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🥝 Kiwifruit Picking in New Zealand (Working Holiday Job) – New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year - YouTube
Channel: NZ Pocket Guide
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today we are showcasing what is probably
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the most iconic industry New Zealand is
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the kiwifruit peeking
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if you are the working holiday visa
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right here in New Zealand chances now
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that you are going to be joining the
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kiwifruit industry this is one of the
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largest employer in the country and this
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is one of the easiest kind of job to get
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so we decided to do something a little
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bit different today and take you in the
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heart of the kiwifruit industry through
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the eyes of heaps of backpackers which
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are working there to fund their travel
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around this amazing country what better
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place to learn about the kiwi fruit
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picking industry than the kiwi fruit
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capital of New Zealand which is two
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pockets just outside of the city of
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Teranga but the most important question
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is how much money are you actually
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getting paid they can make good money so
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we put them first day on them obviously
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on a lower rate the second day they know
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how to do the job so it's up to them if
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they want to pick Mars and properly as
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what we are over the bins for is to make
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sure the jobs get done right then they
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go on to the horror write long story
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short we did walk around and ask those
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back like us how much money they are
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actually making out of kiwi fruit
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picking they are paid per being that
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they are filling up as a team it's kind
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of a pro rata system and at the end of
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the day they all told us that they were
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making between eighteen to twenty three
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dollars an hour which is a pretty good
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pay knowing that the minimum wage in New
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Zealand is around $16 per hour but that
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only applies to green Kiwi fruits every
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type of fruit around New Zealand has a
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different pay system for instance the
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gold Kiwi foods are much more fragile so
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it's actually been longer to pick them
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and then they usually pay per hour at
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this point so if you guys are planning
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on working in the fruit picking industry
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in New Zealand make sure to hurt you
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back back together and said we have
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plenty of article explaining in detail
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what are the kind of pay scheme that you
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can expect in a different kind of
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picking job that you can do in New
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Zealand it's really insightful so you
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know basically what you are getting
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yourself into but more than the pay the
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reason why those kind of jobs are so
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popular amongst backpacker is because it
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usually a really friendly job when you
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meet a ton of runs when it gets like
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this you feel pregnant because everyone
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needs to work as a team to fill up these
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bins as quickly as possible in order to
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get paid as much as possible there's a
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real sense of team camaraderie amongst
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the group making for a super fun
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atmosphere pretty empty in there Wow you
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need this at home you can have everyone
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that we're working with right now are
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actually staying in the same hostel as
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us at the Pacific Coast Lodge because
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the Pacific Coast Lodge is actually a
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working hostel in mark manganui meaning
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that if you stay with those guys they
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can help you find a job like this one
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around the Turanga area on top of that
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they also usually organise the
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transportation making it super easy if
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you travel around New Zealand without a
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car to make it to work but there is not
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just food picking job there is a ton of
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other job in the kiwifruit industry and
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we are heading to major Factory
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we all live I'm Yuki
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so this Kiwi bird was a reject from the
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line but it is said to be the
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sweetest-tasting kiwi fruit it just
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doesn't look that pretty
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so the kiwi fruit people they kindly
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gifted us our own rejected Kiwi we will
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cherish it for as long as it will last
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I'm gonna eat that thing tonight for
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sure
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next on these 322 part 2 we are
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following those kiwi fruit that we
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picked up this morning tour while
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they're packing factory we're gonna see
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the entire process of putting them into
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boxes which is another super popular
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backpacker job right here in New Zealand
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will show you all the ins and outs and
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on top of that we're also gonna try this
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infernal cabins of packing them check it
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out tomorrow
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I think I've got enough so you can just
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stop whenever you want from in oh you
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don't have to stop
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