So tomorrow I go and join my work mates in Shep tomorrow.
It's probably a good thing that I'll only be door knocking for most of the time I'm there. I can't imagine that there's all that much to do in Shep (besides get blind drunk for the whole time).
If I wasn't going to be door knocking (and annoying people [which can be fun]), I'd probably get straight back on the train as soon as I arrive there.
But if I can, I will try and get some pictures of the landmarks of Shep.
And if there's no famous landmarks there, I'll make up my own and make them famous.
Actually ... that sounds like a good idea. I might just do that anyway!
So, stay tuned, peeps, and I'll show you the new famous landmarks of Shep.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Centre Link
Centre Link offices really are the places hope goes to die.
There is only despair in them.
The people who go in there for whatever reason (usually forced upon them by Centre Link) have given up hope. They're now just doing their best not to sink any further, struggling to stay afloat ... I'd say hoping to stay afloat. But like I said, hope has died for these people.
Even the Centre Link employees seem to have given up hope.
I guess it would be depressing working in a Centre Link office. Being surrounded by that desperate despair. No sign of hope unless it's gone there to die.
Everyone just goes about their business, doing their best to hide their despair, praying that no one will notice.
There is only despair in them.
The people who go in there for whatever reason (usually forced upon them by Centre Link) have given up hope. They're now just doing their best not to sink any further, struggling to stay afloat ... I'd say hoping to stay afloat. But like I said, hope has died for these people.
Even the Centre Link employees seem to have given up hope.
I guess it would be depressing working in a Centre Link office. Being surrounded by that desperate despair. No sign of hope unless it's gone there to die.
Everyone just goes about their business, doing their best to hide their despair, praying that no one will notice.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Work and Exercise
I can't believe the difference four days of walking has made to my weight ... even with the weekend and the associated heavy drinking that's in the middle of those four days.
Yesterday I realized that I now HAVE to wear a belt with my pants. In the past I've been able to get away with not wearing a belt if I couldn't be bothered with it.
Not anymore!
But while this job is a good way for me to get regular exercise without having to get a gym membership (hey, no I can save money on that in the new year), it's not so good for my bung knee.
Yeah. I apparently have a dodgy knee. I don't know why or how. But after a couple of days of walking around town, knocking on doors all day it gets really sore and stiff and I can barely move it.
It's really annoying.
Not to mention painful.
And ... yeah, I don't know what else.
I just really hope it doesn't get any worse today.
Yesterday I realized that I now HAVE to wear a belt with my pants. In the past I've been able to get away with not wearing a belt if I couldn't be bothered with it.
Not anymore!
But while this job is a good way for me to get regular exercise without having to get a gym membership (hey, no I can save money on that in the new year), it's not so good for my bung knee.
Yeah. I apparently have a dodgy knee. I don't know why or how. But after a couple of days of walking around town, knocking on doors all day it gets really sore and stiff and I can barely move it.
It's really annoying.
Not to mention painful.
And ... yeah, I don't know what else.
I just really hope it doesn't get any worse today.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Door to Door Sales Person
So I rencently got a job. And about time!
It's nothing spectacular. In fact, it's probably the very opposite of spectacular ... unspectacular some might even say.
But the point is that I have finally got myself a job (so, hooray and all that for me!).
I'm now a door to door sales person for Austar ... ok, so the bossman calls it something else (can't remember what though), because the name door to door sales person really drags what we do through the mud ... but let's not get too concerned about nicties. Let's just call it what it is. I'm a damned door to door sales person.
I now get to annoy people in their homes, trying to get them to sign up to Austar.
At least I will once I get this stupid training out of the way.
The only thing worse than being a door to door sales person is training to be a door to door sales person. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOO fucking boring! I seriously hope that once I get out into the field things will start looking better ... or at least more interesting.
It's nothing spectacular. In fact, it's probably the very opposite of spectacular ... unspectacular some might even say.
But the point is that I have finally got myself a job (so, hooray and all that for me!).
I'm now a door to door sales person for Austar ... ok, so the bossman calls it something else (can't remember what though), because the name door to door sales person really drags what we do through the mud ... but let's not get too concerned about nicties. Let's just call it what it is. I'm a damned door to door sales person.
