My life as a Fiancé, blogger, bartender, actor and a daytrader in Auckland.
My life as a Fiancé, blogger, bartender, actor and a daytrader in Auckland.
Been settled in Auckland for about 3 weeks now, and it has been quite the adventure!
For a bit over a year I’ve been studying trading, technical analysis and money management.
Forex, stocks, indices, gold and oil is what I trade on a daily basis.
Not a very social job, but it gives me the freedom to travel and try new things.
For many years I’ve been diving into new construction jobs in Sweden, Norway or even Australia.
Do what I consider myself to be best at, sheet metal roofing.
Always felt like this is what I have to aim for, work myself up the “ladder” in the company, making myself worth a lot to make more money and be irreplaceable.
There are jobs all over the world within construction business, and if you can master one trade with in the business you can make great money and get more freedom, but of course you might have to move your ass.
I came to that point where I believed that it was impossible to make more money as a “normal” sheet metal roofer.
I could not in any way make more money or get more freedom where I were.
But there I realized that this was the end, I would have to open up a company and work my ass off for years to be able to
become more successful and make more money in this business.
That’s when I felt I wanted to get out of this kind of work and throw myself into something completely new!
Now when looking for work in Auckland, I have decided to never ever be someone I’m not, in my resume, over the phone or in real life.
That means I got nothing false to prove, if they hire me, they hire me because they like me, they like my words, spoken or written and they like the presence of me.
I don’t want to pretend to be someone I’m not to be able to get work or to get closer to my success.
Time to try to get work in just being myself, of course I am not selling myself short.
The skills I have that I wrote in my resume etc
– I am happy
– Problem solver
– Leadership
– MMA
– Surfing
– Yoga
– DJ
My mission is to get more people skills in local experience and professionalism.
Too have a job where I meet new people every day, learn how to sell, practice my English and practice my social skills.
Completely turn the page and throw myself into the zone of being uncomfortable.
All my travelings have taught me how to handle some uncomfortable situation in every day life, which
is my most valued lesson I feel life have given me.
Now I want to learn more of it, but in a professional manner.
I got my IRD (Taxnumber) and I opened a bank account with ANZ.
My idea was to start working in a bar or restaurant, or something in sales.
The first job I applied to was one of these recruitment companies with in hospitality and tourism business.
This company offered a day course in how to serve food and drinks in a restaurant, how to carry 3 plates and a bit about how to talk to customers.
What a great opportunity!
If I got a job with this company and gained some experience so I could later on apply at a bar or restaurant I actually like, and feeling comfortable about it.
Got a few jobs with this company, still do.
My first two assignments were working as a bartender at Ellerslie race course for BMW and Auckland cup.
They throw you behind the bar knowing that you have no experience at all, I at least have some from working in a few bars in south east Asia.
You are taking care of making drinks, serving beers, washing, making sure everything is prepared to be able to make whatever drink request the customers may ask for, and of course you have to learn how to work the cash till and how to set up tabs.
When it’s very busy you got to be able to keep calm and solve the problem or be confident enough to get help to solve it.
This company sends me text messages about work, and I just need to apply YES or NO.
What the work will be I will know when I get there.
Last week I got send to North shore, the only thing I knew was the address, time and that it was some kind of catering.
Got there and the “boss” was there unloading the food, drinks and cutlery in this big 3 floor mansion!
She told me that one more will come to help me, there are notes in the boxes, set up the glasses and good luck.
I assumed that the person that would come would be some kind of supervisor, showing me how everything works and what this party was all about.
5 different platters of snacks, 2 hot meals and then many different drinks.
Making sure people had drinks and that the was getting served food all the time.
They were a very wealthy couple and expected great work to be done here.
The customers assumed I had tons of experience and been working for the catering company for a long time….
The girl that arrived to help out to make this cocktail party a great one, had zero experience.
So I ended up to take charge and make everything happened, based on the small amount of bartender experience I have, then I just had to improvise and be confident enough to put on a great show.
We had great fun doing this, and it is so good for one and other to get thrown in to these situations and handle it!
I also applied to a Talent and model agency, which finds me work within modeling, movies or commercials.
I just showed up with my happy spirit , proper dressed and well shaved.
That was enough to get me on board and I got my first assignment 4 days after!
I was going to be an extra at a movie shoot of the movie getting released next year “Jean”.
They also gave me an address and told me to be there at a certain time!
I went there and got welcomed by the crew with buffé breakfast.
I didn’t received any information at all from my bosses there, so I chatted away with the other people working there, and they could share some great stuff to me to feel more comfortable over the situation.
I have only done this once, and that was in India for a Bollywood movie 2009, I was as confused at that time I remember, but extremely excited!
After a few hours they send me to the makeup room, gave me a haircut and told me I was going to be an Australian airways man, a pilot.
After that they sent me to get dressed up with the pilot outfit!
It was such an incredible experience, to be so lost, so excited and realizing that you are going to be in a big movie.
After 5 hours they send me up on “stage”, briefly told me and this other guy what was going to happen.
But when the camera rolls it’s all about improvise and try to live the feelings they told us that scene was all about.
All so new, all so awesome.
So much fun working with this, meeting a lot of people and learn new things all day long!
Now gaining some skills and experience within this I felt like I wanted to get a bartender job at a busy bar, where I love the music and the vibe.
I googled “Best house and techno club in Auckland”, and after some research I found Ink bar, a busy place at the busy K road!
I emailed the owner of the place, the email with the title “Tech The House”.
A few days later the owner got back to me and wondered when I could start working!
Got super stoked to give this a try!
I popped up at 9pm at the bar.
A pretty small place, but with two different dance floors and a “outdoor” patio.
Told the owner that I’ve just worked in a few bars pouring beers, but show me how it’s done and I’ll figure it out!
The music there gets delivered by maybe New Zealands top house/techno DJ’s.
Great progressive stuff and a great vibe in this place, feels like the most of the people here knows each other.
Crack open beers, mixing spirits and pouring shoots might not be a difficult thing to do, but when you add drinks you never heard about before, pumping music, stress and New Zealand accent it makes everything way harder!
But if you can just keep your calm and laugh and be confident about your mistakes you’ll be alright!
I managed to get the most of everything right in all of this, so when the night was over I felt pretty proud over myself to be able to just jump in as I did, without any real professional experience behind a busy bar in a new country without any local knowledge of drinks or people.
But I did good!
The day after went even better!
To learn something new every day is what I live for!
I’m hooked on learning stuff! Love it.
One point why I also choose this kind of bar with this kind of music is also because after working there for a while, I might be able to throw in some beats as a DJ myself!
Having a job where I interact with people the whole time is for sure my thing right now!
Love it.
When both me and Erin have our days off we go for a day trip to one of the beaches close by Auckland.
For the surf of course!
Pretty awesome to have like 40 minutes to really nice beaches and very good surf, PIHA is one of them!
Tomorrow we are off to Bethells beach!
Auckland is great!
Feels great
