I have worked as a cleaner in Australia for nearly one and half year. Since I started working, nothing special happened to me in my career. In order to gain new experience as a kitchen hand, one day I went to a area which is close to my new house and where there are quite bit of restaurants for students.
As soon as I got there, I handed in my resume to a Turkish kebab shop which is named by its owner's name. A courteous man, who is same age as my father and was dressed in a black tee and pants-besides, put a dark beret on, welcomed me and was keen on hiring me because of my nationality. After a couple of hours, I was called by the man, then hired as a kitchen hand. I was thrilled that the first restaurant I applied for took on me. The man told me to work there for a week training with no pay but with a free lunch. I of course agreed and began.
The first couple of days passed as I learned how to make kebab and serve meals to customers. Making kebab was much easier than I thought. In that time, I had plenty of free time as well as chance to talk to someone English. To communicate to the staff in there, I would ask the boss anything such as Turkish custom and kebab. One day as usual I asked him about how much whole kebab meal cost. I had no hidden thought behind this question, but the man suspiciously looked at me and said nothing. He might have thought I wanted to get to know his business. Since then, he had became very cautious. At third day with the restaurant, he said to me to work twice a week until the restaurants is closed. It was very hard to me because of my main cleaner job. Next day, I explained, actually lied, him that I found an another cleaning job, so that I am unable to work until late in the restaurant. At first, he got it fine and we re-arranged my work time. But after few minutes, he changed his mind saying he can't let me work there further. As he explained, if he is caught by immigration or any authorities, he would get into trouble. But I got his message differently, no one runs business in Australia legally, they all break the rule to make money. As I suspected, he wanted to eliminate me because of some question that I asked. He might have been afraid of losing his business privacy to someone else like me.
This my second work experience in Australia. Lol. In conclusion, I learned not to rush to know more about something new I just started but learn gradually.