I've worked on the day for years, job or not. A couple of elections ago, when I was unemployed too, I worked the the two weeks afterwards as well, doing recounts and checking at electorate HQ. I'm not sure they'd have as much work this time as a lot was putting all the people marked on rolls as having voted on one electorate master, and that's now done by scanning. It was a good lurk, though finding and removing all 6 votes a smart-arse student made was a right pain.