On Monday and Tuesday mornings each week, I worked at a hospitality TAFE in the city. This place was a professional training institute made up of five buildings, offering a wide range of courses such as baking, cooking, waiter and waitress training, and barista courses, along with numerous classrooms. After working there for four hours a day, I was able to rest relatively well in the afternoon. From Wednesday to Sunday, I worked full-time at an Italian restaurant. My schedule

A few years ago, I was assigned a morning shift at a hospitality TAFE in the city on a Sunday. I was told to arrive by 7:30 a.m., so I left home around 6:30. I expected to reach Box Hill Station by about 6:45, and since the train (called a “train” here, though it’s more like a subway) would take about 30 minutes, I thought I would arrive on time without any problem. But to my surprise, perhaps because it was Sunday, the first train was not scheduled to arrive until 7:30 a.m.

I joined a non-life insurance company in Korea in October 1981 and worked there as an office employee for 16 years and 3 months, until January 1998. After leaving the company, I worked for seven years as an insurance broker before immigrating to Australia. In total, I changed my workplace only twice in about 23 years. After arriving in Australia, I worked 9 years and 10 months as a kitchen hand in an Italian restaurant, 8 months as a kitchen hand at ANZ Bank, and I am current