MYSTIC MEG HAVE YOU FORESAKEN ME???
The future, it seems, is proving to be a capricious mistress. It has been a story of compromise and broken dreams and near misses much of which has been outside of my control.
To explain more coherently I was and have been applying to all and sundry looking for work as a winemaker. This year, 5 years on from my graduation I wish to go full time in a assistant winemakers position. I have done the hard yards and can proudly say I know my onions.
Alas my own country's industry is tiny and the chances and the approaches I have made to all the known operations mustered nothing. The alternative was to go back on the road one more time and head off to the southern hemisphere. I prefer NZ then Australia with S. Africa and Latin America being non runners based on the fact that financialy there was no profit to be made.
NZ changed there entry laws and tightened up against the influx of Johnny Foreigner, Australia has been that way too for years. The contact that promised me a position (in Oz) was not as earnest as they made out so that also did not come to pass. I consoled myself that I could repeat last summers successes by returning to Tenerife and then follow onb in the UK or Germany and salvage at least the 2 vintages a year I normally do.
This week I have been chasing agian the employers and it looks like I may just get to go to Tenerife again but with a Spanish winemaker in situ which will possibly downgrade my influence. The UK job is dragging its' heels but there is plenty of time before I worry that this too slips away.
In adjunct to all this I apply time and again to the US and NZ more in hope than certainty. I have had some interest but nothing concrete.
I am usually positive and will try and remain so - something is better than nothing and in present times when so many have so little and cutbacks the world over means we have to take what is there even if it is meagre I am aware this is being more than a little diva esque.
I am a Thursday's child and we have far to go. Don't I know it.....
The future, it seems, is proving to be a capricious mistress. It has been a story of compromise and broken dreams and near misses much of which has been outside of my control.
To explain more coherently I was and have been applying to all and sundry looking for work as a winemaker. This year, 5 years on from my graduation I wish to go full time in a assistant winemakers position. I have done the hard yards and can proudly say I know my onions.
Alas my own country's industry is tiny and the chances and the approaches I have made to all the known operations mustered nothing. The alternative was to go back on the road one more time and head off to the southern hemisphere. I prefer NZ then Australia with S. Africa and Latin America being non runners based on the fact that financialy there was no profit to be made.
NZ changed there entry laws and tightened up against the influx of Johnny Foreigner, Australia has been that way too for years. The contact that promised me a position (in Oz) was not as earnest as they made out so that also did not come to pass. I consoled myself that I could repeat last summers successes by returning to Tenerife and then follow onb in the UK or Germany and salvage at least the 2 vintages a year I normally do.
This week I have been chasing agian the employers and it looks like I may just get to go to Tenerife again but with a Spanish winemaker in situ which will possibly downgrade my influence. The UK job is dragging its' heels but there is plenty of time before I worry that this too slips away.
In adjunct to all this I apply time and again to the US and NZ more in hope than certainty. I have had some interest but nothing concrete.
I am usually positive and will try and remain so - something is better than nothing and in present times when so many have so little and cutbacks the world over means we have to take what is there even if it is meagre I am aware this is being more than a little diva esque.
I am a Thursday's child and we have far to go. Don't I know it.....
kay:
Good luck!