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I have had so many jobs in my life. I guess I get bored easily, and move on. As I said in my Lifestyle section, I believe that life is all about experience and adventure. A job is merely a means to provide the money to enjoy the life you want to lead. However, I have had a few really good jobs since moving to Australia. Before my break-up with my wife, I worked for three years for Jenny Jones Rugs in Claremont, here in Perth. Three years! After two years there it became the longest job I had ever had in my life! I guess that is testament to the people I worked for and with. However, after our break-up I decided it was time for a change, and left Jenny Jones Rugs in April 2006 to begin a new career as a mine dump truck driver. I moved out to Kalgoorlie for six months, where I became a trainee driver in the SuperPit gold mine, and then when the house in Wellard was finished I moved back to Perth. For the last year I have worked at a remote gold mine way up north in WA, near Broome. The work is done on a fly-in fly-out basis, which means I flew up there for a two week period, working 7 day shifts and 7 night shifts, then flew back home for a week off. It is a pretty unusual lifestyle, and the money is great, but working away tends to have an impact on your social life. And so, at Christmas I resigned from the mining lifestyle, and am now back in the city, back at Jenny Jones Rugs, which is great. Jenny and Dennis are awesome people, and when I approached them with my #life for sale# idea, Jenny loved it. So, as part of the whole package, there is a job included too at Jenny Jones Rugs. The job is as a rug store assistant, and responsibilities include dealing with customer enquiries, delivery and collection of rugs from customer homes, store presentation, coffee making, anything and everything really! It's a great job, nice place, and good people. The job would really only be suitable for someone who is physically capable of moving the rugs around, as some of the work can be quite heavy. an initial two-week trial period to the new owner of my life. If this is successful, this will then become a three month trial period, and finally, a full time position. Thanks to you both, you are great friends. Alternatively, I am quite happy to offer any advice and assistance if the new owner is interested into getting into the booming WA mining and resources industry. The money is very good, and they are crying out for qualified people, but there are also opportunities for new starters too. Obviously I can make no guarantees in this area, but can offer plenty of practical advice gained from personal experience. If neither of these possibilities is of interest, then there is plenty of other work available in Perth. Because of the booming resources sector, many people are leaving more traditional jobs to chase the high wages that mining offers, and thus there are desperate labour shortages in almost all areas of employment, as detailed in the following two news articles:- The West Australian - WA Jobs The West Australian - Labour Shortage Further job seeking information can be found here:- www.seek.com.au www.jobsjobsjobs.com.au Also included - an online business! A few years ago, while working for Jenny Jones Rugs, I did an online and telephone-based correspondence course in internet business and marketing. One fact that was very clear from the course I did was that one of the best products to sell on the internet is information, as that is what a huge amount of people using the internet are looking for. Information is such a great product, as it only has to be created once, as an article, a book, a video, a course, or whatever format suits. Once it is created it can be sold over and over again for very little further effort. If that information can also be delivered digitally over the internet, by automated systems, it is cost-free and effort-free to distribute too. The internet marketing course was run by The Internet Marketing Centre, which can be found at www.MarketingTips.com. They have some amazing and eye-opening products and courses. As part of the course I did I received a copy of their brilliant "Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business On The Internet". I guess this package helped me a bit in the creation of this, which has received a fair amount of praise. Although I also have to give a huge amount of credit to my brilliant web designer Melanie. This course is still in my house, and is included as part of my auction:- 
Anyway, my studies caused me to look at my interests and hobbies, as well as what people search for on the internet. One of my passions is video editing, and I decided to write an information book on turning your raw video footage into interesting, well-edited movie masterpieces! And the website that developed from that was, and still is, www.BetterMovieMaking.com. The main page is a sales page for the book itself, "The Complete Guide To Better Movie Making". Alongside the sales page is a movie gallery, a monthly newsletter and a blog. The username and password for the movie gallery are:- username: moviemaker password: director I have let the website slip a bit, and haven't really updated it for about eight months, but every now and then I get an email to say that another payment of $47 has been made to me, which is nice. It all works automatically, so if someone decides to make a purchase they can do so, they make a payment that is paid to me automatically, and then they get sent to a download page where they can download their purchase, all withoout any effort from me. This only happens very occasionally though, as I have not really made any marketing efforts for a long time. This extra item is included as part of my life, and is a complete, online business, which is currently operating, with some (fairly limited) success. There are no guarantees about how well you could do with it if you were interested in putting in some effort, but it is there for the new owner of my life. Use it, sell it, ignore it and forget about it - it's your choice if you win the auction. | | ||||||||||||||
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