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Its been a while since my last blog, due to the fact that my working hours of late have been long and arduous. I have found little time or energy to spend any of my freedom using any kind of technological device. Anyone who has a desk job will know that spending your working life infront of a screen inputting data, and repeating a very inflexible script over the phone, makes you want to do anything but open up your laptop when you walk through the front door of your home at the end of the day. I'm sure people at this stage will be thinking why? why are you working such long hours? why aren't you just having fun and working casually? Completely understand your viewpoint and to be honest you're right. The only problem is, we live in real life and not on Made in Chelsea, I don't at least. I am not the self proclaimed 'boy' Jamie Lang, heir to the Mcvitie fortune or his supposed best mate, the charming Spencer Matthews (Thank God i'm not him). No, the reality is that the world, and Sydney in particular it seems, is very costly. Its all very well saying you should come over here to travel and do little else, but I do wonder at times where peoples heads are at when they suggest such things. Chloe and myself saved a lot, but if we went on simply just travelling now, spending the bare minimum on hostels and cheap food, we could probably last a month at most. The work may be tough but it is totally neccessary and will be well worth all the graft once we go for our suggested road trip up the East Coast in February. The job has its perks too, we were taken out for a decent lunch last Monday, and there are occasional cash incentives too. I have to boast here that I managed to win the first of these in my department, $50 for consistently exceeding targets. Not a lot of money I know, but gives you some motivation to get through the monotomy. Sadly I think many Brits that work in this country, one such in my organisation don't seem to have that concept of hard work. All the people I've met seem to do nothing but moan about how bad England is, one describing it as 'going to the pitts' and complaining that there are no jobs. Someone please tell me are things that bad? is it the country or is it them? I for one would say it is the latter. As extreme as it may sound, it irritates me when I hear the phrase 'there are no jobs,' there are always jobs, there are sometimes less, but there are always jobs there for you to get, its up to you, nobody else. It makes me think that many of those Brits who arrive on Aussies shores, see the place as almost a land of opportunity. There are more jobs suited to unskilled and uneducated people here, that much is true, yet the idea that they can just go off to Australia and find themselves a new life, like some of their ancestors may have done in times of colonisation is as as prepostrous as the idea that you can have a gap year of travel without working. These people would do well to sort themselves out before pointing fingers and bad mouthing the country that gave them all the opportnities they could possibly ask for.
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