[Marie P]

My 16 year old daughter needs to raise some money for a School trip to Fiji ...........her christmas job at a shop didnt earn her many dollars ............only jobs advertised at the moment are for strawberry pickers .

Anyone done this ,what did you earn,do you get paid by how much you pick ???????????

Thanks .

Marie x

[pinkpiggy]

Don't know about in NZ but BBB did this in UK when he was but a young man, many many moons ago. The only thing he's ever said was that it was back breaking work.

[JandM]

I haven't done it as work, but I remember strawberry picking for our own use at a market garden. Yes, it was back-breaking because of bending to the plants, and you were having to crawl underneath the nets they had in place to keep the birds off.