I now get to annoy people in their homes, trying to get them to sign up to Austar.
At least I will once I get this stupid training out of the way.
The only thing worse than being a door to door sales person is training to be a door to door sales person. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOO fucking boring! I seriously hope that once I get out into the field things will start looking better ... or at least more interesting.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Yeah So ...
As you might, or possibly, not have guessed, I've decided to start writing about my day.
Ok, so it may not be all that new of an idea! In fact one of the most unoriginalists ideas ever! But I totally have my reasons.
Not that I'm going to share ... at least not at this point in time.
But if you've been paying attention to my FB, Twitter and EP posts then you'l be well aware that I had a job interview today ... if you can call it an interview ... since the door to door salesman, Chris, totally pulled some strings for me well after the first interview or two, I'm not sure it can be called that.
But Whatever.
I was at the "Open Day" thing for the job today, which detailed what it was about (surprise surprise, 100% commission based work). It doesn't sound too bad. In fact it sounds quite cushy; I only have to make a sale a day at the very least, and I'll be earning around about $400 a week (more than I'm getting from Centre Link).
And if I make 30 sale, I'll get free Austar.
So guess what my sales aim is for the next 4 weeks?
I'm hoping (and assuming!) that I don't really have to tell you.
My fingers are totally crossed for landing this job. I know it requires a lot more effort than I really want to exert. But I should be used to this kind of shit; I mean, I'm a writer, right?
But this job will also hopefully give me some more insight into how people work, think and talk ...
Ok, so it may not be all that new of an idea! In fact one of the most unoriginalists ideas ever! But I totally have my reasons.
Not that I'm going to share ... at least not at this point in time.
But if you've been paying attention to my FB, Twitter and EP posts then you'l be well aware that I had a job interview today ... if you can call it an interview ... since the door to door salesman, Chris, totally pulled some strings for me well after the first interview or two, I'm not sure it can be called that.
But Whatever.
I was at the "Open Day" thing for the job today, which detailed what it was about (surprise surprise, 100% commission based work). It doesn't sound too bad. In fact it sounds quite cushy; I only have to make a sale a day at the very least, and I'll be earning around about $400 a week (more than I'm getting from Centre Link).
And if I make 30 sale, I'll get free Austar.
So guess what my sales aim is for the next 4 weeks?
I'm hoping (and assuming!) that I don't really have to tell you.
My fingers are totally crossed for landing this job. I know it requires a lot more effort than I really want to exert. But I should be used to this kind of shit; I mean, I'm a writer, right?
But this job will also hopefully give me some more insight into how people work, think and talk ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Racist Acts
Yeah, so I was just out the back having a smoke (yeah, I know it's a dirty habit), when I heard the sound of glass smashing. I looked down the street, where the sound had come from, and saw a couple of kids kind of half running, half hiding. Evidently eager to get away as fast as possible while not being seen.
It really didn't take much (if anything) to figure out just which window they had smashed; the milkbar.
It's not the first time the milkbar window has been smashed. It has been smashed two or three time in the last six months ... probably why the owners have decided to leave the lights on all the time.
But what gets me, is that the milkbar was never targeted until six months ago, when the Asian couple took over.
So I'm thinking that people are targeting the milkbar for a very specific, ignorant reason. And I'm sure you do too.
I don't know why people have decided to do this crap to the new owners. They are the nicest people ever. They're always smiling and so happy whenever I go into the shop. They make me want to keep going back and buying stuff from there despite the priceness of a milkbar, because they're just so happy.
And that makes the window smashing even nastier and bigoted.
All these morons are proving is just how ignorant they really are.
It really didn't take much (if anything) to figure out just which window they had smashed; the milkbar.
It's not the first time the milkbar window has been smashed. It has been smashed two or three time in the last six months ... probably why the owners have decided to leave the lights on all the time.
But what gets me, is that the milkbar was never targeted until six months ago, when the Asian couple took over.
So I'm thinking that people are targeting the milkbar for a very specific, ignorant reason. And I'm sure you do too.
I don't know why people have decided to do this crap to the new owners. They are the nicest people ever. They're always smiling and so happy whenever I go into the shop. They make me want to keep going back and buying stuff from there despite the priceness of a milkbar, because they're just so happy.
