Before Steve Cheers was at Powerpoint Music on Bong Bong Street in Bowral, he had a stint as a milk truck driver as his first job.
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Mr Cheers’ first job was driving a milk truck around Parramatta, which the then 17-year-old juggled with his year 12 studies.
“I lasted a month. I had to get up at 3am to start at 4am,” he said.
“I had an incident of knocking over a stack of milk crates with the track at the depot. I found driving the truck quite a challenge coming in and out. “They said ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you’.”
“I didn’t enjoy getting up early, but driving early in the morning in 1981 was quite an interesting experience,” Steve Cheers said.
“There were quite a few interesting characters.”
Mr Cheers said while his first job had some downsides, it was a good experience. “I didn’t enjoy getting up early, but driving early in the morning in 1981 was quite an interesting experience,” he said.
“There were quite a few interesting characters.”
Cheers also had a one-off gig at a private party with one of his bands at the age of 16.
“I’ve always been in bands, I was 16 when I had my first gig,” he said.
“I was so nervous I warmed up all day then I couldn’t sing.”
The band was paid $100, and the money was split between five people.
After this experience, Cheers focused on his tertiary studies in psychology and teaching at Macquarie University.
His first job outside of university was teaching in Greystanes in Western Sydney.
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