Work??

Bah! Budgetting is a pain, but one that seems necessary.

I decided last night, having been serenaded Italian pop songs by my 3 Italian roomies, I decided I would look for a job today. Unfortunately an ideal web job a friend was going to get me fell through, which would have been sweet... $14/hour cash in hand for sitting on the PC for 70% of the time and just logging people in and out, aparently.

Wandering around and looking at various hostel travel boards, there's not much similar going - a lot of jobs go via word of mouth.

So I'm currently undecided whether I should look for work in Sydney, where there's presumably some work somewhere and I just need to look for it or go outback for some hard yakka (work) in the fields or move north soonish to near Brisbane to where their harvest season's just started. I'm edging towards not being stuck in an office or shop, which I could easily do in the UK, and being in real outback Oz, even if it's back breaking, aka character developing!

Then... just to put a spanner in the works, the elaborate yet truthful and yielding budgetting says I have 107 days left of wonga. I'm in Oz for 109 days... so should I just chill for a few weeks?? I theoretically don't have to work, and the budget includes more than just eating budget pasta, tomato paste and cheeze along with "Chikin' Biskits" for snacks - I could do a bungee jump per week on the budget.

The consequense of that future of mine is that I would be scraping the barrell towards the end of my trip, should there be some unforseen expenses/unwise decisions to drink cocktails not $10 for 4 litre boxes of wine. Plus there's a multitude of cool stuffs in Cairns, at the end of my Oz leg of this trip (diving, bungee jumping, whitewater rafting etc :D), so I almost need to spend the least now, more later...

If I was to work, then, say for a month in an average job, I'd get ($17 x 40hrs x 4wks) x 0.7 tax = $1904. And a bit more of a relaxed time on the rest of my journey.

Right, I'm going to see an exhibition about monkey faces after some sushi, then I'll read a book in the sunlight, surrounded by these birds. Took this pic yesterday in Hyde Park, central Sydney. They're as common in the parks as pidgeons and seagulls.