Wallace Trohear discusses his early education in Dundrum in Northern Ireland, as well as his first job as an apprentice carpenter with Joseph McClune & Son builders.
Vince Dobinson recounts an experience regarding his father struggling to find employment and secure a job. He discusses his school education and his first job.
Bob Gleeson describes how in 1962 he joined the Longreach Branch of the ALP and continued through his life to be very interested in politics. He states that his first job was at age 14 as rouseabout. He speaks about working in the shearing sheds and the regular contact with Australian Workers Union Organisers. He describes working in a number of gang jobs: cane cutting, sugar mills, builders labourer, droving, driving trucks, and shearing sheep.
Michael Weise talks about his childhood and early education, which took place primarily in the Darling Downs, Queensland. He discusses his early work experience prior to becoming a union member.
Howard Guille describes his early employment after leaving school at 15. He mentions his early union involvement in the industrial agricultural industry in Guernsey, England, in the mid-1960s.
Bill Marklew speaks of his work experience prior to joining the Army in bakeries and a foundry. He describes his motivation for joining the Army at 18 in 1972.
