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Employment history

My First Job

While i was in my final year 11 of technical colledge, i desperatly wanted to leave school... my dad said if i had a job, i could leave... So i started to look for work, where do i begin?? It was summertime, and there was a job advertised just down the road from where i lived... It was a small pub, and they wanted an apprentice chef... i thought it would be cool to learn how to cook, and i just wanted work, so i applied for it, as it turned out, i got the job... no more school!!! Boy was i wrong, i had another 3 years of school during the apprenticeship... what was i thinking??

I was 17 years old, and landed my first job, i couldnt beleive it... My first day of work, consisted of cleaning out and scrubbing down the coolroom, peeling 100 Kg of potatoes, peeling and cutting 3 pumpkins, tailing 10 kg box of beans, it was an insane amount of work to do.. and that was just in the morning ( 10am - 2pm ) but i was still there at 3:00 trying to finnish my jobs... my boss came in and said, go home and have a break and come in at 5pm... i was working split shifts, lunch and dinner...

over the next few weeks i started to get faster at my work and was learning new stuff everyday... every tuesday i had to peel 100 Kg of potatoes etc, because we had 300 people in for lunch every wednesday... in less than a month of working there, i was working faster, and my work load was increasing... I was working insane hours, almost 50 hours per week, and my pay was a fixed salary based on 38 hours per week... The average wage people were getting back then was $320 per week, my wage was $110 per week... I had to pay for my uniforms, school books, knives, and accomodation for when i was at school, and school fees... my knives alone cost $600 and it took months to save... i was stone broke all the time, and was working 50 hours per week... Every year my pay increased by $40... but i got a significant increase in my second year...

Cooking School

Wait a sec, you mean to tell me i have to goto school?? err, why did i leave school in the first place?? I attended school in "Block release", everyday for three weeks, there were 3 block releases per year... my first block release we had a massive class of 30 people... we studied food science, nutrition, cooking therory, practical work, food costing, menu planning, etc... school started at 8:00 am and went to 5:00pm or sometimes 6:00pm... some classess started at 7:00am and went through to 8:00pm... the morning was theory stuff, and everybody was almost asleep during the practical demonstaration class, it mustve that room, or our partying the night before... then from 1:00pm onwards we did cooking... We had huge amounts of stuff we had to cook, given a certain time frame... i think on the third day we did sauces, we had to make around 20 different sauces, everything from scratch ( Bones, meat trimmings, and Mirepoix, etc )... we used "Stocks" that we made on day 2, to use in the sauces... as you can tell, the cooking part was full on...

The Next block release

From the start of the second block release, there were only 15 people in the class... 50 percent of students had quit their jobs, and decided cooking wasnt for them... this was just the start of things to come, as in the third block release, we only had 10 people in the class... Most of the drop outs were within the first year... the second and third years you can expect everyone to be in the same class again in the other block releases...

Banfields Restaraunt

I got a transfer to Banfields Restaraunt.. This was the best career move i ever made, working there helped shaped my cooking career beyond description... i learnt massive amounts of 5 star cooking from the best chefs... i loved working there, and i worked there for many years... they also had a cinema inside the restaraunt, in which i got to see the lastest movies for free... Biggest highlight was when Mal Walden came in for dinner... Photo ( Mal Walden is shown in the ) bottom right...

Clock Cafe

I Worked here for a while... the biggest highlight was when Mick Doohan( photo ) came in for dinner after he won the Phillip Island Grand Prix... We had to lock the front door, there was a wall of people out the front wanting Autographs... Mick came in through the back door... The restaraunt was so noisy with big parties, however when Mick walked in, everything went silent... you could hear a pin drop..

Isle of White Hotel

My next job i worked at was the only Pub in Phillip Island, the Isle of White Hotel... I started in the busy summer season... This place packed people in, and from 6:00 there was already a huge crowed of people waiting to order... We were cooking for 400 people per night... as you can imagine this place was full on with a lot of pressure... While in my first week, the head chef was leaving a week later to take over another lease, of another busy kitchen in Tooradin..

Matt who had been working there for a while became the new head chef, and i was the second chef... Just us two, with two extra kitchen hands... The work was hard, but the pay sure made up for it.. i was earning $700 per week, which was my biggest salary ever... We also got looked after really well... We had meals included in our contract, and we received a slab of beer after work on a Saturday night... Plus free Entry into the Night Club... I lived quite a distance from work, so if i went to the night club on a Saturday night, the Manager gave me a Hotel room for the night... The working conditions was also the best...

The butcher who we get our meat from told us, that it takes him around 8 months for him to save the T-Bones for us during the Australian Motor Cycle GrandPrix|Heres a photo of the Phillip Island Race Track, we get around 300 T-Bones delivered on thursday with a huge amount of other meat.. which only lasted till Saturday... This pub is so busy during that week of of the Motor Cycle grand Prix... They have several Semi-trucks delivering beer... With a crowd of 2,000 outside drinking from special bar Marquees, and inside the pub, upstairs and downstairs, insane amount of people!!!

I worked there for a year and i was earning great money, however i didnt travel much and i wanted to move to the GoldCoast in Queensland... i just wanted to party and have a great time...

I Moved to Surfers Paradise on the GoldCoast

Surfers Paradise is rated in the top 5 worldwide for the biggest party place... Every street in Surfers Paradise has parties every night of the week, and we had massive pool parties... Ahh i wish i was there now... here are some night clubs there are tones of other night clubs, all in this same street... Although Shooters is probably the best one... Melbas has the best food in Surfers Paradise, and a great night life... i went there every night after work...

The GoldCoast has everything, great weather, the hottest chicks, beach, great night life, theme parks.. and of course the Indy 300|More Indy... the Indy Track is in the main streets of Surfers Paradise and Mainbeach... pulling in Huge crowds... and of course, whats the indy without Miss Indy??

The GoldCoast has a lot of Japanese Tourists, and this is where i met my Wife... We met at a bus stop in Surfers Paradise, we could only say 5 words in each others languages, although Masumi studied English at school but she couldnt speak English... We only communicated through an electronic dictionary... We flirted with each other a lot in the coffee shop and at lunch... We hooked up on that day...

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