Come Back Brighter

Another New Job, Sydney

Late last week, after a couple of days settling into my new job, I got a few calls from various recruitment people that I'd either dealt with the previous week or some of the stragglers a little too late to help. Except one. Jordan called me to ask if I was interested in a roll at a well known contruction firms flagship office in Sydney. Having heard about the company before, I was interested in knowing some more about the role and so went on with the conversation.

3days fast forward, and I'm running from my office near Town Hall to the underground train at 11.35am. Out at Wynyard station I carried on into the Rocks and onto the road the company is based on. My brief map research however had only showed me one side of the crescent shaped road which loops from one side of the harbour bridge to the other. I was walking for 25minutes, around 12more than I actually had to play with before the start of my big interview. I made an advanced call to apologise and things seemed okay once I met with the gents conducting the interview.

Over tea & coffee overlooking the harbour, they fired questions, and I answered them. It all seemed to go very well. Then it was time to make the dash back downtown from my "lunch with friends". I guess I should have tried harder to uphold the lie, but I couldn't resist walking back into the office with a fruit smoothie and slice of cake - which incidentally, no-one clocked considering they all knew where I'd "been". Several hours later, I received a call to tell me that the feedback from the interview had been "very good". My weekend was set to be a good one, with just my final offer to come through before I could throw in the towel early at my tedious role in State Government.

A typical Sydney Summer weekend followed; well, to be honest it started on Thursday night, carried on Friday through till Tuesday after the U2 gig.

Saturday was absolutely stunning though, and with the Sun, I helped Aaron with the pool maintenance in the morning before heading down to Coogee Beach at lunch time for a beachside BBQ and Frisbee-fest.

We tried to do the same on Sunday, but at Bronte beach. The weather was not as good and cloud cover kept things cooler than we’d wished. We did however make it to "Go-Low"! No, not a limbo institution, but a cheap shop selling all kinds of magical stuff. We picked up some inflatables for the pool, a hand saw, some chocolates and a santa hat. All for pennies! Random stuff you may think, and I'd have to agree, but the hand saw did help us massacre the neighbours tree overhanging the pool (it'd been dropping blossom and leaves in the pool clogging the filter, not just cos we were in a destructive mood!). When we were done, things were much better, and of course we got to feel like real men for all that sawing we'd done!