Australian PM once cleaned toilets
July 31st, 2009 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 31 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Friday said he once worked as a cleaner at a sawmill, “cleaning the loos”.
Rudd spoke to Fairfax Radio about his worst job experience, in support of Employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib’s call on generation Y not to be too fussy about their first jobs.
He recalled his days when he roughed it out cleaning toilets, The Age reported Friday.
“There’s a global recession underway, collapsing economies around the world … therefore let’s just adjust to it flexibly and that might mean right now you don’t have a job that’s your heart’s desire; maybe it’s a stepping stone to something else.”
Rudd said the jobs that paid his way after he left school included flipping hamburgers, working on hospital wards as well as in a supermarket and serving beer in a pub.
“What was the most difficult one? The job I once had as a cleaner at a sawmill, cleaning the loos. It’s part of growing up doing different things,” Rudd told Fairfax Radio.
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