In Australia, we have this amazing thing (read my sarcasm) where people under a certain age are usually paid much less than us older folk.

For small, “very normal” jobs. Most of the people running these businesses will take advantage of this happy fact and, pretty much only hire kids for cheap (and often fire them soon as they reach adult wage).

Every...single call, they have asked how old I am before anything else. This has been my life for the last few days.

Yayyy.

(For the record, I finally did find a job XD)