JJ's new job
Getting a job here wasn't as straightforward as J had hoped quite a lot of them requiring 5 years residency and the levels of pay for many of them actually being quite poor! The image of Jersey as being for the rich is one thing but as a newcomer it apparently is not so easy. Anyway as is the way of things J suddenly had a crop of interviews and potential offers but best of the bunch was for a bakers in the central market. Initial concerns over the nature of the work have soon passed and J is now quite enjoying it ..., plus there is a ready supply of bread, buns, croissants, cakes ..., pretty much anything really as there is always more left at the end of the day than they can sell :-) Downside is all the bread based products could pile on pounds so a little moderation is a good thing.
We have also worked out why once outside of St. Helier there seem to be so few shops especially secondhand shops, bookshops and the like. Jersey residents it seems like nothing more than a car boot sale!! We actually happened across three last Sunday morning and now have some extra bits and pieces not only for the garden but some reading matter too!!
- Posted by Rob Luscombe on 05/06/2007.
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