Well, I'm happy to report that after waiting a couple of months I was contacted by STA Travel USA about a job opportunity here. It's working as part of their call centre, taking incoming calls from customers to organise their (mostly overseas) travel plans. It's almost exactly the same job as I had back in Australia except this time I'll be working from home. Just waiting for the paperwork to come through to make it official!
I need to get a phone line installed in the house and unfortunately I can't use my laptop because the system isn't compatible with Macs. But the good news is they will organise a desktop computer for me, and will also reimburse me the cost of having the phone line each month.
The pay is not fantastic, but it's a sales job. This means if I am able to build my sales up then I will make a little extra money through commission. Not sure how easy it will be straight off the bat, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Back home it took about 6 months to build up my sales figures and find some repeat customers but I'm hoping the call centre scenario will be a little different. I figure I've travelled around a bit, have some good customer service skills, have experience in the job already and have an accent. Hopefully I'll be able to earn enough to cover the bills, food and do a bit of travel as well. We shall see.
My training starts in early January and they are flying me out to Phoenix for two weeks. I'm excited that I get to see another part of the country, and also that I will get to meet some new people. I've been looking forward to working for STA in another country pretty much every since my first day of training five years ago (can still remember our training saying how he had worked in Manchester and London and thinking how cool it would be to work overseas for the same company).
Bring on the 7th January!!
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