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Café Helder, a restaurant in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Candidate for two raspberry awards...


Smelling like drink at work in Ireland....


• "Your coworkers speak some English," said the manager at Mex Rock, Seville — but they didn't....


• "Don't work too hard" — a common Irish "fare-thee-well" ...


Moody Cool's, a farcical restaurant in Kilkenny Ireland...


Looking busy — the curse of restaurants...


• "About a movie" — kitchen banter in Ireland...


Ciao Bella Roma — Dublin Ireland, Summer 2001...


Kyteler's Inn — a brief employment for sub-minimum wage ...


Irish kitchens — worse than average, even....


A bakery job in Nijmegen, the Netherlands — September 2003 - January 2005...


Zuni, a small hotel's restaurant in Kilkenny Ireland


Bagel Village, Amsterdam — secret recipes...

• At an interview for a cleaning job, he asked about my education.... — The Netherlands, 2004


I started writing web-pages when I left the United States in May of 2000. That is why I also started writing about my experiences working at various jobs. These are stories about various working situations in The Netherlands, Spain, and Ireland.
• The kitchen is a small kingdom....


• "Boulangerie des Gourmets" — Dublin, Ireland, autumn 2001...


• Cleaning a few windows at an Irish hospital — few indeed....


Pushing a massive, ancient safe down the sidewalks of Berkeley, California...