fifteen years old.
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Forsey, M. (2015). I Didn’t Work for it. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_2
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