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It's not good money unless you're a gun picker and I never saw any of the Brit backpackers that were gun pickers. Most would smash a day, be totally fucked, spend all their money that night on beer (and the sunscreen they forgot as three layers of skin peels away) and not return to the job, presumably asking M&D for more money as there was "just no work for me"...
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Yeah, I never really understood why it's such a common job for backpackers as in mainland Europe it's seen as typical exploitation work, hence why besides backpackers you only ever see illegal immigrants working there. Maybe it's different in places like Australia where this seems so common, I don't know.
Zebra
A summer picking fruit for beer money whilst traveling to one of the colonies doesn't really compare to staring down the barrel of years of unsecured, underpaid seasonal work in a place you're probably not planning on sleeping in hostels or leaving entirely come winter.