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.