Jetting Educated

After leaving Auckland I headed up to an area called the Far North, a region of the country so remote that there is only one road leading there. My reason for travelling there was my first agricultural job: picking avocados for eight days on an orchard. I was pleased to have some employment as it took some time to find it. Having sent over 40 emails to farms all over the North Island, I received fewer than five responses. I was advised that e-mailing the same person more than once helps your chances here in New Zealand, so I did do a bit of repeat mailing and ended up lucky. Eventually I got a reply giving details of the job but warning that the same e-mail had been sent to many people even though there was one space- I rang right away, secured it and packed my bags. If you're going to climb a tree in order to make someone rich off avocados, you may as well appreciate the view The work was 400km away but thankfully I didn't have to eat in to my work profits with