Young bloke after work in or around Bayswater. Little help?

[Woz]

I'm after work, personally I figure there's no harm in mentioning that here. Sometimes you just never know your luck, right? That's the saying, isn't it? Well, here goes.

My story is this...

I'm 20 years old. Silly, but not stupid. Raised to work hard and enjoy doing just that. Currently doing furniture removals for a mob in Dandenong South, as I have been for almost two years now (December first, to be precise, 2004) and quite enjoying it, as weird as that may sound. It keeps me strong, I'm always active, always meeting new people and occassionally headed to a spot in the countryside where I haven't yet travelled. Sure, I lift couches, but as routine as that sounds, I enjoy it.

However, as I said, my timecard sits on the wall in Dandenong South. I've gotta be clocked on by 7am each morning, my travels beginning in Bayswater, about 20-30 minutes away. And that's in the mornings, before the afternoon chaos hits Stud Rd (occassionally even slowing down the Monash Freeway) which so often turns it into a 40 minute or more drive home. Not the most pleasant of trips to begin with. After 21 months, it becomes even more bothersome. Now, imagine trying to do it without a license. Yup, I've gotta hand my license in by the 24th of September, meaning I can either track down a pushbike or live life the way of the shoe. On foot.

For this reason, I've taken the week off work. Gotta find a new job, see. Too much travellin', see. So I've been looking round, here and there, and while wandering the streets of Bayswater this morning I thought of the forums.

Read on...

I want to work with cars. Damned if I know exactly what I want to do. Just want to work with cars. Preferably learning tricks and whatnot that can be applied to the '75 XB Fairmont that sits in my garage at this very moment in time. New cars interest me, not so much. But surely there's gotta be somewhere out there, especially with the amount of workshops and the like in and around Bayswater, that deals with the older cars. My main problem is, I don't know where to look. If I wanted to flip burgers, I'd be doing it by now. Swiping cards and loading trolleys, not a problem. Like I said, I can be silly at times, but I'm not stupid.

The two jobs I'm waiting to hear back about right now which interest me the most are as a runner doing the hard rubbish collections at a place I worked before I started doing the removals (fittest I've ever been, working there) and helping an old bloke out on a farm up Bendigo-way (tough stuff, but did it on school holidays years back and paid damn well). So there's not really a great deal of potential there, and I'm still not really looking at my XB with a whole lot more knowledge than I'm currently packing.

So if there's anyone on here, reading this, that run a workshop, or work at one that may be looking for someone who doesn't mind a bit of hard work and is more than willing to learn, please, let me know. Or let someone in charge know and get them to get ahold of me. I'm not expecting a whole lot, but I figure this joint's gotta be worth a shot. The dream would be to find a restorer of classics and uniques who's basically after an all-rounder. I mean, a bit of this or that would be good enough, but to be able to watch a completed car roll out the door and to have learnt a slice of various aspects of the build would be fantastic.

My XB is something I plan to work on for a great many years. I'm basically hoping to do as much of the work myself as possible. Not to save money, more for the experience and I guess, in a way, the pride. Oh, and as a young bloke, bragging rights are probably in there somewhere too. _2:

So if there's anyone out there who might fit the profile, is in the area (a little bit of travel isn't so bad, I can't be too picky) and is looking for someone to mould into the next 'Legend Of Street Machining' (or similar), let me know and I'm more than happy to pass on whatever info you may need.

Like I said, it can't hurt to try.