17 September 2008 - job hunting

31st August

Today we bought a newspaper in order to start the job hunting,, it seemed like a good idea to be getting on with it whilst we were waiting for the van to be fixed. I rang up a few of the ads to get an idea of what was on offer. One of the fruit picking ads seemed promising so I arranged to meet the man who had placed the ad, as it happened he was only based inn the next town so it made sense to meet him today before we headed south to get the van fixed.

I don’t quite know how to describe the meeting, we met him at his house which looked more like the tip on the industrial estate, than a place anyone actually lived or even would want to spend more than a minute in. So we left and did not plan on returning, it turned out that the man was a agent who set up work for people and housed them in an equally disgusting house a few doors down!!

After that disappointment we drove down to the gold coast, we had been told to go there to get the van fixed which seemed rather stupid as it was about 100km from where we had broken it but hey we went along with it any way.

We arrived late afternoon and found the shop which was on an industrial estate, it worked out well as they had parking spaces behind the shop so we stayed there for the night, so we would be there first thing.