24 juli 2011

Update on my life

In short: Since a week I've been living and working in Brisbane.


Region where I work, The Gabba in the centre
Life in Burrum Heads was not meant for me. With an average age of 57 and no work around, I needed to get away. 
Phil and Angela, Kat's sister and brother-in-law were so nice as to offer me a room in their home, so I could start searching for a job. Phil got me an interview with Toll People, the employment agency of the Toll Group, last week and within a day I had a job in the centre-south of the city, near The Gabba stadium.

So now I'm working shifts from 3 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening, sorting all the invoices of all the Bunnings stores in Queensland that come in, digitizing them, putting them in mailbags and sending it off to the head office of Bunnings in Melbourne. And in the spare minutes I'm also digitizing some other projects.

It's no rocket-science, but the Toll-group I'm working for is a huge (and I really mean huge) company with a lot of opportunities, so I'm glad with that. The people I work with are nice people and we're on the same floor where all the mail of the 4 leading Australian banks come in, so it's always busy and open 24 hours a day.

Kat is still living in Burrum Heads, so we'll have a sort of weekend-relationship for the coming months, untill she moves to Brisbane as well. At this moment I'm in Burrum Heads and on monday Kat and I will head off to the Sunshine Coast to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. We're staying in a nice hotel and will make daytrips to Underwater World and Australia Zoo.


Because I have been able to buy my own laptop I will also be able to update my blog more often. Stay in touch!

2 opmerkingen:

  1. Hey Chiel! Really glad you found a job! Especially one with opportunities like this one! Enjoy your trip to Sunshine Coast and happy anniversary to both of you! Hope to hear more soon! Greetings from a rainy Holland (and that's what they call summer???)!

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  2. Chiel this is wonderful news !!!
    Brisbane seems like a nice place too.
    Heres hoping you and Kat have a great time, and that youe employment with the Toll Group leads to bigger and better things !!!

    And Moooooooooo. :)

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