So, let me start at the beginning of December...
Dane and I moved house again, sort of. We were asked to housesit for some family of friends while they were on holiday for a month, so one the 5th of December, we moved into their 4 bedroom double storey house in Reedy Creek. The same day that we moved in, I had an interview with a company called The Australian Stock Investment Group for the position of Marketing Manager. 10 days later, I started work!
Finally, a job - and an amazing one! After all the trouble I had in London trying to find work, I am unbelieveably surprised to have landed with my bum in so much butter in Australia. I am working for a stock investment company (if the name hadn't given it away) as the Marketing Manager. It is a new position and I am still finding my feet in it, but the pay is good, I have my own office with a huge desk and windows, and I am in charge of the Telemarketing department. Yes, I am part of the management team. Scary stuff for someone who didn't even study marketing! Oh well, I can wing it and learn as I go along, as I always do.
So, I started working on the 15th of December - 3 days that week, and then 3 days the next, before the office closed on the 23rd for the Christmas holidays. Sweet, 6 days of work and then 2 weeks holiday again - did I mention bum in the butter?
This is a picture of my office and the Telemarketing department....
I have been with The ASIGroup for nearly 2 months now, and I am slowly settling in. I have redesigned the website and I am focusing very much on the internet marketing side of things, getting press releases out, working with Google AdWords, etc. There is so much to do though and it is quite a lot to get my brain around, but I will get there.
It feels so good to have money coming in again after nearly 6 months of living off my savings. I hadn't yet reached the point of broke, like I did in London, but it was a huge relief to start work with some money in my savings account already, not starting from scratch.
I now feel like I have my own role in my life in Australia, rather than just piggy backing on Dane's. I have people that only I know, I have a space that is just mine, I get to spend 2 hours in the car by myself each day - I have my own life. It's a liberating feeling.
Since I have started working everything else just seems to be falling into place, and I finally feeling like I live in Australia, that this is my life, rather than just window shopping through it. I think the next important part of that story is Chirstmas and the holidays, but I will deal with that in my next post...
