Posted by Ian M on October 13, 2020, 1:51 pm, in reply to "Walk away...."
Yes, I will be before too long, just setting up the next attempt. I applied for a bunch of paid positions at the start of the year but didn't get any of them, so it was a toss-up between this one and doing fruit-picking with the east europeans. Maybe I made the wrong choice, dunno... Have spoken to several others who are starting out in growing and they all say the same thing about being stuck in the annoying limbo of low/no-pay for a number of years until they got enough experience and/or were lucky enough to land something waged - usually minimum. Part of me thinks it's fair to require that kind of apprenticeship time, but it seems one full season is adequate and after that it's taking the piss. I think I'll get in touch with LWA and see if they're interested in acting as a union over this...