Michael went for two more job opportunities in Marrickville (carpet factory) & Sydenham (gift box factory) today and the chance to get the job in carpet factory seems optimistic because the reuqest is nothing more than hard working, diligent and capable of driving manual gear cars. The hourly pay is $18 before tax while the gift box demands girl and pay $15/hour. I went for clothing shop interview in North Sydney and the shop is just cross the street in historic shopping mall (according to the shop's owner, it has 150 histories!!) called "greenwood plaza". The owner Any isn't there and it's her husband did the interview. I'm disappointed to learn that the hourly pay might be just above $10 as the husband keep telling me that only the experienced sales get the minimum legal pay which I hardly believe so. Also, it's a bit unbelievable that he said that Chinese has their own rules on the hourly pay. I think it's so wrong that we should instead help our people to get a higher pay, not trying to explain that we should follow what we got in Chinese. (lower payment!!) Shouldn't we rise ourselves and try to keep up with and even surpoass westerners? Anyway, I gave myself a try (for free) in that clothing shop and realized that I might have a hard time assimilate into the western way of life because the other two senior girls seem quite easy to talk with customers and lit up the conversation. In fact, I think it's a challenge for me and the job presents with a chance of practicing my english. I would assume myself picking up the pace very soon if I've been given more time on this. I also knew that from deep of my heart, I would prefer being a waitress which might be ealier and more interesting. I'm still out of work, haha...I think I really need to try first without considering payment, so I might go for 新上海 and try to learn being a waitress before my imaging to serve australian in those glitz riverside restaurants in Darling harbour or Circular Quay. North Sydney by the way is way more fancier than Ashfield or Burwood and it's more like Taipei 信義區. No wonder CISCO OZ HQ is located there. I'll think to browse more around the neighborhood next time. Today we bought my trail my multi one day pass and chose to risk ourselves buying a "student" ticket which is half the tag price 21, so we paid 10.5 / person and get all the tickets for whatever the transporations (train, bus, ferry) and whatever the distance. After selling clothing for 1 hour, we went to catch the ferry to Watsons Bay. It's a long way (but it's just our second time taking Sydney ferry) from Circular Wharf to Watsons Bay, about 20 mins I guess and there're three other mid stops before to the final stop. Along the way, the most outstanding scene is the ubiquitous sailboats on the sea and the serene feeling about them. Except I have little appetite for the wind, I do love the uniqe view and the small bay town. We then took bus 324 to edgecliff rail station to return to town hall and took another transfer to chatswood for Michael's another try in 新上海 for another position which is same in preparing materials for 小籠包 chef. The restaurant is located in the mall and it appeared that the job is much ealier than in Ashfield's kitchen. The hourly rate is the same but Michael decided to go for it and earning some money before he actually got a stable high pay job in either factory or housekeeping. He is really tired and fell asleep on bed without bedquilt covered.
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