Sydney : Day to Day (First Day at Work)

Got woken up at 530am by Dan fumbling around tryin to get ready for his first day at work, literally fell straight back to sleep though.

Got up and got some Museli down me and headed for Central Station, had to catch a train to were this job interview was (its was out at Paramatta) as I was standing in the queue for tickets and my phone started ringing...Its was Dennis, he had a job for me, over in north Sydney (that's on the other side of the harbor bridge to me) 95 union street. Quickly headed back to the hostel and changed into my work gear, and headed to Dymocks Building, needed to buy some work boots (as I didn't have any) then I needed to buy some thicks socks....Finally got on the way to Wynyard train station, these trains run to the north shore....Trains canceled for 2days!!! Great, but they were runnin a free bus service for the inconvenience, got off the bus in North Sydney and started to look for the street my direction began from, asked a couple of people...They didn't have a clue, then asked this courier chap, he got his A-Z out and he showed me were I had to go. Just before I got the job I changed into my boots and got rid of the evidence that they were brand new (not that the shininess of them gave it away) found the job and all you could hear was jackhammers and this generator, I walked in and saw this old guy Ron, he started talkin to me, to be fair I didn't hear a word he said, but I caught the gist of what he was askin from what he was pointin at, he gave me some ear defenders and away I went. These 2 guys on Jackhammers were excavating this area of sandstone about 30meters by 15, 1.5 meters deep (Ron told me that there was about 40 tones of sandstone there) and I was shifting what they bust up to this other area were a bobcat was moving it to a flatbed....I was soaked through in about 10minutes, sweat was pouring off me!!! It was mid 30's outside and it felt about twice that under this building despite the industrial fan extracting heat. Wasn't long before a got my first couple of blisters, but to be honest you didn't really have time to think about flimsy blisters, lunch came round in no time, went for a king burger round at the local burger place, then back to the site, had a chat with the blokes and then we got bk to it. By the end of the day, they most of the Jack hammerin out of the way, we had a quick tidy up, and then I was offski's got back to the bus stop just in time, infact I was the last person they let on so I had to stand at the front, not that I was in any mood for standing, but it ment I was first off the bus, had rubbed a sore into the back of each of my feet from my new boots. Got off the bus on York Street and Margaret, got back got cleaned up and headed to Scruffies for a Steaka and beer with the lads, then we headed to Paddy Maguire's (not sure of the spelling???) to have a beer with this lad who's birthday it was.

Anyway didn't do much that nite, bit of readin, still living in skintville lol.

speak soon :)