Andrew Aigner-MuehlerLIVING OVERSEAS from my eyes.. INTRODUCTION
January 26th 2008 04:43
INTRODUCTION
I am starting this journey by telling you the reader my experience of living and working overseas and also comparing the standard of living from the countries I have visited to my home country of Australia.
Firstly, the reason I decided in packing up all my gear and marching overseas is that I am a traveler I have traveled overseas every year at least once a year since 1995 with a Contiki trip to the States, then followed by a trip to Japan and Hong Kong in 1996 that I won a competition to see Mariah Carey play live in Tokyo, also that year I went to Europe to do another Contiki tour, in 1997 I took a trip to Bali for a fortnight of partying and in 1999 I took a trip to Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.
Secondly, I was about to receive my pro-rata for completing seven years at Franklins No-Frills supermarket where I had started work from the bottom and work myself to a duty manager with the company sometimes working eighty hours a week. I needed a break and to start enjoying myself again, after living a life of stress. I remembered a comment from a former team mate at the Woodville baseball club David Kessner he said to me “the best thing he ever did was quit his job and not to be tied down by one job” that comment stuck in my head, and by reading this book you can see I actually used it.
Thirdly, the perfect opportunity came up one day when Eurostaff (a Dublin recruitment agency) advertised in The Advertiser, a national paper of South Australia for staff to live and work in Dublin in pubs. So, I applied for the job and I will say I wasn’t totally honest at the interview when they asked me if I had experience working in pubs, but I must have been believable because they took me on, I had the money and couple months later I was off to Dublin.
That flight to Dublin is one of the longest flight(s) I have ever flown, and still, is today. We flew from Adelaide to Sydney down to Melbourne up to Bangkok across to Frankfurt and then finally to Dublin which was to be our new home.
And this begins the start of the best thing I have ever done, NO REGRETS.
I am starting this journey by telling you the reader my experience of living and working overseas and also comparing the standard of living from the countries I have visited to my home country of Australia.
Firstly, the reason I decided in packing up all my gear and marching overseas is that I am a traveler I have traveled overseas every year at least once a year since 1995 with a Contiki trip to the States, then followed by a trip to Japan and Hong Kong in 1996 that I won a competition to see Mariah Carey play live in Tokyo, also that year I went to Europe to do another Contiki tour, in 1997 I took a trip to Bali for a fortnight of partying and in 1999 I took a trip to Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.
Secondly, I was about to receive my pro-rata for completing seven years at Franklins No-Frills supermarket where I had started work from the bottom and work myself to a duty manager with the company sometimes working eighty hours a week. I needed a break and to start enjoying myself again, after living a life of stress. I remembered a comment from a former team mate at the Woodville baseball club David Kessner he said to me “the best thing he ever did was quit his job and not to be tied down by one job” that comment stuck in my head, and by reading this book you can see I actually used it.
Thirdly, the perfect opportunity came up one day when Eurostaff (a Dublin recruitment agency) advertised in The Advertiser, a national paper of South Australia for staff to live and work in Dublin in pubs. So, I applied for the job and I will say I wasn’t totally honest at the interview when they asked me if I had experience working in pubs, but I must have been believable because they took me on, I had the money and couple months later I was off to Dublin.
That flight to Dublin is one of the longest flight(s) I have ever flown, and still, is today. We flew from Adelaide to Sydney down to Melbourne up to Bangkok across to Frankfurt and then finally to Dublin which was to be our new home.
And this begins the start of the best thing I have ever done, NO REGRETS.
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