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AUSTRALIA | Thu, 5 Nov 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [65]
I'm back in Broome. My house is full of
strangers. The weather is a hot liquid overcoat. I am no longer a underwater
porcelain technician. All of these facts painted a rather scary picture on my
return home. Particularly with the financial freedom ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 23 Oct 2009 | By nadscol | Views [30]
The time in Nottingham has flown, but to be honest I spent 95% of it looking forward to mum and dad coming over. Yes, it was a great job, good hours (overtime etc.), nice rate of pay, nice workmates, but really I’ve spent the last few months wanting ... Read more >
Tags: work
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 23 Oct 2009 | By nadscol | Views [35]
(March 2009) Sick again. It has not been a good year for my lungs; they have been through a lot and have been complete utter bastards to me this year. It’s Easter, 4 days off in a row and I have pleurisy. How do I know this is an old man disease-... Read more >
Tags: work
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 23 Oct 2009 | By nadscol | Views [34]
(March 2009) Just a quick one on my first foray into the world of professional bingo....well that’s what it felt like! I had previously only ever been to bingo a few times at the Wagga RSL back when I was at uni but I thought I knew the gist ... Read more >
Tags: work
CHILE | Tue, 20 Oct 2009 | By mcorak | Views [37]
10/19/2009 2:07 PM (10:07 AM) Hoy es lunes y es mi día primero de trabajo . I arrived at the pool at 9:00 am as instructed and vacuumed the pool. Gabriel, the pool guy, only speaks Spanish and I’m his little helper and I only speak English.... Read more >
Tags: home, work
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By nadscol | Views [52]
(Feb 09) So, Nottingham- first week, new job, usual jitters, usual cursing the fact that I miss my last job. Same thing happened when I started at Cheltenham and Winchester. But still- it was always going to be a grass is greener type situation. ... Read more >
Tags: work
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 | By jillafogle | Views [116] | Comments [3]
I've been in Australia for a month now. And while the first week was pretty hard, things have dramatically improved. And I'm thoroughly enjoying myself here. From Guam, I flew into Brisbane and spent a couple days there before spending a weekend ... Read more >
Tags: work, hike, sunrise
USA | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 | By godohell | Views [61]
There are very few words to describe how I feel right now. A mixture of excitement and terror would be understating the excitement and terror I'm feeling right now. Anxious does not even begin to describe my want to get the heck outta Dodge and my nervousness ... Read more >
Tags: work, germany, nervous, day before trip, lame
USA | Wed, 8 Jul 2009 | By jillafogle | Views [104] | Comments [1]
After temping at Covidien for the last 8+ months, I've learned some vital "corporate" lessons. The different sizes of file labels; which restuarants are the favorites for lunch deliveries; all things related to Microsoft Outlook; the cleaning, ... Read more >
Tags: work
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 7 May 2009 | By chiclet | Views [124] | Comments [1]
Det var ett tag sedan vi skrev nu. Livet knallar och går här nere på södra halvklotet. Jag kan skryta med att jag har slagit Jocke i vår långlivade backgammonturnering, med slutresultatet 100-86. Fast Jocke hävdar att det är något fel på mina tärningar ... Read more >
Tags: work, fall
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 4 May 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [145]
I'm worried that I'll appear boastful if I
continue to write about just how good life is in Broome. Not that the place is
exclusively my domain, as the rapid increase in tourist numbers can attest to.
This party has an open invitation and I gladly ... Read more >
Tags: work, partying, friends
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [151]
So I got myself a job as a 'dishy'. Not exactly evolving in the vocational scheme of things. Particularly when it's in a brewery, a place that offers the chance of rapid intellectual devolving. Aside from the universe again providing exactly what I wished ... Read more >
Tags: work, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [153]
Farmers should quake whenever they see me approach their fields. I
have the cursed touch of Midas' evil twin. All harvesting work I do
carves through profits like a one man economic wrecking ball. I am
the best thing to happen to any farms ... Read more >
Tags: work, on the road, misadventures
NEW ZEALAND | Mon, 2 Mar 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [137]
Sylvia and Oii bade us farewell early on the Monday morning – their schedule only allowed them another 2 weeks for the whole of the South Island and they had an early ferry to Picton. Our journey 5 minutes up the street was shorter but we ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, work, concert, carnival, rugby, flood
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 21 Feb 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [152]
Four days of work is a good enough
reason to have the whole following week off. It's not by choice, but
it fits in so nicely with my plans that I cannot believe my
subconscious desires did not play a part in it becoming a ... Read more >
Tags: work, beaches & sunshine, adrenaline
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [406]
The last few weeks of my Spring time adventure in Bowen have passed in a blur of activity and hijinx. Sometimes it's better to just experience life as it happens rather than seeing it unfold from behind a camera lens or writers pen. Sometimes I'm ... Read more >
Tags: party time, friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [268] | Comments [1]
6 night shifts in a row. A sudden and significant increase in temperature. Gauge measures 28.5 degrees in our dorm at 6am. Sleeping in daylight is 3 to 5 hours of fitful napping, punctuated by tossing, a constant sheen of sweat and loud room mates ... Read more >
Tags: work, party time, friends, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [321]
Isn't it funny how your opinion of a place improves when your workload changes from boot camp to boy scouts. One minute I am legging it to and fro like I've just discovered the ability to walk, and the next, I am lounging around working on my tan.... Read more >
Tags: work
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 19 Oct 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [283] | Comments [1]
Literary
productivity has dipped recently as hard work and hedonistic
pleasures have superseded creative output and coherent thought. Some
cosmic governing body decreed that frivolity and fortune seeking was
my new karmic currency after over ... Read more >
Tags: friends, philosophy of travel, work
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 5 Oct 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [222]
Not much changes here and hence, there isn't much of interest to write about. My last rambling post is proof of my efforts to make something out of nothing. When something interesting happens, I usually rush to my laptop to describe it for the friends ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party time, misadventures, work
JAPAN | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [237]
I didn't know what to expect here in Japan. But I didn't really think the streets would be so clean, the cars so small and people constantly folding in half. These guys are constantly bowing in greeting, farewell or just for the hell of it. Everyone ... Read more >
Tags: work, people, culture, language
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 | By homeless_harry | Views [236]
How do I manage to keep working in this tomato packing torture shed? The most likely cause is the amazing group of people I have had the good fortune to meet. Like abused siblings we rally together to help each other see the lighter side of working ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party time, work
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 | By alorraine | Views [187]
So I guess I'm going to have to get used to writing updates for this on the fly, but be strict about doing it - otherwise I'll forget it all and encompass it in a "aye it was nice and pretty" generalisation that I put down to my bad banter.... Read more >
Tags: festival, work
MONGOLIA | Sat, 12 Jul 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [235]
Work is taking me all over North Asia now and this time I needed a visa instead of an Alien's travel permit. First stop was a gold mine an hour and a half north of Ulaan Baatar where I had a couple of days working with some local guys. Mongol is one ... Read more >
Tags: work, culture
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 | By rachel_and_daniel | Views [372] | Comments [5]
After our less than successful trip to the beach, it was good to get back to Mastatal, even if the last part of the journey back was a trip in the back of what was effectively a cattle truck (picture big flat-top with a wooden frame), as the landslide ... Read more >
Tags: el rancho mastatal, work, futbol, frisbee
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