Job Search Part 4: Hole in the wall, no toilet.

It is a well known fact that the best coffee in Melbourne is to be found in the many dark alleys and lane ways in the city.

Melbournians believe that coffee can only be enjoyed if you drink it from a second hand tea cup sitting on a milk crate, between a rubbish dumpster and some stencil art.

After answering yet another ad on Seek.com, I was invited to do a trial at a cafe with no fixed address, but was told I could find it if I turned left at the end of Hardware Lane and walked for approx. five minutes, or until I passed a huge graffitied recycling bin.

Due to the lack of storage space, I was advised not to bring a bag.

Although everyone was very friendly, their lack of protocol worried me. If I were to take the job, there was no where to put the Policies and Procedures Manual. If I wanted to go to the toilet I would have to walk down another alley and up a flight of stairs, to a bathroom shared with some squatters in the building next door.

And because there was no room for a dish pig, I would have to wash the dishes myself.

Horrified, I declined the job offer ( twelve dollars cash in hand) and drowned my sorrows in a tiny bar in an alley just off Meyers Place, between a rubbish dumpster and some stencil art.