The job hunt begins

I've just emailed my CV to a contact at a school in Perth. I'm amazed that I'm able to do this before we've even arrived. However, I fear this may bolster the case of those who like to describe Perth as a big country town. Having grown up in a small country town the 'everyone knows everyone' vibe does not appeal to me.

The Fella had a casual conversation with one of his Perth colleagues that resulted in one of those "Oh, my friend works at [insert name of fancy private boys school]" kind of moments. This led to me making a nervous phone call after some Hazelnut courage. I really hate those calls. I thought I would keep it quite general - I didn't want to ask for a job directly - and it's an understatement to say that working at a wealthy private school has never been a dream of mine. I was hoping for some general info about relief teaching in Perth and maybe some other contacts.

Anyway, the contact assured me that there is lots of work around and that she would also pass my CV on to her "first ex-husband" (don't worry she was gracious enough to share a giggle with me about this phrase) who is the head of English at [insert name of WA's top selective public school]. Here the general conversation ceased because she seemed confident that between those two schools I would have plenty of work, so no more need for discussion, right? Did I mention that both of these schools are on the train line from Freo... How's my luck?