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It has been far too long since I have updated this blog so I thought seen as I have pulled a sickie of work I should use my time productively to inform any of you who still bother to check the blog of my current where abouts. Well as you can see I havent exactly got very far since Claire and parted ways, infact I've not really gone anywhere at all. This is because for the past 6 weeks I have been employed in the oh so glamorous position of door to door salesperson.
This is the worst job I have ever had, or ever will have. I basically spend my days being driven to some random suburb of Brisbane then spend the next six hours knocking on peoples doors asking them if they want a discount on their electricity, to which most peoples response is no followed by either shouting at me or slamming the door in my face. Needleless to say my motivation to work quickly dwindled as I realised that being out on your own means you can quite easily spend a large majority of your day sitting on your arse in the park and nobody will know. Once I found out that many of my team also spend the day on their arses and that its alot more fun when you meet up with somebody it has pretty much been down hill from there to the extent that the office manager actually wants me fired but my team manager wont let him (theres not really much point firing someone who leaves in three days and also my team manager hates the job as much as I do and will quite often meet up with me on turf even though your supposed to be instantly dismissed for doing this).
In fact the only thing which has prevented me from quitting is the social side of the job (its certainly not the money because they completely con you and dont pay you for sales you have got). I have met so many really cool people over the past few weeks who I am going to be so sad to leave, alot of them are actually from the UK and I will definantely be meeting up with them when I get back but my friends from Australia I know I am pretty unlikely to ever see again which is really strange and really sad.
The past few weeks have gone so quickly and have consisted mainly of me working then hanging out with people from work, which has actually been really good fun and I have had such a laugh that if I was to do this again, I would still take the crappy job just because I have had so much fun with the people I have met.
So I only have 2 more days of working then I am heading off with Claire, Stacey and Rich from work and I am hitching a ride in their campervan (called Vicky) up to Fraser island to go on a tour with them. Theres only enough seats for three people in Vicky so I will be spending a ridiculous number of hours spread eagled on their bed, which is actually a bit of dodgily balanced ply wood on some boxes, which I will be sharing with 4 backpacks and a surf board then at night I will be sharing a tent on the side of the road with claire. Its going to take quite a while to get up their so we are stopping off a Australia zoo and bundaburg to do the rum tour on the way. I cant wait to get going its going to be such a laugh and hopefully we will get to the whitsundays for my birthday, which would be amazing.
I know this is a pretty short blog considering I havent written anything for 6 weeks but it would just take too long to write about everything. I will try and keep ontop of the blog now I'm actually going to be travelling again but I cant make any promises given Im going to be sleeping in a tent not a hostel!
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