Where I work (on the fifth floor)
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In the beginning of February 2007 I went on a training course in Sydney, Australia. I met up with a business acquaintance who introduced me to a business partner of his. When I returned home I sent the business partner my resume, and that of my husband. The company I worked for in Johannesburg had an office on Sydney, and I really wanted to work for them.
The first company contacted me a few weeks later with an offer of a contract position for either my husband or I, with a permanent role to possibly follow. My husband accepted the position. My Johannesburg manager had previously worked with the manager in the Sydney office of my current company and offered to act as a reference for me. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse.
My husband and I packed up our home. He left first and I followed six weeks later with our two young children, my son only having turned four in that same week. We arrived in Sydney with both of us having work.
And from that we gained permanent residence and citizenship. We have been back to South Africa three times in seven years for a total of six weeks.
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That’s a great story! The stars lined themselves up in your favor to make that move!
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Yes, it all worked out perfectly, thought it is a story worth sharing 🙂 (I’m always enjoying everyone else’s stories, thought I would share one too!)
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Thank you for sharing Vee. It’s always nice to know more about your life 🙂
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Thank you! I feel like I’m cheating if I post something that is not a poem, but I may start adding a few more here and there 🙂
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my father had a similar story. qualified as a dentist in Brisbane in 1939.came to London to practise but became a war correspondent for a leading Oz paper until 1945 and remained a journalist in UK and France until he died. never saw Oz again or took a tooth out in anger!
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It is hard being away from “home”, but I guess there are new opportunities 🙂
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This was like a dream come true, Vonita. I am happy you landed in Sydney, since this always seems like such a pleasant place in movies and in books. 🙂
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It is a wonderful place to be Robin, very fortunate to be here. It has its own problems as in property prices are very expensive and other traffic issues, overcrowding etc, but even so it is a blessing to be here. Glad you’ve seen the building I work in, I’m on the fourth floor and currently in my tenth year there, can’t believe it’s been so long xx
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