Clarity

I’ve finally rounded the blind corner that felt never-ending and all that I can see on front of me are blue skies, and lazy sunny evenings…

Australia has suddenly taken on the kind of life I had hoped it would through a full-time job and the enormous financial freedom that comes with it. I can plan trips, over indulge, and best of all, I can wake up in the morning and for the first time ever know that I really and truly love my job. Most jobs I’ve undertaken to date have been satisfactory, but I justified most of them to myself by saying ‘This will look really good on my C.V.’. And yeah, this one will too but this time, instead of saying to myself ‘Stick it out for 6 months’, I wake up and think ‘Today is Tuesday. I get to design something new.’ And I don’t think past dinner time.

If I get to go home after a year of being in Australia then that’s great. If I get to stay here longer through my job? Also great. Right now, my main concern is this moment, wondering how many little lines of randomness I’m going to write before I realise no-one will probably read this…but I’m going to continue anyway, cause I’m on a roll.

So, basically what’s been happening over the last few weeks is that I started a ‘proper’ job, and experimented with the concept of doing this along with a bar job that I’ve been in since January. I liked the bar job but I suddenly had an epiphany whereby I realised that I didn’t travel half way around the world to work Monday to Friday in an amazing web design job, and then get really annoyed at weekends when I had to go and work again. As you can probably tell from the use of past tense, the bar job is no more. As of today. I made a promise to myself about 5 years ago that I’d never ever work a weekend again. Out of sheer necessity, I broke that promise when I first arrived here and now I’m going to make it up to myself! In a funny twist of fate, it now seems that my social calendar is quite full for the next few weekends, causing me to think that perhaps I could do with an extra source of income temporarily. If I had the bar job, I wouldn’t have free weekends and so wouldn’t need the money. Funny how things work out…

So, I’ve rounded the corner and it’s a long straight road from here for the next couple of months. I have a feeling there might be some interesting stops along the way though, and I’m really excited about them!