job?

Alrighty folks – quick update on the Jess-meister. As you know from last time I have a job… well that isn’t entirely the case anymore. I don’t currently have a job. No, I didn’t get fired. I quit. I know that it isn’t much better, but it is. Seriously though, you should have seen me at my job. It was a joker broma. Also the people I was ‘working’ with were a joke as well. I worked in a team of 4 or 5. I’m not sure which it was because it there were 5 of us total on my training day, but then the next day one dude had quit. Then there was a French girl who spoke English pretty well, a 19-year-old kid from Georgia, me, and our group leader guy… who I honestly had no respect for. I tried, but I couldn’t respect him. It was a kind of weird sensation because typically I would say even if my boss is a goofus, I’d still respect him/her. This guy/kid though, I mean he was 22 – he wore ridiculous looking sweatpants because he was trying to look sportier because our contractor was fitness first – he had a dumb-looking green tattoo on the back of his neck – he pretended to be going out for beers every night I was around him – he’s never been anywhere in Australia outside of Sydney – and his sales pitch was a joke. He would literally ask every person that walked by, every person, even 100-year-old people, he would ask them if they had come from directly that way or around the corner of the building. They’d be so confused that they would either keep walking and shake their heads or stop and ask for a clarification. If they stopped, he would say – it doesn’t matter, what I do need to tell you is that there is a new fitness first opening up in 4 months across the block. Reading over what I wrote, it doesn’t make much sense… but let me assure you, he is ridiculous.

Be that as it may… I am currently on the market for a job again. And I’m not planning on working in face-to-face sales/marketing. It was horrible. I hated bothering every single person that walked by me. Anyway, I’m looking at working in the hospitality sector. Ya know – maybe to keep the streak going. Erin and Blindo are both working for restaurants and T is probably going to work for a hotel of some sort… so I guess I gotta as well. I’m going to get RSA (responsible service of alcohol) certified tomorrow, which is a boring 6 ½ hour long class that apparently (according to eMay and bLinder) is pointless and easy-peezy. After the class is over I’m running over to the Bavarian Bier Café, which I went by and gave my resume today. It seems like a pretty sweet little place. They have all sorts of awesome Bavarian beers and schnitzels and pretzels and crispy spicy squid and all things delicious. There’s also a café right down the street that needs help on weekends and I gave them my resume, and that’d be a nice little part time thing to make a little extra money (or just money).

Besides work… we’ve been doing some fun things. As Erin said, we went to the Australian Museum. It was fun. It got me so excited to go swimming with the sharks because it’s so unlikely I’m going to get eaten. Also, as Erin mentioned, her birthday was fun. I bought a cake pan so now we can make cakes whenever we want, and we finally figured out how to get the oven fired up, so we’re in business. Taylor and I went to a ‘working holiday expo’ today and it was fairly lame, except we learned that after we are done in Australia we can file to get money back on taxes and they will actually give it to us! Beyond that… there is some sort of program that aus has where they give us an extra 25% of our paycheck just because we are “living away from home”. Now I don’t really understand or fully believe that yet just because I got a 2 minute explanation from Betty and Susie at some tax stand, but even if it is only partially true it’s something fun to check into.

I’ve decided to start a little thing for every blog I finish and post. I’m going to give a shout out to one of The Rescuers’ readers – I know, kind of hokey and a cheesy ploy to get you to read to the end and see if it you that particular day, but hey, I’m doing it and you can’t stop me.


And now my shout out for the day…

Aunt Sandy – I think you may quite possibly be our most dedicated fan and I love getting your comments. You seem to be one of the first to read and comment for every single post. My aunt is so cool. Any big plans for the 5th wheel over the next couple of months? From the sound of things… it’s still quite nice in Dewey so you don’t even need to travel.


Ok that’s all I’ve got everyone – love you all and talk to you soon.

- Jesse “mmm, raspberry jam” Meredith

**update on the jobhunt** Today (Friday the 31st… Halloween) I did my RSA training course and afterwards went to the Bavarian Bier Café and talked to the big kahuna there. They are looking for help asap and got a load of applicants, but apparently I am exactly what they are looking for because I am – (a) not a skinny little girl, (b) not a skinny little boy, (c) on the working holiday visa, not the student visa, and (d) able to speak English. Both (a) and (b) are necessary because they have a lot of girls working there now and they need people to carry full/empty kegs up/down the stairs to/from the basement. (c) is a good one because I can work more than 2-3 shifts a week, and (d) is great because we’re in Australia and they speak some sort of English dialect here. Anyway, I’m going in on Tuesday for a 1-2 hour ‘test-run’ of sorts and if I do a reasonable job, I’ve got the job. So wish me luck. Thanks… that is all