And that makes the window smashing even nastier and bigoted.
All these morons are proving is just how ignorant they really are.
We Need to Take Care of Our Own
It's time our government closed our borders to immigrants. Or at the very least, drastically slash the number of immigrants allowed into the country, and completely stop letting in asylum seekers.
Sounds terrible, doesn't it?
But hear me out before you start condemning me.
As you're probably very unaware, Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty in the world (last time I looked we were like the third highest). This is actually quite alarming as we Aussies like to think of ourselves living in the "lucky country."
Evidently this is the case for a few of us.
So clearly the government started throwing money at this problem, and improve EVERYONE'S standard of living ... at least those living in poverty and squalor. The rich really don't need their living standards improved.
And the best way to get this much needed money?
Why, simply using all of the money that is poured into immigration, particuarly asylum seekers and detention centres ... which won't be needed once we stop asylum seekers entering the country.
And don't even get me started on the government's plan to give $4000 of taxpayer money to asylum seekers to go back home and get work and/or start up a business!
Clearly those people fled their home country because of political reasons, not because they had no money! And if they did come here seeking asylum because they're too poor back home, then why haven't the poverty stricken people here jumped into boats to seek asylum elsewhere?
That taxpayer money (and I mean all of it that's spent on immigration) would be better spent here, fixing up communities that desperately need it, that are just breeding poorer and poorer people with each generation.
How are we meant to help these asylum seekers when we're not even taking care of our own?
At the moment the government is trying to do both, and is doing a half arsed job at both.
If the government could just focus on our own, then we could bring the ENTIRE country up to scratch, and then (and only then!)can we think about helping these asylum seekers. But not before!
And then maybe all of those abused kids in foster care might also get the attention they desperately need to live full and healthy lives. At the moment, they're just languishing in depressing circemstances, overlooked by the system.
Again, not accepting the asylum seekers would mean that there would be more money to be spent on child welfare, which would mean there'd be a lot less deaths in the system.
And it's not like I'm suggesting that we stop accepting asylum seekers forever. I'm just saying that we only stop accepting them until there is no poverty in Australia, and that everyone has very similar living standards.
That way when we do finally start accepting asylum seekers again, we'd be better able to help them settle down here, instead of just handing them their papers and throwing them into an alien environment.
Sounds terrible, doesn't it?
But hear me out before you start condemning me.
As you're probably very unaware, Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty in the world (last time I looked we were like the third highest). This is actually quite alarming as we Aussies like to think of ourselves living in the "lucky country."
Evidently this is the case for a few of us.
So clearly the government started throwing money at this problem, and improve EVERYONE'S standard of living ... at least those living in poverty and squalor. The rich really don't need their living standards improved.
And the best way to get this much needed money?
Why, simply using all of the money that is poured into immigration, particuarly asylum seekers and detention centres ... which won't be needed once we stop asylum seekers entering the country.
And don't even get me started on the government's plan to give $4000 of taxpayer money to asylum seekers to go back home and get work and/or start up a business!
Clearly those people fled their home country because of political reasons, not because they had no money! And if they did come here seeking asylum because they're too poor back home, then why haven't the poverty stricken people here jumped into boats to seek asylum elsewhere?
That taxpayer money (and I mean all of it that's spent on immigration) would be better spent here, fixing up communities that desperately need it, that are just breeding poorer and poorer people with each generation.
How are we meant to help these asylum seekers when we're not even taking care of our own?
At the moment the government is trying to do both, and is doing a half arsed job at both.
If the government could just focus on our own, then we could bring the ENTIRE country up to scratch, and then (and only then!)can we think about helping these asylum seekers. But not before!
And then maybe all of those abused kids in foster care might also get the attention they desperately need to live full and healthy lives. At the moment, they're just languishing in depressing circemstances, overlooked by the system.
Again, not accepting the asylum seekers would mean that there would be more money to be spent on child welfare, which would mean there'd be a lot less deaths in the system.
And it's not like I'm suggesting that we stop accepting asylum seekers forever. I'm just saying that we only stop accepting them until there is no poverty in Australia, and that everyone has very similar living standards.
That way when we do finally start accepting asylum seekers again, we'd be better able to help them settle down here, instead of just handing them their papers and throwing them into an alien environment.
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