About Us
Changing my job was a health decision, when asked by my naturapath the hard hitting question “do you enjoy your work?” I had to be honest and answer no, absolutely not! I felt no spice or purpose as an electrician, very mundane didn’t feel like I was getting the most out of myself. In my 20s I had a lot of chronic pain and inflammation throughout my body. With all the surgeries, remedies, handwork, appointments, I had to deal with the situation myself and start fresh. Being unhappy in my work seemed to be the biggest red flag.
Some people are blessed early in their lives about what they are passionate about, other than sports there wasn’t much else I was interesting in. Unless you count brunch with your loved ones talking nonsense, but you can’t make a career out of that.
Other than all the different home coffee machines I had at home I had never made a coffee in my life. true story: around the time covid came around I was doing an electrical job for my local cafe owner, he would help me run the cable so it would save him some cash; and his words were “there’s not enough money you could pay me to do this job. I put down my pliers pulled my head out from the spider raided roof space and said to him, I’ll work for you Tommorow…for free. He took that offer of course and a year on that being the funnest/challenging years of my life with Melbourne being all locked up and coffee being the only way people could get their fix of human connection, the things I learnt that year was how to run a cafe, and the important of a smile, laugh and community.
i had never been so sure in my life about what I wanted to do, but I had to make it my own. Working for minimum hospitality wage, a mortgage, I really didn’t have much money to start. But the dream must go own. I had to start somewhere and somewhere was an empty horse trailer I bought on marketplace for $3500.
This is an ongoing journey and have been documenting it via social media as best I can and will continue to do so.
BUT where to next? The answer is… I don’t know, and that’s what excites me the most. I took the leap of faith to quit my electrical job, work for minimum wage into 6 months no wage and then into building debt without knowing the outcome, base on a simple dream and a gut feel. And it has brought me to this insane beach side location.
