Last weekend was fairly busy. I finally got round to building the wall beside the garage door. I’ve done this to try and stop the rain from being pushed under the garage door when the storms hit from the south east. When they come from this direction they are extremely fierce.
I’ve only lined the external wall as yet, simply because I ran out of time and plus the fact I was knackered. These villa board sheets are a wee bit on the heavy side. I haven’t done this kind of work for ages and it was good to get back to the tools. It came up not too bad and the window that I picked up earlier in the year looks good.
I’ve still got so many jobs around the house which I have been unable to get to because of work, but that might all be coming to an end very soon. My contract finishes on the 26th November and there is no guarantee that I will be kept on. In fact I think the job has been promised to someone else and the reason I think this is because I got a termination survey email sent to me to thank me for my time with the company and to also ask why was I leaving. An automated process but it would have been nice to actually have the line manager come to me first and give me the heads up, but he told me that he was completely unaware.
The area manager has been pushing for months for me to take up 15 builders accounts to increase sales and I have casually ignored it simply because there is more than enough work during the day to deal with and there ain’t no way I will be taking work home when I’m only on minimum wage, they can fuck right off.
And so I guess they will find some other mug more willing. I always knew that I was only here for 12 months and I thought that by this time the world would have been in a better state where travel was possible once more but as we all know, this is not the case. I wish to return to China and that is just not possible.
I would really like to work until next July and then pack my bags once more. If I don’t get kept on I will be able to survive without a job but I would rather keep the money I have squirreled away over the last 12 months. Mind you not all is lost; they still might keep me on.
If I can find part time work around 25 hours a week then that would be ideal. I would have more time at home to work on projects and still have money coming into pay the bills, so this is plan B. My original Plan B was to win lotto but this is now Plan C.
The local borders within Australia will be opening soon and if I get laid off then it will be a good opportunity to head to Sydney and catch up with a few old friends that I haven’t seen in donkeys. I’ll first have to get a wee bit of maintenance done on the old Ford but nothing too serious. It will be good to do a road trip again.