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I come back this post... and now I am not quite sure where to continue. I guess I must try to cover my activities generally over the past 2 years in a few sentences (because I don't wish to ramble on forever). Since high school, I have been involved heavily in the hospitality industry as an apprentice baker and pastry chef, first at Woolworths for a few months and then to my current job in wholesale at Abe & Gizelles Patisserie in North Ryde. I have come to realise that work in the food industry is a much more demanding job than first I anticipated. That's not to say the actual workload itself is extreme, rather the hours. In my past roughly year and a half at the wholesale where I currently work, my hours have ranged anything from my regular shift of 9 to 5 (like most regular folk) to as extreme as 9am to 1 am the following morning. Of course I am being payed properly for such ridiculous overtime and deservedly so, but it has slowly sunk in for me that this is a practice that does not do my body any good. To begin with, my health was not fabulous even 2 years ago when I finished high school and has deteriorated steadily over the intervening period. Therefore I have decided that I will take a break from this industry starting this coming year, so long as I can find a part time job to move into with which to sustain myself. In the following year or so, I intend to focus heavily on getting myself back into shape, as I have also come to the realization that there are certain hereditary conditions I risk later on in life due to poor health, not least of which is type 2 diabetes, and as far as I am concerned, the sooner I deal with the problem of improving my health, the better off I will be in the long run. I also intend to use some of the free time created by this lack of work to retrain my musical competencies and possibly acquire some new ones (such as some actual theory training). I am sorry you had to put up with 2 very long winded and formal sounding posts, but I thought it best that I write it down properly and formally just to finalize it in my own mind and also to indicate to my friends how serious and determined I am about doing this. So when will this long speech be over... well it is.
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