My Second Job

You're probably wondering why I haven't blogged in a while, well wonder no more because I have the answer to that question! The answer is in the title, I've got a job now and thats been taking a bunch of my time, more than half of my day actually, which is ludicrous, so I'm just going to go on a riff now. *tunes guitar*

My last post about my unfortunate work mishap, but the next week on the Tuesday (day of Passion) I got a call from work asking if I could start the next day, which I said I could. It didn't help that Passion ended at 11pm and I arrived home at 1am, needing to wake up at 5am, giving me 4 hours sleep, so I didn't look too great for my first day at work.

Basically the job at Link Market Services involves opening up mail for our shareholder clients and sorting them into trays for our companies. So its a very repetitive, pretty much mindless job and I'm alright with that because its a temporary job, lasting a few weeks. How many weeks exactly is unknown at this point, it seems that it'll end when a bulk of the mail stops coming in, as this time of year is apparently busy with mail, hence the need for casuals.

Now to break up observations by points, for easier reading because I write too much.

• When I applied for my job at Datacom I didn't know I would be working for Telstra, so it was a suprise that when working for Link Market Services I started off opening mail for Telstra.
• I work from 7am till 5pm, with a 15 break at 8:30am, then lunch at 12:30pm, so in a day I get paid for 9.5 hours of work, if I take a 30 minute lunch break. Money is good, so I usually aim for 30 minute breaks.
• Waking up at 5am, then getting home at around 6pm means more than half my day is dedicated to work, whether its actual work or travel.
  
• Unlike most people who just go home, I still have (BJJ, Kickboxing) training after work, so I don't go home after work, I head straight to training and then get home at 9pm, shower, eat then sleep, so I'm not getting very much sleep at all. My panda eyes are going to become permanent at this rate.
• At work we have cool letter opening machines, I'll need to grab videos of them in action at some point.
• Most of the people at work are Filipino, so that's all I hear all day, with a bit of Cantonese and Mandarin thrown in, then there's English too.
• We work in a distribution centre which is despite being on level 8, is still underground, so I don't see sunlight until lunch time, and if I've brought my lunch I don't see sunlight until I finish work. I feel like a vampire.
• If I'm opening letters and not sorting them then I can close my eyes and do it for a while, gotta get as much shut eye as possible!

I have no idea when this job will end but I'll continue to work the 5 days a week until it ends, and at this point I've heard another 2 or so weeks. No sleep and no play make David go something something...