A sign asking for spare change changed Brian Wallace's life, after someone took a chance on him.
Having fallen on hard times, homeless and jobless, he found himself collecting money with a discarded pizza box.
That pizza box belonged to Rishi Sharma's Domino's business in Lower Hutt.
Learning Wallace's circumstances were a casualty of Covid-19, Sharma offered him a job - a hand up, rather than a hand out.
Wallace is now learning the ropes under the boss' watchful eye, with a once empty pizza box now filled with opportunity.
"He was very passionate and when I spoke to him, he looked very humble," Sharma told TVNZ1's Seven Sharp.
Rishi saw Brian using a discarded pizza box to collect money and offered him a hand-up rather than a hand-out.
"The main thing was his attitude, the way he was talking to me, and I thought I should ask him if he's keen to work for me."
Wallace says he's happy to be working again.
"To be offered a job just made my day," he says.
Watch the video for the full Seven Sharp interview.
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