Nicks life can get busy. He recently published his first comic, releasing and selling it at the Soup Festival. He is now chatting to people about this being sold at a bookstall at the Victoria Market.
Also, a while ago Nick started a new job selling the Big Issue. A perfect job for someone who is friendly, funny, chatty and welcoming. Nick has slotted into both the Big Issue and local community on the town Hall corner in Brunswick incredibly well. He has met and knows a whole lot of new people and has reconnected with an old mate who he is meeting, with others, regularly at a community lunch. He isn’t just spending time with people in the street, it is also with his Big Issues crew events. How good is that, lunch, meeting people at his corner, his big issues crew, new people to be with because of his comic sales; at least 4 new places where Nicks belongs, is liked and has mates. It took Nick a while to find things that he wanted to connect to and stick with. Nick definitely tried a few things that didn’t work, but what did work was continuing to have a go and finding opportunities that made sense in terms of who is, a great bloke who likes people and who has a talent for telling jokes and writing them down.
One of the things that is great about his job with the Big Issue is that when Nick has missed a week of selling the magazine and people, that’s more than one, bump into us they ask where Nick was because they missed seeing him. That’s great, because one of the ways of knowing you belong somewhere is when people miss you when you aren’t there.
