Well - Australia is bloody expensive, and my funds are running far lower than I had anticipated! This leaves the only option for me to throw myself at as much work as possible...And whilst I would love to be picky about what I am doing, this is a luxury reserved for people who have a lot more time on their hands - I have been given a month to try and plump up my funds! I have already gone into my “South America Budget” and this part of my trip only starts in Jan!!
Nothing like a bit of desperation to get you firing on all cylinders…
I have signed up with 2 offices agencies which look for office based support roles, 2 hospitality agencies which cater to huge variety of clients and then also a catering company which does private events. Plus I have still managed to keep my bar work at the live music gigs. So I have had variety of variety of colourful jobs which include:
• Data entry for a large international company (name omitted for legal reasons) - so boring the highlight of the day was my coffee expeditions which took me on a walk to the other side of the office to use the "fancy" coffee machine. I can confirm that not only does excessive coffee consumption result in heart palpitations but it also has somewhat of a laxative effect. Something I saw as a plus as it took me away from the shackles on my stark prison like temp desk, for yet a second expedition. This job was for 8 agonising days.
• Working at an event for a leading drinks brand - a lot less exciting than it sounded, I mean what type of a company has one of these during the day, serving alcohol then expecting everyone to go back to work afterwards....? A company that has a legitimate breathalysing machine in their reception, that’s who has these! They were serving a wonderful variety of amazing looking snacks. I disregarded strict company policy and sampled a good amount of these… skilfully cramming the whole bit sized canapés into my mouth whilst turning corners or moving into sneaky spaces where I knew I wouldn’t be spotted. I almost got busted by one of the attendees and was forced to stuff a slightly large mini pie.. it was a lot drier and larger than my eyes told me, and for a second I thought I was going to cough the whole thing out sending splattering pie crumbs and pieces all over the wall I was facing. Fortunately there was half drank glass of Sav Blanc at hand and I managed to dodge catastrophe…
• Working at a theatre company giving out pensioner’s free tea and cake, those old biddies sure can pack away a bit of cake - and the venom when I ran out cake!!
• My personal favourite and potentially the highlight of my hospitality career - making hotdogs at a huge sports stadium for a massive Ozzie rules footy game. Not just any hotdog – a BIGdog… I think I made about 400 of the fucking things. I also had some 17 year old gay little man bitch snivelling at my inability to fold the hot dog bags correctly once packaging them. He was literally about 17 and thought that being a hotdog supervisor made him VERY important. He kept on coming over to me and kind of cheering “Yeah Sarah, there you go – now you got the hang of it…” I mean really – it’s making a hot dog, not bloody micro surgery…??????????! I had a momentary fantasy of taking a piping HOT BIGdog sausage from its bun and using it to repeatedly slap his greasy little face with it… But alas I held my composure.
• I also worked in the board rooms of this huge Law firm serving fancy big wigs refreshments whilst they either had meetings or soirees with clients... They have a whole catering department of about 20 people employed purely to pamper the employees and occasionally clients! The amount of money that must cost!! Everything was state of the art in their kitchens - and this was actually one of my highest paying jobs...ridiculous, that firm must be robbing people blind!!! They did have one of their employees commit suicide by lobbing himself off the building about a year ago, so clearly the pressures of working there are not light! Money – does crazy things eh?!
• I also worked at the racecourse in their banqueting dept. This was quite a fun day, worked in one of the boxes and served 2 large tables. Unfortunately I learnt by the end of the day that the people I was serving were in fact NOT wealthy folk of the TIPPING varietal and had merely won the tickets to the event or something. So my outrageous flirting, overly attentive service, and borderline psychotic smile I had plastered on my face all day was NOT rewarded with 50 dollar bills being stuffed into my pockets.. A fun day none the less though…
• Working at the live music venue which is still on-going. Possibly the most disorganised venue I have ever worked at in my entire life, alongside one seriously common deranged and nasty crack whore type woman, that delights in trying to make my life difficult. But she just gets into trouble because she fucks up her work and the boss likes me… I just smirk at her which I can see gets right underneath her skin… HAHAAHA. The joys! Anyway - the job pays cash and it’s just for another few weeks, so bring it on lady!
• Covering someone on sick leave at a reception post for a week and a half (doing this right now). Mundane job which involved dealing with the switchboard and also sending and receiving parcels...relatively simple and has the bonus of giving me massive chunks of time to surf the net and muck around on email etc. My favourite job so far woohoo!
And that’s about it so far - still have some work coming up. One job is at a bar set up for a massive Asian Food festival which should be yummy and then a few bits here and there. Getting very much over Australia at the moment - the weather is shit at the moment, and if I had more money in my pocket I would have left weeks ago.
Still have a couple more things I want to do in Sydney - one is going to the Hunter Valley Wine Region on a day tour and the other is going to a Koala sanctuary. I also have a few bars and restaurants I want to sample.... so we shall see. Please DEAR GOD let the weather improve!!!!
I am here in Sydney for just another 2 weeks, then it’s off to South Australia again for a week, then over to ASIA!!! Woohooooo!!!
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