I’d earned money before – gardening for loose change, odd jobs with the Cubs, as a check-out chick at Woolies – but my first real job was in the Queensland Public Service straight out of school.
God help me, I was only 17, but it was here that I learnt two invaluable truths about government red tape: One, it actually exists, and two, it makes for excellent cricket balls.
Writer Karl Quinn around the time he worked in the Queensland Public Service.
I was a clerk in the Records Office of the Department of Employment and........